No New Assassin’s Creed Remakes Are Currently In The Works, Which Seems Like A Very Bad Idea

With two years since the launch of Assassin’s Creed Shadows approaching and no major releases planned for this fall, Ubisoft used the moment to update fans on the franchise’s current state. Fans will receive an update on Assassin’s Creed Hexe, the next entry in the stealth action-RPG series, in 2027. However, Ubisoft confirmed it currently has no plans to remake any more Assassin’s Creed games.

Regarding Hexe, Ubisoft reshuffled the Assassin’s Creed leadership team, replacing Hexe‘s creative director, Clint Hocking, at the start of 2026. No new information has emerged about the upcoming game, despite it first being teased back in 2022. “We’re making steady progress on this darker Assassin’s Creed experience, though there is still work ahead of us,” said Jean Guesdon, head of AC content, in a new blog post.

Guesdon also confirmed an updated direction for Codename Invictus, the company’s long-in-production multiplayer PVP spin-off of Assassin’s Creed. It underwent a closed test earlier this year, which the veteran developer said proved useful for refining the game’s design. “Players saw great potential in the foundations but wanted more of the pillars that define Assassin’s Creed,” he explained. “The team spent the past months acting on it, and Invictus is now evolving in an exciting direction that better reflects those pillars while staying true to its multiplayer ambitions.” There is still no release window.

You might assume this has all been happening because several other teams are working on different Assassin’s Creed projects, such as remakes of some of the earliest and most fondly remembered entries in the series. Not so. In no uncertain terms, Guesdon made clear that “no other Assassin’s Creed remake [is] actively in development.” Never say never, obviously, but this suggests that at the very least it could be a long time before we see another Black Flag Resynced-style game from Ubisoft, which seems lowkey very bad for a publisher that is struggling immensely in the current AAA game development environment to make money.

Ubisoft has long been a trend chaser, first with open-world and live-service games, and later with cloud streaming, NFTs, and now genAI. So I’m genuinely perplexed why the company with a sprawling blockbuster development apparatus spanning the globe, and not nearly enough annual game releases to fund it, would invest in a steady pipeline of high-quality remakes to help it survive the game industry’s current winter. The early Assassin’s Creed games are especially ripe for this sort of treatment. The gameplay often feels clunky by modern standards and there’s no shortage of ways to build out those historical settings into more expansive, more visually immersive worlds.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot appeared to be making a similar argument when he promised multiple remakes back in a 2024 interview. “Firstly, players can be excited about some remakes, which will allow us to revisit some of the games we’ve created in the past and modernize them; there are worlds in some of our older Assassin’s Creed games that are still extremely rich,” he said at the time. “Secondly, to answer your question, there will be plenty of experience variety. The goal is to have Assassin’s Creed games come out more regularly, but not for it to be the same experience every year. There are a lot of good things to come, including Assassin’s Creed Hexe, which we’ve announced, which is going to be a very different game from Assassin’s Creed Shadows. We’re going to surprise people, I think.”

We’ll see if 2027 is the year that finally happens.