Despite multiple delays and key staff leaving the project, Ubisoft says Skull & Bones will release within the next year.

The news that Ubisoft says Skull & Bones will release within the next year was confirmed in their latest earnings release, where they say the open-world pirate multiplayer game will finally release.

Ubisoft is reportedly gearing up to launch Skull & Bones within the next year, as well as their other big upcoming games like Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and  Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope.

Skull & Bones was initially announced back in 2017, but details on the game since have been hard to find aside from multiple delays.

The game also skipped E3 2019, and was not seen during the Ubisoft Forward press conference in 2020, and was most recently delayed to release sometime between April 2022 and March 2023, so this commitment to a release within 2023 isn’t really new. Most recently, its associate director left the project as well.

The studio behind Skull & Bones, Ubisoft Singapore, was under investigation by a national watchdog group for claims of sexual harassment and discriminatory pay rates – the investigation was ended earlier this year with no actions taken against the studio.

Skull & Bones was originally announced for Windows PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.