Ubisoft Reportedly Cancels Co-Op Multiplayer Assassins Creed Game

Ubisoft has reportedly cancelled a multiplayer, co-op Assassin’s Creed game as part of restructuring efforts at the company. The game, codenamed Assassin’s Creed League, was being developed at Ubisoft’S Annecy team and was closed recently after it was shut down. The Assassin’s Creed title was not one of the six other cancelled projects Ubisoft confirmed last month, according to an article published in French outlet Origami on Thursday.

Origami said Assassin’s Creed League was a cooperative game that would have allowed up to four assassins to join together in what may be the feudal Japan setting of last year’s ‘Assassin’ and CreEd Shadows’, which has been described by Origgami. The report said the Ubisoft Annecy team was told about the cancellation “last week” after citing at least 12 employees of U.S. companies. One of the studio’s projects was AC League, one of several upcoming projects.

AC League Reportedly Began as AC Shadows DLC

Specifically, the report suggests that the co-op AC title was an early DLC of “Assassin’s Creed Shadow” in Assassin’s Clash. The game was reportedly planned as the season pass end of it with scripted co-op missions, supporting up to four players.

In the series, it said Assassin’s Creed League would have also been “an important multiplayer co-op foundation for future games” as well as being used as a basis for later games. Ubisoft Annecy has been known for working on the multiplayer components of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Black Flag and Unity as well as Splinter Cell.

The original DLC to Shadows (DLC- Shadow) game, reportedly became a standalone co-op game with fewer scope that would have used parts of the open world found in AC Shadow’s. Ubisoft Annecy was slated to launch an invitational alpha playtest session for the game in May 2026, according to the report.

It has been reported that the project was cancelled last week by Vantage Studios, the subsidiary of Ubisoft which operates the company’s three largest franchises including Assassin’S Creed. It is part of company-wide restructuring announced in January that the cancellation comes as has been canceled.

The co-op Assassin’s Creed title reportedly began as a DLC for AC Shadows
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Ubisoft Restructuring

A statement by the French company last month proclaimed its “major reset” and said it was creating five ‘creative houses’ to operate as fully integrated business units handling end-to–end game production and publishing for its many franchises. The October 2025 launch of Vantage is one of the most creative units that has been involved in Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six games.

As part of its overhaul, Ubisoft also announced it was resetting its portfolio for future games. The firm said that it was’cancelling’ six in-development projects, such as Prince of Persia Sands of Time remake and had seven more games delayed — including one which could be the rumoured Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag remake (which is also known as “The Game”).

In the aftermath of the American Civil War, Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin’s Creed game last year amid intense political climate in the US, fearing backlash and controversy.

According to US history, the game was reportedly set in the Reconstruction period of American history during both 1860s and 1870s with an ex-slave-turned assassin who assumed the role of white supremacy while Ku Klux Klan (the most famously recognized name for this sport) had been prominent in U.S. history throughout the American South.

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