Recently, InsiderGaming released an article titled "Assassin's Creed: Shadow is one of the best-selling games so far in 2025" and reprinted it on the X platform.A curious player asked in the comment section: "Is there no news about the Assassin's Creed series code-named invictus? When will it be released?" The well-known whistleblower Tom Henderson replied below, "It should be this year."

Assassin's Creed: Codename Invictus (tentative name) is the upcoming multiplayer online work of the series.It is reported that this work will become an integral part of the "Animus Hub" platform.

The concept name of the project was first disclosed by VideoGameChronicle in an exclusive interview with Marc-Alexis Côté on September 10, 2022.In May 2024, Ubisoft officially announced that Alexandre Poirier, a former audio designer of Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, will serve as the game designer for this new work.

Although the Assassin's Creed series focuses on single-player experience, there have been many attempts in multiplayer mode before.A special arena mode was introduced in early works: two players need to search for and assassinate opponents in the dense NPC venues.Although the player group was skeptical at the time, this multiplayer gameplay that was unique in the era when FPS games were prevalent eventually cultivated a group of loyal followers, and its innovation was widely praised.

It is not difficult to understand that players are full of expectations for the stimulation and suspicion of "hunting peer assassins", but given Ubisoft's repeated failures in the real-time service-oriented game field (such as the rapid decline of "Super Hunting City" and "Unruly Alliance") and its radical commercialization strategies, the industry is generally worried that "Assassin's Creed: Codename Invictus" may repeat the same mistakes.