Masters of Albion, the new God recreation from 22cans, could be “the end result” of legendary developer Peter Molyneux’s profession to date, however we could not see its finish for a few years to come — due to it being the first half of a deliberate trilogy.
“So that is an epic,” Molyneux tells IGN. “We’re desirous about three epic chapters, I suppose you’d name them. Then what we’ll be releasing into early entry can be chapter one, and it is going to take us fairly a few years to get to chapter three.”
“However this chapter one, it has a story. It begins as a basic story of a hero coming and discovering his energy. There was an adversary who was doing one thing terrible. There was a confrontation. It is a basic. This primary chapter is a basic beat of that narrative story. There’s going to be love, loss, hate, and betrayal in that first episode of the story. So it’s a full recreation. We’re simply pondering greater quite than, proper, that is the recreation. That is it. We have at all times been desirous about this greater story.”
It’s bold, a phrase that has adopted Molyneux round for a lot of his profession, whether or not that be the technologically pushed Mission Milo, or the experimental Curiosity – What’s Inside the Dice? Whereas some of these tasks could not have fulfilled their preliminary promise, many of the British developer’s video games have turn into favourites over the many years. Not least, Fable, of which Molyneux compares in narrative construction to Masters of Albion.
“When you suppose of Fable, there was Fable 1,” says Molyneux. “We have been at all times pondering once we have been pondering of Fable; proper, we would like time to transfer on a lot, and so the subsequent situation of Fable is tons of of years in the future. We thought of that earlier than we even completed Fable 1.
“Whereas one thing like Black & White, we did not actually suppose past Black & White 2. So once we got here to Black and White 2, that felt a little bit clumsy as a result of there wasn’t a continuation. So Masters of Albion will end on a large… effectively, I am unable to say something. There’s a trace in the gameplay trailer at the very finish.”
The perfect laid plans are all effectively and good, however Molyneux can be absolutely conscious that for 2 extra chapters of the Masters of Albion sequence to be made, there wants to be each starvation from its viewers, and the monetary heft to accomplish that.
“My general want is that Masters of Albion simply brings pleasure to individuals,” Molyneux continues. “And if it brings pleasure to individuals and there are sufficient individuals, we’ll positively be going ahead with Grasp Albion 2 and three. However you want cash to do that.”
Masters of Albion can be launched on Steam on April 22, 2026. Do you intend on enjoying it? Tell us in the feedback under. For extra, you possibly can try extra particulars on the god recreation, or examine what made watching the new Fable’s gameplay reveal so emotional for Peter Molyneux.
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing at the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Observe him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.