Peter Molyneux, the thoughts behind the Fable sequence, Populous, and Black & White, introduced his subsequent recreation, Masters of Albion, throughout Gamescom 2024. His subsequent – and last – recreation is coming to PC on April 22.
Masters of Albion comes from Molyneux’s studio, 22 Cans, and blends components of real-time technique, city administration, and simulation to an expertise Molyneux describes as “the end result of my life’s work,” in a press launch. Gamers tackle the position of a strong god possessing a “god hand” able to designing and constructing complete villages from the ground-up.
Buildings will be personalized, and various kinds of buildings will be mixed to type new constructing varieties. As you lord over your human residents, you may manipulate them through possession, encourage them with divine acts, or punish them utilizing skills akin to climate manipulation and extra. Masters of Albion doesn’t characteristic timers or ready, permitting gamers to rule their worlds at their very own tempo. You may discover Albion from the heavens, management people or animals akin to canine and chickens to absorb the sights on foot. Gamers can full quests to unlock treasures and secrets and techniques, or discover hidden areas to uncover the key historical past of Albion.
When night time falls, the gameplay of Masters of Albion shifts into extra of an RTS as gamers defend villages in opposition to evil creatures that seem in the dead of night. Preventing again entails constructing and putting defensive weapons, akin to turrets, developing partitions and different buildings to funnel enemies the place wanted, and hiring heroes to guard the populace. You may as well possess heroes to struggle monsters straight in real-time fight.
Masters of Albion is 22 Cans’ first recreation since launching The Path: Frontier Problem in 2017. In October 2025, Molyneux advised Video Video games Chronicle that the sport serves as a type of “redemption” following 22 Cans’ earlier tasks by which he overpromised and underdelivered, akin to 2012’s Curiosity: What’s Contained in the Dice and 2014’s Godus. He additionally said that Masters of Albion could be the ultimate recreation of his 43-year profession.
“I admit now that I did overpromise on issues, and mentioned issues that I shouldn’t have mentioned about Curiosity,” Molyneux advised VGC final October. “However I solely ever did that as a result of I assumed it was the best factor to do on the time. And so, Masters of Albion is a redemption title for me. But in addition, it’s my final recreation. It simply is.”
It is sensible, then, why Molyneux payments Masters of Albion because the nexus of each recreation he’s labored on, from Dungeon Keeper to Fable. “It’s a completely distinctive recreation that we hope will delight gamers, a recreation that brings God Video games into the fashionable gaming panorama and places the style firmly again on the map,” says Molyneux in immediately’s announcement.
Masters of Albion will likely be accessible completely on PC through Steam.
