Rumor: Ubisoft Has Four More Unannounced Assassin’s Creed Games In The Works

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We now have word on a rumor that Ubisoft has several Assassins’ Creed games that they haven’t announced yet, on top of the four games that they already announced.

To recap, Ubisoft used an event last October to announce four projects: Assassins’ Creed Red, Assassins’ Creed Hexe, Assassins’ Creed Jade, and Project Invictus. We also covered an old rumor of Project Nexus, the Assassins’ Creed VR game Ubisoft announced in 2020, still being in development.

As reported by Insider Gaming, they have confirmation of four newer games in development, even a sequel to Project Nexus that will also be a VR Assassins’ Creed game. But first, let’s rundown the other three games.

Project Nebula is being pitched by Ubisoft Sofia, the Bulgarian subsidiary who was the main studio on development of Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation and Assassin’s Creed Rogue. Project Nebula may lean more on Assassin’s Creed Rogue setting changes, as it’s intended to be set in India, the Mexican valley during the Aztec Empire, and the Mediterranean.

Project Raid is a project from Ubisoft Chengdu, the subsidiary from Sichuan province. This will be a free-to-play four-player cooperative PvE, something like an Assassin’s Creed version of Left 4 Dead. It will have characters that already exist in the Assassin’s Creed universe. That probably means it will also have something to do with Animus, the plot device that justified the time traveling element from the start of the series.

Ubisoft Annecy was originally known as Ubisoft Simulations, and was founded all the way back in 1996. Its specialty was in making multiplayer for Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell titles. Most recently, It worked on The Division 2 with Massive Entertainment. Annecy’s pitch is