Ubisoft Reportedly Cancels Its Far Cry Extraction Shooter, Mainline Sequel Said to Be Back on Track
Ubisoft's detour into the extraction shooter genre with Far Cry looks to be over before it ever got an official trailer, while the actual next mainline entry is reportedly climbing out of a rough development stretch.
One Less Extraction Shooter in the World
A new report from Tom Henderson points to the Far Cry extraction shooter project getting scrapped, and I'm struggling to muster any sympathy for that one. Every publisher in town spent the last few years convinced extraction shooters were the next battle royale gold rush, and instead most of them (Apart from Arc Raiders) landed with a thud nobody heard. Slapping that genre onto Far Cry, of all franchises, never made a lot of sense to me anyway. It's a series built on absurd open-world chaos, not crouch-walking around a map hoping to loot a crate before someone else headshots you. At least this one died quietly instead of getting a flashy reveal followed by a cancellation a year later, a pattern Ubisoft's leaned on more than once.
Blackbird Is Reportedly Back on Track
The actual next mainline Far Cry, said to be running under the codename Blackbird, is described in Henderson's full report on Insider Gaming as being on a good path going forward after previous reports painted its development as rough. That prior turbulence lines up with earlier leaks pointing to a troubled Far Cry 7, so a course correction here counts as genuinely good news, especially after Far Cry 6 left the series' systems feeling undercooked.
A Second Far Cry Is Reportedly Already Cooking
Henderson's report also mentions a second new Far Cry game in development, though it's still years away from release. Word tied to that project points to a team called Vantage Studios picking it up after it moved past the conceptual phase, running under the codename Kodiak. Nothing about scope or setting has surfaced yet, which tracks given how early this one reportedly is.
None of this is confirmed by Ubisoft, and codenames have a habit of changing or disappearing before a game ever gets a real title. But if the extraction shooter really is dead, that's development time and budget freed up for two Far Cry projects that were probably always going to matter more.
