Assassin's Creed codename Hexe is scheduled for 2025/2026, but an Ubisoft employee has already revealed what we can expect from the game.
Since the first Assassin's Creed Showcase in September 2022 we haven't heard news of the games with code-names like Red and Hexe. The release of Assassin's Creed Mirage, on 12 October 2023, is approaching, and we're getting curious about what is to come after that . Because there is a lot. At the moment, Ubisoft is working on eleven Assassin's Creed games!
What about Hexe specifically? During the Showcase, we've seen 30 seconds of, well, not really anything. A dark forest, falling leaves, the shimmer of a fire and barking dogs – and of course the Assassin's Creed logo, made of little sticks. However there was now a small reveal for what to expect.
New Assassin's Creed Hexe Will Have "Strong Feminine Energy"
What do we know about Codename Hexe so far? The name suggests we're moving not only to Central Europe, as Ubisoft said, but to Germany, as Hexe simply is the German word for witch. So sorry to all of you who hoped for the Salem Witch Trials. On LinkedIn, an employee from Ubisoft Montréal was now looking for a Groom Artist and a Senior Gameplay Animator.
While she's stating that Assassin's Creed Hexe "will leave a lasting mark on the franchise" that's not really the interesting news. Further down in the comments, May-Alice Thompson, an art director at Supermassive Games, stated that she hopes for "some strong feminine energy" in Assassin's Creed Hexe and was not disappointed by Tabbara.
While Thompson seems to be happy with this answer, parts of Twitter aren't. Who would have thought. But it seems only like a reasonable choice to have feminine energy in a setting where mostly women were concerned. During the witch hunts in Europe and specifically in today's Germany, up to 60,000 people were gruesomely killed and around 80% of them were women.
A female lead character, maybe even a witch, seems to be a likely choice for the setting and the MANY ways of female energy in Hexe. The book legitimizing the witch hunt, the Malleus maleficarum, was written by a monk and laid focus on how evil and corrupt women were said to be, especially midwives. So during a long time period, starting with the publishing of the book also known as Hexenhammer in 1486 and ending with the last women executed as a witch in 1782 in Switzerland, it was especially women who suffered.
As Assassin's Creed always tried to be sensitive about the time periods and cultures they're depicting in their games, it wouldn't be a big surprise to have a female lead.
Surely you're excited about this:
