Assassin’s Creed is skipping 2019, Ubisoft says

Ubisoft’s mostly annual Assassin’s Creed series is taking next year off, CEO Yves Guillemot said in an interview with Gamespot.

Guillemot said “we are not going to have a full-fledged Assassin’s next year” and explained that the publisher will instead focus its efforts on developing new content for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which is scheduled for release on Oct. 5.

Ubisoft released a new entry in the Assassin’s Creed franchise every year between 2009 and 2015. The company took a year off in 2016, after the bug-plagued launch of Assassin’s Creed Unity and a tepid reception to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. At the time, Ubisoft said the development teams were “stepping back and re-examining the Assassin’s Creed franchise.”

Assassin’s Creed returned in 2017 with Origins, a well-received game that was strongly supported with post-release content for the better part of a year. According to Eurogamer, Ubisoft may have something similarly substantive for Odyssey, with a rumored Atlantis-themed expansion in the works.

This year’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey takes the series to ancient Greece. It stars Alexios and Kassandra, a pair of Spartan warriors, and will include a strong role-playing element through dialogue choices and customizable combat with an expanded skill tree. For more on the game, check out Polygon’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey preview.