Assassin’s Creed game set in post-Civil War United States reportedly canceled in 2024

Ubisoft decided to cancel an Assassin’s Creed game set shortly after the U.S. Civil War, a report by Stephen Totilo says based on statements by several former and current employees. The final decision to axe the project came last year following the controversy around the reveal of Yasuke as one of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ two protagonists. The current political climate in the U.S. was another factor that worried executives.

The game would have featured a liberated slave, who gets recruited by the assassins to combat the rising Ku Klux Klan in the American South.

The people speaking to Totilo gave the impression that the team working on the title was happy with its progress and the order to halt work came from above.

Despite the controversy surrounding Yasuke, Assassin’s Creed Shadows turned out to be a very much needed commercial success for Ubisoft when it launched earlier in 2025, giving the ailing company some breathing room in its struggle for survival.

Ubisoft and Tencent recently revealed Vantage Studios, a co-owned venture that will handle the creation of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six games in the future while Ubisoft retains all rights to the IP.

As far as we know, the next mainline Assassin’s Creed game is the previously teased Hexen, a title set during the religious conflicts in the Holy Roman Empire.

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