Footage of a reportedly cancelled Murderer’s Creed recreation set in historical China has emerged on-line, together with stealth kills, the collection’ leap of religion, and a spinning umbrella weapon.
Referred to as Murderer’s Creed Future, it was reportedly being made for present platforms at Tencent-owned TiMi Studio Group, which additionally labored on cellular recreation Assassin’s Creed Jade.
In response to MP1st, the clips have been taken from portfolios belonging to individuals who labored on it, and most come from a prototype in-built February 2025. It is thought Future’s setting was 206 BCE, 9 years after Jade’s 215 BCE.
The primary mission has a feminine murderer heading right into a sacred palace below siege from the military of the warlord Xiang Yu, in the hunt for a mysterious artefact, and an early-stage boss encounter involving the warlord additionally seems.
Elsewhere, a male character makes use of parkour to dispatch enemies, whereas a short lived check space exhibits the participant utilizing an umbrella-style spinning weapon, with ink-brush potential icons and a well being bar on display screen.
Codename Jade got a namecheck back in March alongside “a number of different tasks at present within the works, all at totally different levels of growth”. There was discuss of “bringing co-op again to Murderer’s Creed”, and a imprecise nod to a cancelled recreation, however we’re nonetheless no nearer to a launch date for Jade or certainly another agency particulars in regards to the cellular recreation.
The unhealthy information continued this week, too, when Ubisoft proposed closing Finnish studio RedLynx, creator of the Trials collection of video games, and introduced significant layoffs at Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced studio, Ubisoft Singapore.
“At this time, we knowledgeable our groups of a proposal to shut RedLynx in Finland, topic to the native change negotiation course of, which might have an effect on as much as 52 positions,” Ubisoft mentioned in an announcement seen by Eurogamer. “At Ubisoft Singapore, 70 positions have been impacted to align the studio with upcoming manufacturing wants. The studio stays an essential a part of Ubisoft’s international manufacturing organisation.”