Assassin’s Creed Destiny: leaked clips show the lost China game

Assassin’s Creed Destiny was a working title for a game led by TiMi Studio Group, a studio owned by Tencent, in partnership with Ubisoft. Neither company ever announced it. Details come from a report built on clips posted in the portfolios of developers who worked on it.

It was set in the Qin Dynasty in 206 BCE. That puts it nine years after Jade, which takes place in 215 BCE, so the two games would have shared the same slice of Chinese history.

Most of the material dates to a prototype from February 2025. A prototype is an early test build used to try out ideas, so what you see is rough and far from a finished game.

The main clip is a single mission. A female assassin has to reach a mysterious artifact inside a sacred palace while the warlord Xiang Yu and his army lay siege to it. There is also a brief look at early work on a boss fight against Xiang Yu himself.

Fans will recognize the basics. There are stealth kills, parkour across rooftops and the series’ famous leap of faith. Other animations show a male character fighting with parkour moves, which hints that players might have picked their hero’s gender, though that could also have been a placeholder.

The standout is the weapon. In a bare test level, the player spins an umbrella-like blade, with ink-brush style ability icons, a health bar and a yin-yang emblem on screen. Close-up artwork of weapons, including Xiang Yu’s heavy halberd, also leaked.

The project appears to have been dropped early. A month before that February 2025 prototype was built, TiMi announced it was restructuring and splitting into four teams. Destiny was cancelled not long after, the report says.

It was not the only casualty. Athena, a third-person action game based on Greek myths, was in the works from 2024 to 2026. Invictus, a stylized cyberpunk open-world game directed by Assassin’s Creed veteran Ashraf Ismail at TiMi’s Montreal studio, ended when that branch closed this February.

There is a bigger shift behind all this. A 2024 Reuters report said Tencent was moving away from Western game franchises, which earn lower margins than homegrown Chinese hits, and shifting staff to casual party games. No official reason for Destiny’s cancellation has been given.

For players, the short version is that there is no Destiny to wait for. The good news is that China is still on the series’ map through Assassin’s Creed Jade.

Jade was first announced in 2022 as a joint project between Ubisoft and Level Infinite, Tencent’s publishing arm. It went quiet after several beta tests, and hundreds of its developers were reportedly moved to a party game called DreamStar. In March, Ubisoft confirmed Jade is still being made. There is no release date yet.

Elsewhere in the series, Assassin’s Creed Hexe, a darker game set during Germany’s witch trials, is reportedly aiming for a late 2027 window.