A report from Eurogamer has revealed a possible route the Assassin’s Creed franchise could have went — namely that the series, which was originally planned to be a trilogy, would have ended with the game’s protagonist jetting off into space. Details of this once-contemplated outcome were published by Lars de Wildt, a researcher who focuses on unearthing conspiracy theories and religious beliefs embedded in digital media at KU Leuven, a Belgian research university.
The abstract for Wildt’s research paper, in which he spoke to a number of former Assassin’s Creed developers back in 2019, opens as follows:
