Can anyone think of cancelled games that were brought back? I'm just wondering if the cancelled Civil War game could be revived if enough people asked for it.

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A number of the YouTubers I follow have recently been talking about a now cancelled Assassin's Creed game which would have been set in the post-Civil War America, with the Ku Klux Klan as the main antagonistic faction.

Apparently, it was canned because of the backlash following Shadows, which I'm not completely sure about. The reports were made in early 2024, but I remember that the earliest look at Shadows was in mid-2024, when we first got the trailer. Or was it? I'm not sure. Was the backlash around Shadows bad enough even before the first trailers?

Anyway, I think it would have been a great setting. For all the nonsense about Yasuke (which I HEAVILY disagree with; I understand that he may or may not have been a samurai, but he existed at the time, and therefore there is enough space to take creative license), a black protagonist taking down the KKK...well, tell me that doesn't scream awesome to you.

Ever since Ubisoft did Assassin's Creed III, I always wondered if they'd ever venture into Western territory. I might be among a select few, but I really liked AC3; it's one of my favourite games. I would ADORE an Assassin's Creed game set in the deep South, or the Midwest, or dealing with the whole Manifest Destiny thing. They never actually did much with the Colonial Brotherhood once they were done with the Kenway saga, but I'd love to see more of it.

What do you people think?

Posted Oct 10, 2025, 2:41 PM UTC

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