Role-playing recipe also in the next Assassin’s Creed, thanks to the Valhalla success

There are, to put it bluntly, two schools Assassin’s Creeds. Partly the old action adventures with for example Assassin’s Creed 2, Brotherhood, Black Flag and Unity. On the one hand, the new ones who dive deeper and deeper into role-playing elements. We count these Assassin’s Creed Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla.

This year, no new big game is planned in the series, but whenever the sequel comes, we can count coldly on role-playing game influences. Thank you for the success Valhalla for this. I nya budgetrapporten Ubisoft notes that Assassin’s Creed never had a more lucrative year. Assassin’s Creed 3 was admittedly shipped in more copies in 2012 and 2013, but Valhalla has earned more and sold record first week. In total, the series has sold 155 million copies since 2007.

Compared to 2012–2013 earned Assassin’s Creed in 50 percent more during 2020–2021. It is also thankful that the previous financial year was so successful Odysseysales for.

Frederick Duguet, chief financial officer at Ubisoft, says that they continue to drive with heavy, long role-playing games.

What we see with Assassin’s Creed is that we have a fantastic recipe and that’s why we decided to expand the post-launch programme to make it the biggest, longest, strongest that we have ever had on the franchise, so we are really going for a great transformation and building on the RPG recipe, and on strong playtime, so that’s what we see for the franchise as a focus in the short-term, notably in fiscal 22 and beyond, but also we are building a very strong rung-up for the next five years for that brand.

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