Assassin's Creed Creator's New Game No Longer Episodic

Take a leap of faith on his studio's first title.

By Hope Corrigan

The new indie project from Assassin's Creed Creator Patrice Désilets, Ancestors, will no longer be an episodic game.

At the Reboot Develop 2017 conference (as reported by Eurogamer), Désilets revealed new information about his upcoming title, Ancestors, which includes the expansion of the project to something more akin to an open world than originally expected.

"Exclusive: the episodic nature is gone," Désilets declared, adding "I'm not sure I was supposed to say that."

The creative director of Assassin's Creed and Assassin's Creed 2 went on to confirm that his new game will still be "a third-person action game set between 10 to two million years ago" as was first revealed two years ago, only "now I'm letting players tell their own stories."

Désilets also let on that the game will follow the course of human evolution from Africa outwards to the world and may include resource management as a gameplay element.

Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey is looking to be the first in a series of games from Panache Digital that explores the evolution of mankind, and has no set release date as of yet.

Hope Corrigan is a freelancer for IGN who follows the creed. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Twitch.

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