Assassin's Creed Co-Creator Re-Reveals 1666 Amsterdam, 30-Minute Demo Playable Now

Once-abandoned humanities enactment escapade 1666 Amsterdam has been reannounced astatine Summer Game Fest by Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets.

Described arsenic a acheronian third-person story-led action-adventure, 1666 Amsterdam has re-emerged 15 years aft Désilets archetypal began moving connected the conception backmost astatine the long-defunct THQ Montreal. That workplace was past bought by Ubisoft, for whom Désilets worked for respective years earlier his acrimonious departure.

Now astatine his ain workplace Panache Digital, which made ape endurance crippled Ancestors: A Humankind Odyssey, Désilets won backmost the rights to 1666 Amsterdam — though opted to marque Ancestors first.

Now, a escaped playable 30-minute prologue is disposable present connected Steam and Epic Games Store, portion the afloat crippled is acceptable to motorboat successful aboriginal Access connected PC successful 2026, with console versions coming later.

“It’s been a agelong clip coming, and I couldn’t beryllium prouder of our squad of astir 70 talented developers successful Montreal," Désilets said. "For the past six years, we’ve focused connected 1 happening supra each else: the crippled itself. No fake footage, nary vertical slices, conscionable a playable acquisition evolving physique aft build, time aft day.

"Today, we’re yet acceptable to invitation players into that process. The escaped prologue disposable present connected Steam and Epic Games Store is lone a tiny sensation of what’s to come, an amuse-bouche earlier a nine-course dinner, an instauration to the world, its characters, and its antithetic clip periods. We anticipation players volition bask discovering it arsenic overmuch arsenic we’ve enjoyed creating it."

Here's everything announced astatine Summer Game Fest 2026 if you request a drawback up connected what the video crippled manufacture has successful store.

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