Ubisoft Has Reportedly Cancelled Plans For An Immortals: Fenyx Rising Sequel

Not surprised. Can’t say the game made much of a splash. It’s tough establishing a new IP and this felt too similar to other, more popular IPs out there.

Didn't they already cancel like 10 games in the past year? What is going on at Ubisoft?

This is a bit of a disappointment, as this was one of the few Ubisoft properties outside of Rayman I took interest in. I'm sure games like Assassin's Creed and Watch_Dogs are fantastic, but I don't play Mature games. Then you've got the super-casual stuff like Just Dance that does nothing for me. But Immortals was the nice medium between casual and hardcore I'm always looking for.

I picked up Immortals for Switch, but admittedly got swamped with other games and never really played it much. I really want to someday, though. It's on PS Plus now, and Immortals is one of the very few games to support cross saves, so I could play it from the comfort of my TV on PS5 without all the fog from the Switch version, but still be able to take it natively on the go without losing my progress. Really awesome feature that I wish more multiplat games would take advantage of.

That's a shame, it was a pretty decent game really. I enjoyed it

I blame Monster Energy

Of course the only Ubi game I've enjoyed for years it's the one being canceled. F.

No matter how great your game is, if you give it a name like "Immortals: Fenyx Rising", the sales figures are not going to be great.

ubisoft is in rapid decline..

That sucks. The sequel could have cleaned up some issues I had with the game. I’m only moderately excited for the new AC games (Mirage and the Japan based one (finally)). They need some new blood.

I'd had quite enough of that game even before I made it to the end of the demo, so this isn't a personal concern of mine.

I'm just worried that once again a large team of skilled people have wasted years of work on something that will never see release, as has become a bit of a recurring theme with Ubisoft. :x

I imagine something as smashing as TOTK and God of War make this a tougher to sell product that feels derivative. It's a shame cause the first one definitely called my attention (though always being in discount in the eShop was a red flag). Perhaps a sequel would've ironed out the rough edges and brought something cool to the table.

This was one of my 'pandemic games' and honestly I actually quite enjoyed my time with it....

Would I have played it, if not for the abundance of time on my hands and lockdown? Perhaps not, but it definitely was a good time despite how derivative it is/was.

As the previous poster said though, there is probably even less room for this IP now that TOTK and Ragnarok are out in the wild.

Really enjoyed it, Cant say it was the best or REALLY good. But it seemed like they made something they enjoyed and something that could have branched into something larger in a sequel

Maybe it's a shame but I can't say, pretty sure I didn't finish the demo.

But it's Ubisoft, I didn't trust them in the first place.

This is too bad.

After March 2017, I was so excited for all the impending Breath of the Wild knockoffs, and the industry just didn’t deliver at all. Only two games provided anything remotely approaching the Breath of the Wild exploration-based experience: Fenyx and Elden Ring. And since I don’t like Soulslikes, that makes Fenyx the only one (except TOTK of course).

It definitely wasn’t as good as BOTW but “it’s not as good as one of the greatest video games ever made” isn’t much of a criticism.

Im not surprised , but it is a pity. I like this game and its ancient Greek setting

All I remember about this game is every YouTuber freaking out for a week and then total silence.

I bought Immortals: Fenyx Rising on sale at Best Buy a few months ago for $14.99 and haven't gotten back to it, but am looking forward to it at some point. I see some reviews saying it's great and it gets me excited to try it, and then I read tons of stuff saying it was terrible. I love Ancient Greek history and mythology and I'm fine with it not being better than BOTW as that would be a tall order.

I seem to be n the minority here, but I'm quite disappointed by this news — I really enjoyed Fenyx Rising.

Further, the rumours that it was to be based on Polynesian mythology made me really excited and curious.

It was a fun enough game. The humor made it a pretty tough sell, and I imagine they looked at TotK and said "welp, we sure as hell ain't doing THAT w a sequel..."

Looking forward to more open world homogenous AssCreed-flavored stuffs from the co-worker fondling folks at Ubisoft.

That stinks. I thought it was a great game that scratched that botw itch for me.

It was surprisingly fun. I really liked it. BOTW meets GOW.
But, as we only keep getting sequels for everything from the developers, I look forward to new successful IPs

That's disappointing. It's a great and funny Zelda-like.

@KevinP The game doesn't take itself seriously, it's funny and fun. Try it 😁

Dang that sucks! I really enjoyed that game. I put in over 100 hours plus in it.

