Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin’s Creed game featuring a Black protagonist during the post-Civil War period due to the political state of the US and Yasuke backlash.
Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin’s Creed game featuring a Black Assassin during the post-Civil War period due to the political state of the US and backlash following Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Yasuke
The game would have primarily been set during the Reconstruction period and featured a Black man and former slave taking on the Ku Klux Klan
Sources say it was canceled in July 2024 because the game would have been « Too political in a country too unstable »
Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin’s Creed game that would have featured a Black protagonist set during the post-American Civil War period due to the current political state of the United States and backlash following Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ Yasuke.
That’s according to Game File, which reports that the game was canceled in July of 2024 and would have focused on the American Civil War, as well as the Reconstruction period that followed in the 1860s and 1870s.
