Ubisoft has reportedly cancelled a multiplayer Assassin’s Creed project. The spin-off, known as AC League, originally started as a DLC for Assassin’s Creed Shadows before growing into a much more ambitious project.
The report comes from French outlet Origami, which claims the information was shared by sources within Ubisoft Annecy. This studio has spent years trying to bring multiplayer back to the Assassin’s Creed franchise and reportedly learned about the cancellation only in recent weeks.
AC League was designed as a four-player cooperative experience, with each player controlling a different Assassin. Players would have worked together to complete shared objectives, possibly set in the same feudal Japan setting planned for Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
A Multiplayer Project That Grew Beyond Its Original Scope
According to the sources, AC League slowly evolved into something much larger than first planned. What began as an add-on became a full research and development project, meant to test how multiplayer features could be properly reintroduced into the Assassin’s Creed series.
The goal was to rebuild the franchise’s multiplayer identity after years of single-player focus, using cooperation as the core gameplay pillar.
The cancellation reportedly happened following the creation of Vantage Studios. Ubisoft Annecy was preparing to run alpha tests in May and was waiting for final approval from management, but internal restructuring is said to have disrupted those plans entirely.
A small team at Ubisoft Annecy is expected to continue working on some of the multiplayer ideas, suggesting Ubisoft has not fully abandoned the concept. However, most of the original development team currently appears to be without an assigned project.
In other news, Ubisoft announced a massive internal restructuring and cost-cutting plan that is expected to result in thousands of job losses by 2028.
