22cans drops their official launch trailer for Masters of Albion today. Launching into Early Access at $24.99 (USD) minus an early adopters 10% discount via Steam on the 22 April 2026 at 18:00 BST. Masters of Albion blends city-building, simulation, and real-time combat into a single player-driven experience defined by freedom, creativity, and consequence. In the words of its creator, Peter Molyneux, Masters of Albion is the culmination of a lifetime’s work in the games industry, bringing together mechanics from previous much-loved titles like Black & White, the Fable series, and Dungeon Keeper.
With systems-driven gameplay at the heart of the game, Masters of Albion reimagines and reinvigorates the God Game genre, placing complete control in the hands of players, and ensuring that every decision made carries weight.
Early impressions have highlighted this pulling together of previous titles. Following a studio visit, Jörg Langer of GamersGlobal wrote:
“It feels like a best of the best of Molyneux titles – yet it still has its own ideas.”
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This sentiment reflects a return to form for Peter Molyneux and the team at 22cans, with Masters of Albion positioned as both a homage to the foundations of the genre and a step forward in how those systems are realised.
By day, players can navigate through the story, explore the world and design, build, and
manage fully customisable towns with a freedom not found in many city builders.
By night, however, players find themselves in a very different world, one in which they must defend their towns against increasingly volatile threats from the creatures of the night in real-time combat, utilising every power they have available to them to keep their towns from destruction.
This contrast between creation and survival sits at the heart of the experience, allowing players to enjoy the juxtaposition of a cosy day of god work helping your people live and work, and the terrors of a night where every second is marked with danger.
Masters of Albion is built around experimentation, bringing together ideas that defined earlier god games with new mechanics that expand how players interact with a modern game world.
Developed by a team that includes Peter Molyneux, Mark Healey, Russell Shaw, Kareem Ettouney and Iain Wright, Masters of Albion combines decades of experience in game development across all disciplines. It is a team that is packed with the people behind genre-defining titles such as Fable, Black & White, and Dungeon Keeper, bringing those influences together into a modern interpretation of the God Game.
Players can wishlist the game on Steam ahead of its Early Access launch on April 22nd.
Players who purchase and play within the first week of release will receive an exclusive Founders Paint Pack, a limited set of premium in-game colours available only to early supporters.
