Assassin’s Creed Shadows will no longer receive a second expansion, according to developer Ubisoft. Associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois would share in an interview that Shadows will instead receive updates “at minimum” the size of its recent Attack on Titan collab update.
In the wake of Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ latest Attack on Titan update, developer Ubisoft has revealed that the team no longer has any plans to release a second expansion for the game.
Shadows first expansion, Claws of Awaji would release back in September. The 10-hour experience would be billed as the game’s “first expansion” in its season pass; however, it would be offered for free to players who pre-ordered the game as a make-good for its delay from November 2024 to February 2025.
“As of now, at this moment for Year Two, there is no expansion on the size of Awaji that is planned,” associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois said in an interview with JorRaptor.
In the same interview, Lemay-Comtois tried to soften the blow of the news by citing examples in the past where Ubisoft had returned to a game years later with add-on content. This month, Assassin’s Creed Mirage (released in 2023), received an all-new DLC titled Valley of Memory. However, this DLC was funded by Saudi-backed company Savvy Games Group, making it unlikely for Shadows to receive the same treatment here.
What makes the decision all the more disappointing is that Claws of Awaji felt like it was the start to an even more impressive expansion on the horizon. One that would take on the feedback from fans post-launch and cater a new experience around new lore or gameplay scenarios players especially highlighted online.
Previous Assassin’s Creed titles have also received two or more expansions post-launch. Assassin’s Creed Origins would receive The Hidden Ones and The Curse of the Pharaohs and Odyssey‘s expansions would include Legacy of the First Blade and The Fate of Atlantis.
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla would receive three major DLC, including Wrath of the Druids, The Siege of Paris and Dawn of Ragnarök. In fact, Mirage had originally been intended as an expansion for Valhalla as well, before it was retooled into its very own standalone game instead.
Despite Shadows being Ubisoft’s best outing in the Assassin’s Creed franchise in years, it’s upsetting as a fan to see it receive the least amount of post-launch content.
“We’re still working on content for post-launch and supporting it, but it’s not a full-on DLC the way a season pass would have had in the previous years,” Lemay-Comtois said, confirming that Ubisoft has plans for smaller post-launch releases into 2026.
“We’re trying to re-adjust for Year Two a little bit,” he continued. “There’s learning from Year One we can apply to Year Two. Any content we want to do in Year Two will probably be more sparse, not a drip-feed… but chunkier updates that shake things up a little more. I’m not announcing anything at this point but our strategy for Year One was to be quick and reactive, so it means smaller drops often, but for Year Two we don’t need to put fires out or anything, so it’s more what good, chunky little piece of meat… we can drop and have people come back and enjoy it.”
Lemay-Comtois would also confirm that Shadows would still receive updates similar to that of the Attack on Titan update released yesterday, stating, “At minimum this size,” he would share.
“And whether or not this is the right way to go, or a good learning, I think it’s more of an experience we’re trying with Shadows, to keep things small and reactive and see how the community feels about it and reacts to it,” he concluded. “And the learnings that come out of that will be applied to whatever other projects we do next.”
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