Multiple Assassin's Creed remakes in development

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot says the publisher wants to release new Assassin's Creed games "more regularly" in the future, including remakes of older games.

Ubisoft has struggled with remakes several times. The remake of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been in the air for four years now, and it's still nowhere near completion. The Splinter Cell remake is even more shrouded in mystery and we don't even know if it's still in active development. It was announced in 2021, and that's all we've gotten since then. Hopes that some kind of update would be revealed during the Ubisoft Forward presentation earlier this month were dashed when the studio didn't say a word about it.

Still, it seems that Ubisoft isn't going to give up just yet and really wants to play with its deep game portfolio. "Players can look forward to some remakes that will allow us to go back to some of the games we've made in the past and update them," Guillemot said when asked about the future of the Assassin's Creed series in a promotional interview with Ubisoft. "Some of our older Assassin's Creed games have worlds that are still incredibly rich."

Guillemot didn't hint at which Assassin's Creed games will be remade, but we can kind of infer which games make the most sense to remake. We could tackle the remake of Altair's original story or his successor Ezio, who we managed in three games (Assassin's Creed 2, Brotherhood and Revelations). Many fans would also like to return to the golden age of piracy in Black Flag. Ubisoft has no shortage of options, and in all likelihood, if executed correctly, they could have a real hit on their hands.

The Assassin's Creed franchise has been around since 2007 and is one of Ubisoft's flagships. In all these years, she brought quite a few accolades to the studio and raised it from the average. There have been quite a few highs and also quite a few serious lows. Fans got tired of the same gameplay pattern after a few years, it was clear that Ubisoft needed to change the formula if they wanted to refresh the franchise. Guillemot also took this to heart, agreeing at the time that releasing a new game every year was not the way to go.

And so it was. After the very mediocre Assassin's Creed Syndicate, it took Ubisoft two years to release a much better sequel, Origins, and when Odyssey came out the following year, it made the change many craved. Even critics agreed that Odyssey is a very good example of what an Assassin's Creed game should look like.

Guillemot said in an interview that Ubisoft's goal is "to have Assassin's Creed games come out more regularly, but not have the experience be the same every year." He cited Assassin's Creed Hexe, a supernatural-themed game that we don't know about, as an example nothing, and which will be "very different from Assassin's Creed Shadows".

Kotaku reported last year that a remake of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag was already in the works, and while that remains unconfirmed, Guillemot's words help raise hopes that it is indeed happening. First up is Assassin's Creed Shadows, which will be released on November 15.