Ubisoft has canceled an Assassin’s Creed game codenamed League as part of the French publisher’s “creative reset”. The news was confirmed by Origami via testimonies of half a dozen Ubisoft employees.
The latest cancellation is not part of the 6 other projects previously announced at the end of January by Ubisoft. League was supposed to be a multiplayer cooperative game that would allow four assassins to join forces, likely in feudal Japan, the same setting as Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
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League started as a potential DLC for Assassin’s Creed Shadows. It was initially intended to close the season pass and offer a series of scripted missions. Before its cancellation, the team behind the development had swelled to 85 people.
According to reports, the management of Ubisoft Annecy started questioning the status of Assassin’s Creed Shadows of League as an expansion in the past year because of its time-consuming nature. Several alternative suggestions were presented, and one of them was finding “a more traditional Assassin’s Creed game already in development within the group and grafting the accumulated multiplayer expertise onto it,” according to Origami.
The other suggestion was to reduce the scope of League to a “small” standalone cooperative Assassin’s Creed using fragments of Assassin’s Creed Shadows open world. The second suggestion was eventually favored by Annecy. Before the cancellation, an invite-only play session was planned for May 2026 to test the alpha.
The next quarterly earnings report from Ubisoft is expected to happen on February 12, the same day that the three-day strike called by the STJV, Solidaires Informatiques, CGT, CFE-CGC, and Printemps Écologique unions will conclude.
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