‘Assassin’s Creed’ Creator’s New Action-Adventure Game ‘1666: Amsterdam’ Sets Early Access Release (Gaming News Roundup)
Panache Digital Games, the studio led by "Assassin's Creed" creator Patrice Désilets, has announced that its new title "1666: Amsterdam" will launch in Early Access on 25 August. The dark, third-person narrative action-adventure game casts players as Noa, the Collector, who uses witchcraft to hunt "Originals" — demonic entities disguised as humans — across a 17th-century Amsterdam shaped by secrets and power.
The Early Access edition will be available on PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store for $29.99, offering the first chapter of the campaign with an estimated 15-hour playthrough. A new gameplay video accompanying the announcement details the game's combat, mechanics and day-night cycle, and highlights the differing play styles of lead characters Noa and Aaron as they track down Originals throughout the city.
- "1666: Amsterdam" launches in Early Access on 25 August for $29.99
- Made by "Assassin's Creed" creator Patrice Désilets' studio Panache Digital Games
- First campaign chapter offers roughly 15 hours of gameplay
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Panache Digital Games is the studio behind "1666: Amsterdam," founded by Patrice Désilets, best known for creating the "Assassin's Creed" series. The new game is a dark, narrative-driven action-adventure set in a fictionalised 17th-century Amsterdam, in which players take on the role of Noa, a witchcraft-wielding hunter tracking demonic beings called "Originals" who pass as ordinary people.
The game is entering Early Access, a common practice in the games industry where a title is released to paying customers before it is fully finished, allowing the studio to gather feedback and generate revenue while development continues. In this case, the Early Access version covers only the first chapter of the story, giving players a partial but substantial slice of the eventual full game.
The release matters to followers of the industry because it marks a high-profile return for a designer closely associated with one of gaming's best-known franchises, and it will be an early test of how the studio's new setting, characters and combat systems are received before the complete game is finished.