Wednesday, November 26th 2025
Early Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Gameplay Test Footage leaks
Not too long ago, we reported on a supposed release window for the upcoming Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake by Ubisoft. Now, however, a fresh leak from u/siliconwolf13 on Reddit has revealed early gameplay footage from the beleaguered Prince of Persia game. The test footage itself comes out of a presentation deck that was used for focus groups in 2024, so the game has likely changed significantly since then, but the bones of the game shown off in the footage may still be present when the eventual 2026 launch date rolls around.
The footage shown off in the test clips reveal just what you'd expect from a game early in development—incomplete textures, some unshaded environments, and an overall lack of polish. However, some of what is shown in the clips is impressively smooth looking parkour and the makings of a modern game. The footage came alongside some behind-the-scenes clips with the developers and artists talking about how they have tried to stay true to the spirit and mysticism of the original Sands of Time game while still modernizing things like the visuals and gameplay mechanics—notably parkour and platforming mechanics—where they can.
Source:
u/siliconwolf13 on Reddit
The footage shown off in the test clips reveal just what you'd expect from a game early in development—incomplete textures, some unshaded environments, and an overall lack of polish. However, some of what is shown in the clips is impressively smooth looking parkour and the makings of a modern game. The footage came alongside some behind-the-scenes clips with the developers and artists talking about how they have tried to stay true to the spirit and mysticism of the original Sands of Time game while still modernizing things like the visuals and gameplay mechanics—notably parkour and platforming mechanics—where they can.
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On topic, this seems more of a full remake than the previous version. Them deciding to go for a combat update is unsurprising - it’s one thing in SoT almost universally agreed upon to be sub-par (though it’s far from as bad as some people meme). They better not touch anything else, SoT is otherwise basically a perfect game and I doubt that modern Ubi Montreal clowns can do any better than Mechner and Desilets.
Let's just the very first PC game I played was Boulder Dash.
This being Ubisoft though... LOL
Even Jake Gyllenhaal and Gemma Arterton from the whitewashed Hollywood movie look more Persian than these new models.
the JapaneseUbisoft for leaving PoP 2008 storyline in limbo and never making a sequel. That was an interesting plot thread to follow and they just… decided to forever pump out banal AC sequels.But I don’t know what can be expected from the company who failed making Beyond Good and Evil 2 so hard that Ancel just bailed and swore never to work with them again… and then they just cancelled the project, lmao.
It's right there in the name, he's supposed to be a Prince from Persia.
What. the. hell.
So far, many of the Ubi's greatest games, were yet unfinished. I guess "re-storing"/re-publishing them with full-scale issue fixing, would be a much better treatment to these game-legends.
Best regards!
Original is one of my favourite, "magical" ones (damn I am old), I really hope they can recreate that at some level.