Peter Molyneux–creator of Fable and various popular “god” games like Black & White–has released what he says is his final game, the “culmination of [his] life’s work,” and proof that he’s done over-promising and under-delivering: Masters of Albion, a “god game” that launched in early access yesterday. But rather than feeling like an omnipotent god, players say the game makes them feel like they’re trapped in a medieval version of Cooking Mama.
“The main gameplay loop seems to center more or less around a Cooking Mama style mini-game,” one player wrote on Steam, where the game’s user reviews are currently “mixed.”
Masters of Albion’s Steam page describes it as “A bold reimagining of the god game genre from the creator who defined it,” and explains that players can “shape a living world as a god–or step into it and experience it through [its] people.” The game includes building, town defense, and other typical life-sim-meets-strategy-game genre staples. But it also includes a whole lot of painstaking Cooking Mama-esque sandwich-making, apparently.