I played Fenyx Rising for maybe 5 hours before dropping it, it wasn't terrible but it just couldn't hold my interest, it felt incredibly generic and derivative. It did have some glimpses of identity, but the narrative style was very irritating and overall the game lacked the systems that made Breath of the Wild stand out. If I had to summarize it, I would say it was basically Breath of the Wild minus the fun.

That's a shame, I was really looking forward to a sequel!

Shame. That was actually a fun game.

Wasn't really a fan of the humor or the art direction. Demo was good though.

I really enjoyed it. Some games don't look great in the Switch handheld mode. This one looked great in that mode. Too bad about the cancellation.

That's a shame! I really liked it and it is the only AAA Ubisoft game I have bought in the last decade. I always loved their smaller more creative games more (Rayman, Child of Light, Valiant Hearts etc.) and Fenyx Rising felt like those but with a big budget.

@KevinP You should play it for the tons of funny mythology in-jokes alone

Immortals: Fenyx Rising was a great game. Despite some of the Ubisoft map bloat, if you can deal with that and do the main quest and side stuff without going all OCD on every single map icon, you'll have a great time, especially on a strong device.

Sucks to see Ubisoft fall so far, and in such a predictable way.

I had a lot of friends working at Ubisoft Montreal, and they would talk about the absolute nightmare of trying to get "Child of Light" greenlit and funded. The company is basically completely focused on large scale, AAA titles that provide infinite sustainability. Apparently they were telling people that unless a game could produce 10 years of sequels and at least 2 spin offs, they just weren't interested.

And what happens when you have 20 large scale, huge scope projects in the pipe and you have a single bad year? You're just done. You can't release anything to make up the short fall because you have no small scale games to rush, everything you are working on needs a huge team and a huge budget to complete, and you just don't have any options other then cancelling everything.

Worse? They are going to learn the wrong lesson and see this as a reason why they should just continue making Assassin's creed and Far Cry until the end of time, and nothing else.

And announce another live service game that was 5 years too late

They played tears of the kingdom and said nope. Making one kind of a clone game is ok but we can’t compete with the sequel.

It was a fun chill game, didn't really think it need a sequel though.

Oh, that sucks. I quite enjoyed Fenyx Rising, I was looking forward to its sequel far more than Far Cry or whatever number Assassins Creed is up to now.
Given the comparisons between Fenyx and BotW, I do have to wonder if Nintendo following up with TotK and all of it's massive improvements, features and additions might have scared them off.
Cause we all know the Fenyx sequel would be heavily scrutinized compared against TotK.

Not surprising. Game got overshadowed hard. Wasn’t even the the first “BoTW clone” either. Now that more stuff like ER and others dropped Ubisoft probably felt it wasn’t worth making a sequel in an increasingly competitive genre.

Hope sparks of hope gets further discounted. Even at the current price it seems to expensive imo.

@HeadPirate ngl, thats exactly why I dont buy ubisoft games (mario being the only exception). Its a mass production of sequels and new IPs are produced with sequels in mind. I stopped playing ubi titles before the first assassins creed was released.

I received this one as a gift and gave it a solid go out of principle. But it was far too much like "soulless un-fun corporation tries to rip off BOTW" that I couldn't stand it. I quit at exactly the point where they introduced (I think) Hermes and his one-stop-pavilion to buy all your upgrades through charmless menus and DLC/microtransactions.

The first game was pretty fun, definitely not perfect and was hoping a sequel would clean it up a bit. Too bad.

Would be sad if true, but thankfully just "reportedly" for now. By another VG fanbloid with typical "numerous development sources", no less

That’s too bad, the first one is decent and definitely more than worth the $10-15 you can get it for.

They probably worked on a copy and paste of the same thing until they saw the trailer for TotK and realised it wasn't another BotW clone.

Now they are probably trying to make a bad TotK clone and will call it "Immortals 2: Tears of Ubisoft Quebec" because they won't be able to sleep for the next 2-3 years.

Honestly would have picked up sequel day 1 full price. Not the best game ever but really, really enjoyable. Play a lot of AC but can't say I ever have or will pay full price for them.

Ubisoft: ports current version of Anvil Engine 2 for Immotals Fenyx Rising

Also Ubisoft: Not porting AC Valhalla or Mirage

“Why aren’t people buying these games on the Switch?!”

That is annoying as I was really looking forward to the sequel. I absolutely loved this game! I tried playing BOTW twice and sunk 20 hours into it without hooking me. This game got me from the beginning. Loved its story, found it funny at times with some great twists. I'm not a huge fan of combat in games, but somehow the combat really hooked me. I loved the constant leveling up. Did not like the harder portal puzzles though.

