French publishing giant Ubisoft has reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed project set in post-Civil War America. 

That's according to Game File, which reports that the game was canned in July 2024. The project would have starred a former black slave who had moved from the south into the west; the protagonist would have been coming up against factions such as the Ku Klux Klan. 

“[The game was] too political in a country too unstable, to make it short,” one source told Game File, referring to... I mean, just look at the news. One person working on the project said that part of the title's narrative themes would have been about how racial tensions can be a way of manipulating a society. 

This Assassin's Creed project never made it past the concept stage. 

Were it to have made it to release, it would have emerged into a fractious world, not least because of increasing racial tensions across the global north but also more specifically, with how Ubisoft's pillar franchise was viewed by some parts of the audience. Assassin's Creed Shadows, which launched earlier this year, came under waves of criticism for a number of reasons, including the fact that the game featured the black samurai Yosuke. 

Ubisoft declined to comment on this story when contacted by PCGamesInsider.biz.