Assassin’s Creed: Shadows Won’t Get a Second Expansion, Ubisoft Shifts Focus to “Chunkier Updates”

Ubisoft has confirmed that Assassin’s Creed: Shadows will not be receiving a second expansion after Claws of Awaji. Instead, the studio is planning to deliver larger, standalone updates similar in scale to the recently released Attack on Titan crossover.

Ubisoft confirms Assassin’s Creed: Shadows won’t get a second expansion, focusing instead on chunkier updates. | Image via Gaming Amigos

Breaking Tradition

Since Assassin’s Creed Origins in 2017, the series has typically followed a pattern of releasing at least two major expansions. But Shadows, which launched earlier this year, is breaking that tradition.

Associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois explained in an interview with YouTube channel JorRaptor (via Eurogamer) that Claws of Awaji, released in September, will be the only expansion for Shadows. “As of now, at this moment for Year Two, there is no expansion on the size of [Claws of Awaji] that is planned,” he said.

"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 previous years."

Lemay-Comtois admitted the plan could change, but for now Ubisoft wants to keep updates “small and reactive” while listening to community feedback. He added that Year Two content will be “chunkier” rather than frequent drip-feed drops. “It’s more about what good, chunky little piece of meat we can drop and have people come back to it and enjoy it,” he explained.

The Attack on Titan crossover, released earlier this week, is an example of the type of content Ubisoft plans to deliver. However, reactions online have been mixed, with players criticizing quest design and animations. Despite that, Ubisoft seems committed to this new model of content delivery.

Looking ahead, Shadows will soon arrive on the Switch 2. Meanwhile, Assassin’s Creed Mirage surprised fans with a free story DLC, backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.