Peter Molyneux’s subsequent god sport, Masters of Albion, will launch on April 22 solely on PC by way of Steam, developer 22cans has introduced.
Molyneux first appeared at 2024’s Gamescom Opening Evening Reside to announce Masters of Albion, a wholly self-funded sport that he mentioned was an “open-world God sport” drawing on components from all his earlier work, resembling Black & White, Populous, Dungeon Keeper, and Fable.
On Monday, 22cans revealed a brand new trailer and particulars on the sport, which is being developed by a crew of business stalwarts, together with Media Molecule co-founder and longtime Molyneux collaborator, Mark Healey, who created artwork for traditional video games like Blac & White, Fable, and Theme Park.
Desires and LittleBigPlanet director Healey left Media Molecule in 2023. His LinkedIn profile confirms he’s since taken on the position of artwork director at 22Cans and is worked up “to be working in a small crew with pretty individuals driving wave of artistic instinct”.
Additionally engaged on the sport is BAFTA-nominated composer Russell Shaw, who created music and audio for over a decade of basic Bullfrog and Lionhead video games; Black & White 2 designer Iain Wright; and LittleBigPlanet artwork director Kareem Ettouney.
“Mixing technique, simulation, city administration, and real-time defence, the sport provides gamers extraordinary freedom to play the sport the way in which they need to play it,” reads a synopsis for Masters of Albion.
“Taking inspiration from a few of Peter’s basic titles, Masters of Albion is a return to kind, mixing gameplay mechanics from a number of genres, technique with simulation, city administration with defence, to reinvigorate the god sport, and provides gamers the ability and freedom to create. Or destroy…”
Peter Molyneux mentioned in an announcement: “Masters of Albion is the end result of my life’s work, a sport that owes a lot to titles like Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and Fable.
“It’s a very distinctive sport that we hope will delight gamers, a sport that brings God Video games into the trendy gaming panorama and places the style firmly again on the map.”
Beforehand, Molyneux has mentioned he sees Masters of Albion as an opportunity at redemption after “overpromising” on formidable initiatives like the web cell titles, Curiosity: What’s within the Dice. The designer additionally claimed this may seemingly be his closing sport, as a result of his age.
“I admit now that I did overpromise on issues, and mentioned issues that I shouldn’t have mentioned about Curiosity,” he informed Edge Journal final 12 months. “However I solely ever did that as a result of I believed it was the fitting factor to do on the time. And so, Masters of Albion is a redemption title for me. But additionally, it’s my final sport. It simply is.”
