The project codenamed Assassin's Creed League is rumored to have grown out of discarded Assassin's Creed Shadows DLC.
Apparently the game was originally planned as a piece of DLC for Assassin's Creed Shadows, the Japan-set most recent entry in ...
AC League would have been a baseline for introducing cooperative play into the rest of the series.
Ubisoft has undergone massive restructuring recently, and in that wake, a number of games have been canceled - potentially impacting AC.
Ubisoft reportedly canceled an Assassin's Creed cooperative multiplayer game that was initially developed as an Assassin's Creed Shadows DLC.
Despite an invite-only alpha allegedly planned for May 2026, Ubisoft Annecy was reportedly informed last week that the project had been cancelled as part of ongoing restructuring at Ubisoft.
Ubisoft is apparently not done canceling games, as a new report has shed some light on a recently canned Assassin's Creed co-op game.