[Rumor] Assassin’s Creed Post Civil War Title Cancelled By Ubisoft

Game File reports from numerous sources within Ubisoft indicate that an Assassin’s Creed title was canceled earlier this year, which would have seen players return to North America after the Civil War during the Reconstruction period of the 1860s.

Speaking with various Ubisoft employees, the game would have seen us take on a formerly enslaved Black person who is recruited by the Assassin’s order to confront the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the South.

Unfortunately, the game won’t see the light of day, at least not anytime soon. Sources indicate that word came down from Paris that the game is no longer in development, citing two main reasons for its cancellation.

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The first reason is the backlash the studio received for Yasuke, a historical black man who became a retainer for Nobunaga Oda. Yasuke is one of two protagonists from last year’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which Ubisoft has said is the second-highest-selling day-1 Assassin’s Creed and the highest-selling game of 2025 so far.

It’s interesting that Ubisoft would be worried about introducing another black protagonist, seeing as how Shadows was so successful despite the backlash.

The second reason provided is that the political climate in the United States of America is becoming increasingly tense. One source says, “Too political in a country too unstable, to make it short.”

It does beg the question of who exactly Ubisoft is worried about offending.

[Source – Game File via Stephen Totilo]