Far Cry 8 is an upcoming first-person shooter game developed by Ubisoft Toronto and published by Ubisoft. It is the eighth main installment in the Far Cry series and the successor to Far Cry 7 and Far Cry 6. The game is set on the fictional Middle Eastern and North African country of Ummah in the Sahara Desert, ruled as a dictatorship by Ahriman Sayyid. Sayyid was based on real life Ba'athist dictator Saddam Hussein in Iraq who kidnapped, arrested, tortured and killed many ethnic political dissidents of Ummah before the liberation.
