Ubisoft confirms new Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon are in the works — but 2026-27 will be a quiet year

Ubisoft has confirmed that new entries in Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon are coming, but players and shareholders alike will need to be patient. The company's 2025-26 Annual Financial Report lays out a roadmap that's light on specifics and heavy on future promises.

The 2026-27 fiscal year, which kicked off April 1, will feature Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced alongside what Ubisoft vaguely calls "other targeted premium games" to be announced later. The company openly describes this year as a "lighter new release slate" compared to previous years. The real action is pushed to 2027-28 and 2028-29, when Ubisoft promises a "significantly bigger content pipeline" — new games from Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Ghost Recon, plus an "acceleration" of its live services, which includes Rainbow Six Siege, still one of the publisher's most reliable performers.

None of this is shocking on its face — of course Ubisoft is making more Assassin's Creed and Far Cry games. CEO Yves Guillemot said as much back in March. But the "when" question has been Ubisoft's Achilles heel for years. The company stepped back from annualizing both franchises in 2016, a move that looked smart at the time but has since started to look more like chronic indecision. The studio has been grinding through layoffs, studio closures, high-profile creative exits, and a string of underperforming releases — Skull and Bones and Star Wars Outlaws both fell short of expectations. A major restructuring announced in January hasn't stopped the bleeding, with Ubisoft Barcelona reportedly cutting staff even as Black Flag Resynced performs well. Beyond Good and Evil 2 remains the ghost haunting every Ubisoft investor call — announced in 2008, still not out.

The financial report reads less like a victory lap and more like Ubisoft buying time with its shareholders, who are watching the company's valuation and may be warming to outside interest. Tencent, which backed Ubisoft's new "creative house" restructuring, took a run at acquiring the company in 2022 and remains a significant stakeholder. Whether that pipeline of big franchise games actually materializes on schedule — or slips again — will determine whether Ubisoft gets to write its own next chapter.