22cans Ltd is a British video game developer based in Guildford. It was founded in February 2012 by

Peter Molyneux Peter Douglas Molyneux (; born 5 May 1959) is an English video game designer and programmer. He created the god games '' Populous'', ''Dungeon Keeper'', and ''Black & White'', as well as ''Theme Park'', the ''Fable'' series, '' Curiosity: Wh ...

, previously of

Bullfrog Productions Bullfrog Productions Limited was a British video game developer based in Guildford, England. Founded in 1987 by Peter Molyneux and Les Edgar, the company gained recognition in 1989 for their third release, '' Populous'', and is also well know ...

and

Lionhead Studios Lionhead Studios Limited was a British video game developer founded in July 1997 by Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley, Tim Rance, and Steve Jackson. The company is best known for the ''Black & White'' and ''Fable'' series. Lionhead started as a br ...

History

, who had previously founded

and

, established 22cans on 20 February 2012 in Farnborough. To do so, he left Lionhead and partnered with Tim Rance and Peter Murphy, Lionhead's former chief technology officer and company director, respectively. Molyneux first announced the establishment on 7 March. By April that year, he had received more than 1,000 applications. Significant hires were Jack Attridge in July 2012 and Jamie Stowe in April 2013. 22cans' first game was '' Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?'', which was released for Android and

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on 6 November 2012. In 2015, following the troubled launch of ''

Godus ''Godus'' is a god video game developed by the independent company 22cans and published by DeNA. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds and met their funding goal of () on 20 December 2012. ''Godus'' was designed by Peter M ...

'', Simon Phillips was hired as the company's

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, replacing Molyneux, who would henceforth focus on game design. Attridge had left the studio by April 2015, while ''Godus'' designer, Konrad Naszynski, left in June 2016. In February 2019, 22cans announced ''Legacy'', a game inspired by Molyneux's first released game, ''The Entrepreneur'' (1984). The studio underwent an undisclosed number of layoffs in February 2021, though confirming that development would continue. Molyneux announced in December 2021 that ''Legacy'' will incorporate blockchain-based elements including

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s, which will allow players to sell and purchase virtual goods as part of the business simulation gameplay.

Games developed

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