Following rumours of a remake, Ubisoft has confirmed that a new Rayman game is being considered.
Over the weekend news broke that developers at Ubisoft Montpellier, the team which developed the excellent Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, had been disbanded and that a sequel had been turned down. This report was largely confirmed by Ubisoft itself which stated that “Most of the team members who worked on Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown have shifted to other projects that will benefit from their expertise.”
Tom Hender wrote on Insider Gaming that Ubisoft’s internal expectations for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown was that it would sell millions, equalling the biggest metroidvanias on the market. Instead, it has sold around a million copies.
Now, a new report from Grant Taylor-Hill of Insider Gaming is suggesting that one of those projects is a Rayman Remake. According to “sources close to the situation”, the new Rayman game is going by the codename “Project Steambot” with Ubisoft Milan being the primary developers. Based on what he has been told, Grant is reporting that around a dozen developers from the disbanded Prince of Persia team have been shifted over to work on Rayman.
The report goes on to to say that Michel Ancel, the creator of Rayman, is working on the project as a consultant. This has apparently caused some concern among the team as Ancel was previously caught up in allegations of “toxic leadership” in 2020.
Eurogamer contact Ubisoft for more information, and surprisingly Ubisoft confirmed that a new Rayman game is in fact being worked on, with Michel Ancel returning as a consultant. The statement says that the new Rayman phase is “still in its early stages” so we likely won’t hear anything about it anytime soon.