Ubisoft's canceled sandbox game concept picture exposed similar to "Minecraft"

2025-06-02 21:50:09|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

Similar to many of the current large developers, Ubisoft is undergoing a major restructuring, mainly due to the financial difficulties that have plagued the company for a long time.Against this background, it has successively canceled a number of games including "The Entire Blockade: The Hindu", "Unruly Alliance" and "Project Q".

Project Renaissance has never even received an official announcement opportunity—although its core idea may be gaining new life in another form.

The project was first exposed by Kotaku in 2023 and is described as a voxel game developed by Ubisoft Montreal Studios for four years, with a "sense of déjà vu" on Minecraft.The cancellation of the project was reportedly paved the way for a new work codenamed Alterra, which was inspired by Animal Forest but also uses voxel generation technology.

Project Renaissance was originally conceived as a multi-user creation platform, according to sources close to the development team.Players can use real materials such as metal, snow, magma, and modular materials such as fictional "thermidium" - a design concept that is highly similar to "Minecraft".

The leaked concept map shows that the player character adopts realistic humanoid modeling (a very different from the cartoon style of Minecraft), wearing special equipment and gun-mounted construction tools.The world is divided into categories such as caves and mountains according to its environmental type, supplemented by gameplay labels such as "race escape". Some categories also depend on the main constituent materials.

From the leaked interface design drawings, it can be seen that the project not only draws on the construction essence of "Minecraft" and integrates the "Fortnite"-style menu system, once again confirming the industry's trend of imitating phenomenal successful products.

According to reports from multiple parties, the project was eventually cancelled between February and May 2023.Then, Jean Guesdon, senior creative director of the Assassin's Creed series, resigned, and he is rumored to be in charge of the project development.

As for the spiritual sequel "Alterra", players still have to wait a long time.This work, which has only been developed for about two years, is difficult to appear in Ubisoft Previews and other occasions in the short term, considering the production cycle of modern 3A games.In addition, Ubisoft recently announced the postponement of several key works, and the development priorities of original IPs may face adjustments.

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