Peter Molyneux declares new sport, Masters of Albion

Dungeon Keeper and Fable creator Peter Molyneux appeared on stage at Gamescom Tuesday to announce Masters of Albion — “an open-world god sport stuffed with fight, selections, thriller, and story,” he stated.

Molyneux stated he’s getting the outdated crew again collectively to create Masters of Albion, together with people who helped create Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and the Fable collection. The crew is simply 20 individuals. “After messing round on cellular — what the hell was I doing? — I assumed to myself, ‘I would like to return house to PC and console,’” Molyneux stated forward of the debut.

Masters of Albion is ready in Albion, which is a setting within the Fable collection, but additionally one other phrase for Nice Britain — in order that doesn’t essentially imply it’s set within the Fable universe. The trailer reveals a small village that’s alive with individuals, managed and designed by a giant floating hand. You possibly can play within the sport’s construct mode, however you’re additionally capable of take management of world’s characters to play in a third-person mode to defend from monsters.

Although that is the primary have a look at Masters of Albion, Molyneux truly teased the sport in October 2023: “This can be a call I dwell to remorse, however I’m beginning common weblog in regards to the loopy manner I design video games; particularly a brand new sport set within the land of Albion referred to as MOAT.”

Molyneux is infamous for speaking up his video games, promising issues that don’t dwell as much as expectations. He spoke to author Simon Parkin on the My Excellent Console podcast and stated he had “monumental remorse for it.”

“And once I used to return after interviews, quite a lot of the crew members would say ‘Peter, we didn’t know that we’re going to have this characteristic within the sport’ till they learn it within the press,” Molyneux informed Parkin. Molyneux didn’t promise a lot inside the Masters of Albion preview, simply that the crew is devoted to constructing one thing “new, distinctive, and totally different.”