Dungeon Keeper and Fable creator Peter Molyneux appeared on stage at Gamescom Tuesday to announce Masters of Albion — “an open-world god game full of combat, choices, mystery, and story,” he said.
Molyneux said he’s getting the old team back together to create Masters of Albion, including folks who helped create Dungeon Keeper, Black & White, and the Fable series. The team is just 20 people. “After messing around on mobile — what the hell was I doing? — I thought to myself, ‘I need to come home to PC and console,’” Molyneux said ahead of the debut.
Masters of Albion is set in Albion, which is a setting in the Fable series, but also another word for Great Britain — so that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s set in the Fable universe. The trailer shows a small village that’s alive with people, controlled and designed by a big floating hand. You can play in the game’s build mode, but you’re also able to take control of world’s characters to play in a third-person mode to defend from monsters.
Though this is the first look at Masters of Albion, Molyneux actually teased the game in October 2023: “This may be a decision I live to regret, but I am starting regular blog about the crazy way I design games; namely a new game set in the land of Albion called MOAT.”
Molyneux is notorious for talking up his games, promising things that don’t live up to expectations. He spoke to writer Simon Parkin on the My Perfect Console podcast and said he had “enormous regret for it.”
“And when I used to go back after interviews, a lot of the team members would say ‘Peter, we didn’t know that we’re going to have this feature in the game’ until they read it in the press,” Molyneux told Parkin. Molyneux did not promise much within the Masters of Albion preview, just that the team is dedicated to building something “new, unique, and different.”
