Masters of Albion, Peter Molyneux’s ‘Culmination of His Work to Date’, Will Launch in Early Access as Actually the First Chapter in a Planned Trilogy

Masters of Albion, the caller God crippled from 22cans, whitethorn good beryllium “the culmination” of legendary developer Peter Molyneux’s vocation to date, but we whitethorn not spot its extremity for galore years to travel — owed to it being the archetypal portion of a planned trilogy.

“So this is an epic,” Molyneux tells IGN. “We are reasoning astir 3 epic chapters, I accidental you'd telephone them. Then what we'll beryllium releasing into aboriginal entree volition beryllium section one, and it's going to instrumentality america rather a fewer years to get to section three.”

“But this section one, it has a story. It starts arsenic a classical communicative of a leader coming and uncovering his power. There was an adversary who was doing thing awful. There was a confrontation. It's a classic. This archetypal section is simply a classical bushed of that communicative story. There's going to beryllium love, loss, hate, and betrayal successful that archetypal occurrence of the story. So it is simply a implicit game. We are conscionable reasoning bigger alternatively than, right, this is the game. That's it. We've ever been reasoning astir this bigger story.”

It’s ambitious, a connection that has followed Molyneux astir for overmuch of his career, whether that beryllium the technologically driven Project Milo, oregon the experimental Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube? While immoderate of these projects whitethorn not person fulfilled their archetypal promise, galore of the British developer’s games person go favourites implicit the decades. Not least, Fable, of which Molyneux compares successful communicative operation to Masters of Albion.

“If you deliberation of Fable, determination was Fable 1,” says Molyneux. “We were ever reasoning erstwhile we were reasoning of Fable; right, we privation clip to determination connected a lot, and truthful the adjacent contented of Fable is hundreds of years successful the future. We thought of that earlier we adjacent finished Fable 1.

“Whereas thing similar Black & White, we didn't truly deliberation beyond Black & White 2. So erstwhile we came to Black and White 2, that felt a small spot clumsy due to the fact that determination wasn't a continuation. So Masters of Albion volition decorativeness connected a huge… well, I can't accidental anything. There is simply a hint successful the gameplay trailer astatine the precise end.”

The champion laid plans are each good and good, but Molyneux is besides afloat alert that for 2 much chapters of the Masters of Albion bid to beryllium made, determination needs to beryllium some hunger from its audience, and the fiscal heft to bash so.

“My wide tendency is that Masters of Albion conscionable brings joyousness to people,” Molyneux continues. “And if it brings joyousness to radical and determination are capable people, we'll decidedly beryllium going guardant with Master Albion 2 and 3. But you request wealth to bash this.”

Masters of Albion volition beryllium released connected Steam connected April 22, 2026. Do you program connected playing it? Let america cognize successful the comments below. For more, you tin cheque retired much details connected the deity game, oregon work astir what made watching the caller Fable’s gameplay uncover truthful affectional for Peter Molyneux.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.