Watch Dogs would be finished: Ubisoft would have definitively cancelled the future of the saga

The open-world franchise would be archived after years without new projects.

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Bad news for fans of one of Ubisoft’s most recognizable sagas. According to new information that has surfaced in the last few hours, the Watch Dogs franchise would be “completely dead”, with no games in development or internal plans to revive it in the short or medium term.

The information comes from sources close to Ubisoft and has been shared by profiles that are usually well-connected to the industry, who claim that there is no active project related to the saga, not even in the conceptual phase. This would confirm what many players already suspected after years of silence.

Watch Dogs would be archived after the failure of Legion

• The last main title, Watch Dogs: Legion, did not meet the commercial or impact expectations that Ubisoft had hoped for. Despite its bold ideas, such as the character recruitment system, the game failed to consolidate the saga or attract a stable player base in the long term.

Since then, there have been no official announcements, nor solid leaks about a new installment, reboot, or spin-off. Now, this new information suggests that Ubisoft would have made the decision to abandon the franchise altogether, at least in its traditional AAA production format.

This move would fit with the internal reorganization that the French company is undergoing, currently focused on strengthening strategic brands such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six, leaving sagas with lower performance in the background (or directly canceling them).

For Xbox players, this means assuming that there will be no new Watch Dogs on Xbox Series, unless there is a radical change of plans in the future. For now, everything indicates that the saga will remain as an experiment of its time, with three main installments and no planned continuity.

Unless there is a major surprise, Watch Dogs joins the list of frozen franchises from Ubisoft, a decision that, although not officially announced, seems already irreversible according to current sources.