Peter Molyneux’s 22Cans studio has shared first details on its latest game, a sort of creativity-focussed, workshop-tinkering industrialist sim called Legacy.
Legacy is 22Cans’ fourth title, following on from the fairly well-received hiking oddity The Trail, the ill-fated Godus, and the largely inexplicable cube-prodding weirdness of Curiosity. Its unveiling comes via a lengthy, if somewhat light on detail, video reveal from Red Bull Gaming, which you can see below.
In the video, Molyneux explains that Legacy is inspired by his first-ever game, The Entrepreneur – a sim, released in 1984, about growing a business. Legacy fleshes out that early idea, initially casting players as small-time inventors squirrelled away in a garage workshop.
What follows appears to be a game of two distinct, but interlocking halves. The first, unfolding directly within the workshop, emphasises creative freedom. Here, players are able to combine various pre-fabricated building elements to create anything that takes their fancy – whether that be a toy bear, a telephone, or something more outlandish. At a certain point, however, Legacy shifts gears and turns into an experience more closely resembling an industrialist sim.