Peter Molyneux has announced a new god game, Masters of Albion. It looks great!

Peter Molyneux, the game designer behind classic series Black & White and Dungeon Keeper and Fable, is also known for making promises he could not keep. He has earned a reputation for being the quintessential developer who talks too much. This story culminated when Molyneux released a mobile game that involved clicking on a cube. He promised a life-changing reward to anyone who reached the center. However, this prize was not life-changing.

In 2016, Sean Murray, the director of No Man's Sky, became the new favorite overpromiser in the games industry. Although his mobile games studio carried on as usual, it appeared that Molyneux's career as a PC games designer was over.

Surprise! Surprise! What can I say about this game? This guy has a great pitch. This time he doesn't promise anything crazy like a life-changing cubicle.

The game is called Masters of Albion. It's an old-school god game, complete with a hand cursor that you can use to pick and throw your little fantasy residents. You can also fight monsters as a third-person action game, and then pull out to the overhead perspective to zap them with your god powers.

The most interesting aspect of Masters of Albion appears to be the crafting system. It seems very flexible. The player equips a citizen with a bread-based sword at one point in the trailer.

"You can design everything: the food people eat, clothes they wear, weapons they use, armor they fight with," declares Molyneux. "Every creation has a strategy." I can feed them rats."

Masters of Albion will be released on PC and console by a 20-person team. Molyneux apologized for "messing about on mobile" during Opening Night Live.

What the hell was I up to? "I thought to myself, I need to go home to PC and Console," he said. "I've looked at Dungeon Keeper and I've taken a few things that I wanted to explore more with Dungeon Keeper. I did the same thing with Black & White. "I've done it with Fable."

Molyneux funded the game himself - no Kickstarter this time - and the team of twenty includes developers who worked with those classics. Molyneux stated, "I first realized that I had to get the old team together again."

If Sean Murray was able to overcome the negative reaction to the launch of No Man's Sky, even going so far as to have fans buy a billboard in his honor, maybe Molyneux can do the same?

The Steam page for Masters of Albion does not yet have a release date.