Peter Molyneux's crypto game Legacy fails
players invested roughly $54 million in cryptocurrency into peter molyneux's legacy, a blockchain-based god game that failed shortly after its 2023 launch. the project, published by gala games, delivered a broken economic simulation described as a proto-idle-tapper rather than the promised play-to-earn experience. molyneux stated the upfront funding from legacy financed his new project, masters of albion.
Peter Molyneux's studio 22cans and publisher Gala Games raised approximately $54 million through NFT sales for the crypto game Legacy. Despite promises of a robust economic simulation, the game launched in 2023 with a broken economy that caused players to abandon it within weeks. Former Gala executives described the product as a minimum viable product that failed to deliver on hype, while Molyneux confirmed these funds were used primarily to finance his upcoming title, Masters of Albion.