Ubisoft Reportedly Cancelled A 19th Century Post-American Civil War Era Assassin's Creed Game Last Year

According to a new report from Stephen Totilo at Game File (paywalled) , Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game in 2024 that would have been set in the 19th century, specifically in a post-American Civil War era setting. Players would have taken on the role of a Black man who had been enslaved in the American South before the war, now living in the western regions of the country, looking to start a new life.

That is, until you would have been recruited by the Order of Assassins and sent back to the American South to face a growing Templar threat, which would have, according to Totilo's report, seen your character " confront the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan ."

Totilo's report comes from a mix of five current and former Ubisoft employees who all spoke under anonymity, who claim th