
The first Watch Dogs was a commercial success, becoming the biggest new IP launch in the UK at the time. RELATED: Assassin's Creed Mirage Can Tie AC1 and AC Valhalla Together on the Timeline The Watch Dogs Series Has Struggled to Gain an Audience Even if it never nailed down a direction, the concepts deserve to live on, and the best place for them may be within the Assassin's Creed franchise. Its futuristic world was interesting, the hacking mechanics were wild, and the multiple playable characters from Watch Dogs: Legion were unlike anything open-world games have done.


Watch Dogs' gameplay was not unique, but the concepts it played with were. It just seems like there was no audience for Watch Dogs, but that does not mean the series had nothing to offer. Three drastically different games led to a pretty mediocre franchise, and no amount of tie-in projects seemed to excite the fanbase.

The series was supposed to be Ubisoft's next big open-world franchise, but it never quite knew what it wanted to be. After three action-adventure titles failed to capture players, rumors have suggested that Ubisoft has quietly canceled the Watch Dogs franchise.