Now, I did wind up getting back into BOTW and it hooked me and I sunk 160+ hours into it. But, Immortals Fenyx Rising was really great.

@Not_Soos After all the patches, it wound up looking really great on the Switch. That said, I'd still like to give it a try on my Series X.

@KevinP Don't compare it to Zelda and just view it as its own game and you will have an amazing time. Really fun game with great story and setting.

Sad to see an IP bite the dust after just one game, but this did seem like a fumble from the get go.

What once looked very interesting as "Gods and Monsters", the pivot to what become Immortals was kind of jarring. The juvenile writing and humor was off-putting, and some were surely turned of by the boot-leg Breath of the Wild style physics interactions for puzzles.

Then there was the obvious head scratching question; why would Ubisoft make an open world game themed around Greek mythology when AC Odyssey was still new? The overlapping of themes seems weird for one publisher, to the point that it looked like they were competing with themselves.

@greengecko007 Thank you! I was sitting here trying to remember the original - and much better - title. Gods and Monsters sounded like the start of a franchise. Immortals Fenyx (why?) Rising not so much. Still, I don’t regret spending a tenner on it.

I played that game all the way through and most of the dlc. Really fun game. It had some good puzzles and loved the mythology lesson in the game. Was a little rough around the edges when you compared it to breath of the wild, but it could only have been improved upon. Dumb committees.

I believe that Immortals is much better and more enjoyable that Breath of the Wild and despite being described as a clone, Immortals do many more things and better. Besides, Breath of the Wild is also inspired by Assassin's Creed and other games. It's sad that Ubisoft is ignoring Immortals and Rayman, whose last game was his best. It seems to be all about Assassin's Creed now.

@riki_sidekicks It's like being "Less attractive than Margot Robbie." Not an insult.

@tektite_captain I remember it being announced as Gods & Monsters and thought the game looked interesting, like a Greek mythology BOTW. Then it was renamed and the graphics got a candy-like gloss added to them. It kinda got lost in the pack for me at that point.

@tektite_captain I don't see anything wrong with the name. It's fine to me.

Titles are mostly not a factor if I want a game or not. But I do understand that certain key words can make people interested or have no interest at all right away.

I bought the Switch version shortly after it launched, hoping it would scratch that Zelda itch (it didn’t). It was a decent enough game, but I got bored with it after a few weeks. I’m surprised at the number of internet comments I’ve seen that said it was better than BOTW. I STRONGLY disagree, but different strokes….

Fenyx Rising was...okay. Parts of it (the narrative, mostly) were very polished, but it really needed another layer of gameplay; towns, building, friendly NPCs, a pet, or whatever. Additionally, I think it was a mistake to make the player character a "whatever" selection. Thinking back even now, it's hard to pull any real "wow" moments from memory because the main character was largely just an observer of other characters. Sure, you had some cliche'd "main character speech" moments, but nothing compelling. It's like the worst possible median between "silent protag" and Daxter.

UBISOFT: "Creativity is a real problem in the industry, we've tried to make fun games a few times and they've only sold decently, and we like games to sell insanely well to brainless people who we've indoctrinated over the last 10-15 years. Therefore, we are happy to announce that we will only be making, Assassins' Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy games from here on. No more creativity ever."

Btw I didn't like Immortals at all but it was nice for a moment believing that Ubisoft were risk takers who were interested in actually making games and not products in money franchises, what an awful company, they have a couple games that don't hit perfectly and rather than try and work out what went wrong they just jump ship and never look back.
Immortals had promise, and a sequel or successor could've been awesome if they cared enough to listen to criticisms and improve upon the previous game but no, fire a bunch of people, and get the rest to churn out the next AC.

sad...

If you guys are looking for a BOTW like game to scratch that itch that this Immortals sequel might have done, I totally recommend Biomutant, its weird as heck but I think it's awesome, one of the favourite games I played last year, and doesn't feel as derivative of BOTW whilst still being clearly inspired by it in many ways.

Fenxy was fun, the writing was humerous. Ubi is emblematic of the big developers/publishers that just chase the “AAA” dragon.

I thought it was a great game (with a terrible title) but I don’t think the lack of sequels will keep me up at night.

They should make a Tom Clancy game where you shoot Raving Rabbids.

Yeah, I liked my playthrough of this game. This decision is understandable however. It still didn't stick out in my mind despite me enjoying it to a degree.

I'm liking the game so far, with the exception of its puzzles. I hope the sequel if eventually un-cancelled.