It’s been less than a week since Ubisoft announced it was cancelling several projects, including the long-awaited Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. That project had apparently been struggling since its 2020 announcement, having essentially started over from scratch back in 2023. But while the remake itself may never see the light of day, some concept art and screenshots from the game’s 2024 pre-alpha version have started circulating online. Ubisoft, however, is doing its best to get them taken down before anyone can see what might have been.
The art and images are from a 2024 workshop presentation, and though they don’t show the game in motion, there’s enough here to get a sense of what the team at Ubisoft was working toward before the project was canceled. The presentation was posted to YouTube, then subsequently copyright-struck by Ubisoft. Fans still managed to grab the images, though, and have been sharing them across social media.
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake – the full workshop presentation 2024 was leaked on YouTube yesterday!
I’ve put together some of what was shown during the conference — everything looks absolutely beautiful!😩😍
(Pre-Alpha, Early 2024)
Soundtrack is from the remake! pic.twitter.com/3BDRlFlgHJ— Prince of Persia Universe (@princeozzyX) January 27, 2026
From the sound of it, the Sands of Time remake was even further along by the time it was canceled earlier this month, as Eman Ayaz, an actor who has hinted she was playing a role in the game, had shot a marketing promo for the game just two months prior.
“I pushed myself past old limits and discovered things I didn’t even know existed inside of me through the lives that I lived in this character,” Ayaz says in a YouTube video. “It was something that’s completely out of the range of any character that I’ve been cast in in the past. And I got to do things I’ve never gotten to do before. And it brought out what I honestly believe is the best performance of my career. And now nobody is ever going to see that. I can’t stress enough how much I had kind of planned my life around the release of this project.”
While the Sands of Time remake is probably the most high-profile cancellation at Ubisoft this month, the company shelved five other games and delayed seven more as part of a larger restructuring. Don’t worry though, Beyond Good and Evil 2 is still coming.
