A leaked prototype appears to show Assassin’s Creed Destiny, a canceled China-set project built around a palace under siege. Its central sequence follows a female assassin trying to reach a mysterious artifact and stop an invading army from taking it. The footage places her inside a burning fortress on a rainy night, but does not establish how far development had progressed.
MP1st traced the prototype material to developer portfolios and reported that Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group, which also worked on Assassin’s Creed Jade, was expected to lead development. Destiny was planned as a full-scale console-and-PC game for modern hardware, set in 206 BCE during the Qin Dynasty, nine years after Jade‘s events. Jade, announced as a mobile game in 2022, remains in development as a separate project.
The footage shows Xiang Yu and his troops besieging the palace, alongside stealth kills, sword and spear combat, and a boss fight involving the Chinese warlord. A leap of faith also appears, as does a spinning, umbrella-like weapon rendered with placeholder assets.
Leaked files also include animation assets for a male protagonist. They leave open whether Destiny would have featured dual leads or let players choose their character, but do not settle the question. The project would have returned the series to China as a full-scale game after Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China in 2015. Earlier leaked footage of the separate mobile game Assassin’s Creed Jade came from a different project.
Destiny was reportedly canceled in 2025, not long after TiMi underwent a restructuring early that year, a sequence covered in reporting on the cancellation. The broader context includes Tencent’s 2024 pivot away from Western franchises, which it attributed to lower profit margins than domestic Chinese releases. Ubisoft has separately acknowledged pivoting away from an early project, but has not identified it as Destiny.
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