Fancy forming your own opinion of Peter Molyneux’s supposed final ever game, Masters of Albion? Outside of just commenting on a trailer that plays all the hits, that is? Well, you can, maybe, if you’re lucky enough, as Mr. Molyneux himself has put out a call for you to sign up to beta test the game ahead of its release next month.
To do so, you’ll need to do one thing first: join the game’s Discord server. In there, you’ll find a channel that links to a form to fill in to be in with a chance of testing the game out. You can also just check out this form here, but it does ask for your Discord handle, so I imagine you’ll still have to drop in to offer your feedback and probably gain access in the first place.
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The form asks the usual demographic type questions like what your age and gender is, but it also asks if you play games like The Sims 4, Manor Lords, Frostpunk, and of course, Fable, so it’s definitely after the simulation kind of crowd overall. Oh, and you’ll have to be willing to sign an NDA. I do wonder if holding a test like this seemingly so close to launch – right now it’s due out April 22nd, less than a month away – will lead to some sort of a delay. That really doesn’t leave much time for tweaks be they big or small! It all sounds a tad crunchy, if you ask me.
If you’ve somehow missed Molyneux’s soon to be latest and potentially last ever god game, on the face of it it appears to be the culmination of decades worth of pent up hubris. You are an omnipotent, omniscient actual god-hand that can do as it pleases. This includes the classic poking people around to complete various tasks as you watch from above, but you can also enter the bodies of any of the game’s NPCs to take on more of a classic RPG kind of approach.
It is obviously ambitious in the way all of Molyneux’s games are, and as much as I like to poke fun, there is a part of me that kind of hopes this is the one that works. Though I do have to ignore his repulsive NFT nonsense for that wish to work. I just find the idea of him getting the last laugh funny! And maybe oddly cathartic, in some twisted sense. Anyway, unless a delay does come following this beta test, you should be able to pick up Masters of Albion on Steam April 22nd.
