Ubisoft’s upcoming Assassin’s Creed Shadows is returning to smaller map sizes instead of going down the enormous open-world route.

“It’s about roughly similar to [[i]Assassin’s Creed[/i]] Origins, so it’s smaller than Valhalla in terms of territory,” Simon Lemay-Comtois, associate game director at Ubisoft Quebec, said in an interview with VGC on June 11. “There is some body of water around Japan, but it’s not like Greece was, [which was] half water. With Japan, that’s not the case. We have the coastlines, and Lake Biwa is a very big lake, but [the map’s] roughly the size of Origins.”