Assassin's Creed Destiny: images and video surface of a cancelled game set in ancient China. According to MP1st it was a console and PC entry

On October 15 the site MP1st published images and gameplay clips of a previously unknown project, referred to by the working title Assassin's Creed Destiny. The material comes from the online portfolios of some developers who worked on it and mostly dates back to a prototype from February 2025. According to MP1st, development was led by TiMi Studio Group, the Tencent studio that also collaborates on Assassin's Creed Jade.

Destiny would have taken the series back to Qin dynasty China, the same era as Jade, but a few years later: Jade is set in 215 BC, Destiny in 206 BC, nine years on. According to MP1st, however, this was not a smartphone title but a full entry for console and PC: it would have been a big return to China after the 2015 2.5D spin-off Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China.

The clips mainly show one mission: a female assassin has to reach a mysterious artifact kept in a sacred palace besieged by the warlord Xiang Yu, a real historical figure, and his troops. An early version of the fight against Xiang Yu himself as a boss can also be glimpsed. The series' trademarks are there, such as stealth kills and the leap of faith, along with a spinning umbrella-like weapon tested in a test environment, with ink-brush-style ability icons. Other animations show a male character, a sign that players might have been able to choose the protagonist's gender, unless it was simply a placeholder.

According to MP1st, the project does not seem to have gone beyond the early stages: it is not known when development began, but much of the material comes from the February 2025 prototype. A month before the prototype was made, TiMi had announced an internal reorganisation, splitting the studio into four groups dedicated to different projects, and Destiny was cancelled shortly afterwards. On October 16 the news was picked up by VGC and GamesRadar+: for GamesRadar+ the game fell victim to TiMi's restructuring, while VGC points to the likely cause being Tencent's decision, reported by Reuters in 2024, to move away from Western franchises, which have lower profit margins than productions for the Chinese market. These are in any case reports based on unofficial material: neither Ubisoft nor Tencent has confirmed that Destiny existed or was cancelled.

Assassin's Creed Jade, the mobile game announced in 2022 by Ubisoft and Level Infinite, Tencent's publishing division, is instead still in development, although it does not have a release date yet. Ubisoft confirmed this in March 2026 in its update on the series' plans, in which content head Jean Guesdon also acknowledged that the company had recently chosen to drop an early-stage project, adding that what it learned is already helping to shape its approach for the future (paraphrased). Ubisoft did not say which project it was, and nothing links it to Destiny, which according to MP1st had already been cancelled in 2025.

Meanwhile the ties between the two companies have grown even closer: since November 21, 2025 Tencent has held a 26.32% economic stake in Vantage Studios, the Ubisoft subsidiary built around Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Rainbow Six, which remains under Ubisoft's exclusive control; the investment was €1.16 billion. Ubisoft's financials are on its card on Statcade's Companies page.