10 Video Games That Were Sold On Lies

10. Fable: The Journey

Peter Molyneux deserves his own section on this list, but for the sake of brevity, it’s best to focus on his most easily digestible untruths. The Fable creator has a long and depressing history when it comes to telling porkies.

Godus - Molyneux’s recent return to the god-game genre – spectacularly failed to deliver on its most infamous promise, that the winner of Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube? would appear in the game as an all-powerful deity. Even the original Fable, a game that was otherwise very well received, shall forever be synonymous with broken promises.

While hyping his new fantasy franchise, Peter went a little off book, and proclaimed that if players knocked an acorn from a tree, a new tree would grow there in its place. The feature never materialised in the game, but it did serve as the seed for all of Molyneux’s future fibs.

His most blatant lie came while promoting Fable: The Journey, a Kinect exclusive game about riding a horse and cart. Molyneux claimed on several occasions that the game wouldn’t be ‘on rails’, but players were unsurprised to find that The Journey was indeed, completely linear.