- Ubisoft’s work on Project Maverick has seen progress, but the team is still figuring out its gameplay loop.
- The game was reportedly rebooted early last year.
- Its core gameplay and direction could still change in the future.
Despite Ubisoft’s recent setback with 6 game cancellations and multiple delays, the publisher wants to carry its tentpole franchises, including Far Cry, into an annual billionaire brand status. Ubisoft has had two new games in the series for the last three years.
The open-world aficionado is working on a mainline Far Cry 7, called Project Blackbird, and a multiplayer extraction shooter offshoot, Project Maverick. Early 2025 reports suggested that the multiplayer game was rebooted after an internal review.
The game’s writing had been on the wall back then, but a new status update reveals that not much may have changed since the last few years. Ubisoft is reportedly still figuring out its core gameplay loop and hasn’t settled on a single direction yet.
Why it matters: While Maverick has seen developments since early 2025, it is allegedly still being rebooted, indicating that the game is still in the skeletal stages of development since 2023.
Credible insider Tom Henderson explains that there has been significant progress since the old reports, but Ubisoft is still going back to the drawing board with its core gameplay loop.
Given the turbulent times the publisher is currently facing, Maverick’s future remains quite uncertain. Its gameplay direction could shift from a simple extraction shooter by the time it launches, depending on what’s more popular in the future.
It Kind Of Keeps Going Back To The Drawing Board And They’re Trying To Figure Out The Gameplay Loop And All That Kind Of Stuff.
-Tom Henderson, Industry Insider.
Tom jokes that Ubisoft may adapt its entire gameplay loop again if the studio observes a new multiplayer gaming trend in the future, like shifting to the hero shooter genre, if Highguard attracts millions of players.
Even the mainline Far Cry 7 is rumored to focus more on multiplayer so it can be played longer, as per past rumors. It will reportedly be set in New England.
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