Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Cancelled Alongside Five Unannounced Ubisoft Games

Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake has finally ended its tumultuous and long-running development, which is now the subject of . In a major organisational and portfolio reset, Ubisoft announced it was cancelling the remake as well as five other unannounced games; this is part of ‘the company will distribute its franchises among five new business units’. A 2026 release of The Prince Of Persia SandSofTime remake was scheduled to be released but Ubisoft said it did not reach the level of quality that he wanted.

A statement in a press release confirmed the game cancellations by Ubisoft confirms that it is restructuring its plan for games. It has cancelled six in-development projects including the Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake, four unannounced games with three new IPs and a mobile title.

In the official Prince of Persia account on X, it said that “it will take more time and investment to continue work on the remake.”

It’s the hard decision to stop development on Prince of Persia The Sands of Time Remake,’ said. This is a very disappointing thing we know about . It has a huge meaning for fans and for the teams that played on it,’ Ubisoft said in.

While the project was a real-life success, “we didn’t get to the level of quality you deserve and continued would have taken more time and investment than we could afford. But and we didn’t want to release something that was short of what The Sands of Time embodied. Paraphrast.

Ubisoft confirmed that while the project was cancelled, “the company is not stepping away from the Prince of Persia franchise “Prince of persis as a universe and whose legacy remains deeply important to us” the company said.

Prince of Persia’s Troubled Development

The revocation follows a long and troubled development cycle that saw Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake change hands from Ubisoft Pune and Mumbai to UBiSoft Montreal in 2022. The game was first announced at Ubisoft Forward in 2020 with a trailer, and released on 2021.

A June 2024 Ubisoft confirmed the game was to be in full production and will release by a second-generation , with its launch date of 2026. Developer said last year the remake was ‘deep’ in development, describing it as being “deep” in its use of . A sequel to the Prince of Persia Sands of Time was scheduled to be released before April 2026, as it remade in its title.

Other Cancelled Ubisoft Projects

Ubisoft has not specified other cancelled projects. Among the uncanceled games is a mobile title, probably Assassin’s Creed Jade. In 2022 it was announced that there would be no official word on its release window for the mobile Assassin’s Creed title, but said nothing about this.

Insider Gaming reports that another fucky project at Ubisoft, Beyond Good & Evil 2, has survived the latest round of cancellations. The game has no release date, but does not have a launch date after years of development for .

Ubisoft also delayed seven games as part of its new three-year portfolio. A delayed title is One of these dubbed games, which was originally intended for FY 2026 and has since been extended back to FY 227. The company confirmed that it had received the unannounced title as one of the titles on its schedules. This could be Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag remake of this game, which was reported to launch in 2026 as the next big hit for .

Details of the release pipeline for its largest franchises have not been released by Ubisoft, which hasn’t disclosed details. The French company, after releasing Assassin’s Creed Shadows in May 2025, said it was delaying some of its “biggest productions” to allow for more development time and create “best conditions for success”. Those projects are likely to be the next game series of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six games.

The latest delay will likely push the projects further back, according to . The Assassin’s Creed game, based on the mainline series of games (along with its sequel), Angry’S CreEd Hexe, does not have a confirmed release window. The announcement was made at Ubisoft Forward in 2022 of its . Ubisoft has yet to release the next Far Cry game, but it is not revealing what that far cry will be.