Peter Molyneux’s Ultimate Sport, Masters Of Albion, Will get April Launch Date

Peter Molyneux, the thoughts behind the Fable sequence, Populous, and Black & White, introduced his subsequent sport, Masters of Albion, throughout Gamescom 2024. His subsequent – and ultimate – sport 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 fruits of my life’s work,” in a press launch. Gamers tackle the position of a robust god possessing a “god hand” able to designing and constructing total villages from the ground-up.

Buildings could be custom-made, and various kinds of buildings could be mixed to type new constructing varieties. As you lord over your human residents, you’ll be able to manipulate them through possession, encourage them with divine acts, or punish them utilizing skills equivalent 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’ll be able to discover Albion from the heavens, management people or animals equivalent 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, equivalent to turrets, establishing partitions and different buildings to funnel enemies the place wanted, and hiring heroes to guard the populace. It’s also possible to possess heroes to combat monsters immediately in real-time fight.

Masters of Albion is 22 Cans’ first sport since launching The Path: Frontier Problem in 2017. In October 2025, Molyneux instructed Video Video games Chronicle that the sport serves as a type of “redemption” following 22 Cans’ earlier tasks through which he overpromised and underdelivered, equivalent to 2012’s Curiosity: What’s Contained in the Dice and 2014’s Godus. He additionally acknowledged that Masters of Albion can be the ultimate sport 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 instructed VGC final October. “However I solely ever did that as a result of I assumed it was the suitable factor to do on the time. And so, Masters of Albion is a redemption title for me. But in addition, it’s my final sport. It simply is.”

It is sensible, then, why Molyneux payments Masters of Albion because the nexus of each sport he’s labored on, from Dungeon Keeper to Fable. “It’s a completely 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,” says Molyneux in right this moment’s announcement. 

Masters of Albion will likely be accessible solely on PC through Steam.