United Kingdom, Oct. 9 -- Ubisoft reportedly cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set after the American Civil War after several years in early development.

According to Game File's Stephen Totilo, the untitled project was in early development and would have followed a formerly enslaved Black man who, after moving west to start a new life, is recruited by the Assassins and returns to the South to fight for justice.

The game's narrative reportedly would have seen him confront the rise of the Ku Klux Klan amid the social upheaval of the 1860s and 1870s.

Sources described the project as one of Ubisoft's "most ambitious modern settings" for the series, exploring themes of freedom, identity, and rebuilding after war.

However, development was...