Patrice Desilet, the creator of Assassin’s Creed, has announced 1666 Amsterdam at Summer Game Fest. It’s his first game in seven years.
1666 Amsterdam is a third-person, dark, story-led action-adventure where you play as Noa the Collector, who has the power of witchcraft to investigate demonic entities during the day before facing them at night.
Interestingly, this means the Assassin’s Creed creator has a witch game going head-to-head with Assassin’s Creed Hexe, also a witch-focused game.
While there is currently no release window confirmed for 1666 Amsterdam, you will get to play it before Ubisoft’s upcoming title, as Panache Digital Games has also dropped a prologue demo of the game on Steam and Epic Games Store, which offers around 30 minutes of gameplay.
The studio’s last game was Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, originally planned as an episodic survival game, though the studio lacked the funds to fulfil that vision.