The Rogue Prince of Persia Outlines 2026 Roadmap, Includes New Elements, Difficulties, Weapon Affixes, Tools, Parkour, And Arenas

While the committedness of a Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake disappeared on with respective different games earlier this year, Prince of Persia fans inactive person spin-off The Rogue Prince of Persia — and present its squad has unveiled a sizable 2026 outpouring roadmap.

Via Steam, developer Evil Empire wished its assemblage a blessed 2026, and confirmed the summation of a Flaming Horses instrumentality arsenic a motion to lunar caller Year of the Horse. This instrumentality unleashes a herd of flaming horses that "charge forward, leaving a burning way down them."

"We’ve ever wanted a burning instrumentality that works similar Altan’s Bracelets, and the twelvemonth of the occurrence equine provided the cleanable originative spark," the squad teased. "Plus, erstwhile you speech astir Persian culture, you person to speech astir the horse! From the Nisean Horse and the Royal Road to the legendary Rakhsh from the Shahnameh, horses are legendary."

That's not all, though. The "Breathless" update is slated to get with a nationalist beta astatine the extremity of March, promising a "quicker and much intense" experience. This includes a rework of the game's archetypal hour, tighter pacing and improvements to erstwhile and however you unlock caller crippled contented and caller mechanics, arsenic good arsenic changes to bosses' difficulty. "Reworks of the level plan of the archetypal fewer biomes volition besides item our iconic wall-run determination and marque each biome quicker and tougher," developer Evil Empire said.

There are changes for established players, too, including a caller Freeze element, which is coming with a caller weapon, the slingshot, arenas — "zones that fastener you in, and the lone mode retired is to decision question aft question of enemies!" — and limb affixes which tin "make each limb that appears successful your tally overmuch much absorbing and varied, giving you immoderate hard choices to take…"

Here's the afloat update:

The “Breathless update” volition get with a nationalist beta astir the extremity of March! As you tin conjecture from its title, this update means making the full acquisition quicker and much intense, leaving you... breathless!We person done a large rework of the pacing of the first hour, including erstwhile and however you volition unlock caller crippled contented and caller mechanics, arsenic good arsenic the bosses’ difficulty. Reworks of the level plan of the archetypal fewer biomes volition besides item our iconic wall-run determination and marque each biome quicker and tougher.For veteran players who person been looking guardant to caller toys to play with, don't worry, we've got you covered! First up, we're introducing a caller constituent - freeze – which is coming with a caller weapon, the slingshot!Next connected the database is the arenas – zones that fastener you in, and the lone mode retired is to decision question aft question of enemies!Most importantly, weapon affixes are coming too!! These affixes volition marque each limb that appears successful your tally overmuch much absorbing and varied, giving you immoderate hard choices to take...End Game UpdateThat's it for the archetypal update, let's rapidly speech astir the second one!We're readying for it to onshore successful aboriginal May, and immoderate of the contented whitethorn change, but we cognize what we'd similar to do... It volition absorption connected the End Game, positive bringing much challenges similar Speed Run mode and Daily Awakening.You'll beryllium capable to truly trial your accomplishment and propulsion the bounds with this update coming! Speed, precision, and strategy—show america what you've got.From 2025 to 2026Looking backmost connected 2025, it was a large twelvemonth for The Rogue Prince of Persia. We yet graduated from Early Access and accrued the game’s Steam reappraisal people from 70% upon Early Access merchandise to 88% truthful acold with your enactment and help!Of course, we're not conscionable connected Steam, we’ve besides successfully brought the crippled to Switch, Xbox, and Playstation! Right now, we are astir astatine the constituent of having 1 cardinal people who've played our game!Even though we are lone successful the 2nd period of 2026, the crippled has already achieved thing else: we person been included successful the Bafta awards longlist and gained 4 nominations astatine the gallic crippled awards ceremonial PEGASUS, including champion game. We’re crossing each the fingers and toes we person until March.Following the awards season, vinyl and carnal collector editions are besides connected the way! We judge it volition beryllium a large twelvemonth for the rogue prince of persia, and we can’t hold to marque this crippled amended with you guys successful 2026!

Ubisoft began this twelvemonth by announcing a sizable institution restructure, resulting successful the cancelation of six games, including its Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake, and a hold to a further 7 titles. Two Ubisoft studios volition adjacent wholly arsenic a effect of the changes, portion others are taxable to further layoffs.

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner precocious reacted to Ubisoft's cancelation of its Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake, describing the nonaccomplishment of immoderate task arsenic a "brutal experience" for developers. "A cancelation truthful adjacent to merchandise tin beryllium peculiarly devastating for younger squad members who don't person decades of past shipped titles connected their resumé," helium said. "It's pugnacious to abruptly sorb that the past 4 years of hard enactment you were arrogant of, and looking guardant to seeing retired successful the satellite arsenic your caller calling card, volition present ne'er spot daylight."

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