Ubisoft’s Gods and Monsters Gameplay leaks due to bug in Google Stadia

An in-development build of Ubisoft’s Gods & Monsters seemingly leaked on to Google Stadia last night, with players posting a series of gameplay clips to Reddit.

It looks like the game appeared under the codename Orpheus for a limited time of 30 mins on the Google Stadia app, before quickly being taken down.

This early build clearly was never meant to be shown to the public – a lot of the footage features placeholder assets, and its menus look grafted wholesale from Ubisoft’s other Grecian open-world game, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.

The game appears to feature a stamina bar for climbing which is very similar to the one used in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. 

We also get a glimpse at a placeholder for Hermes, who talks about bringing other gods to the ‘Hall Of the Gods’ where many of these clips are set.

Previously, we had only seen a cinematic trailer for Gods and Monsters, though this could change quickly as we approach the Ubisoft Forward conference, which is set to air on July 12th. In other Ubisoft news, the studio has confirmed that it plans to release five AAA games between Late 2021 and early 2021.

Google has seen its fair share of issues since launching its cloud-based gaming platform, Stadia. First it had a rough launch with pre-order numbers being underwhelming, leaving many in the community ready to start the Google’s-about-to-jump-out-of-its-sinking-ship countdown.

Prior to the launch of Stadia, there were also concerns over Google’s history of monopolising certain markets, due to it influence over searches and advertising on the internet.

Google Stadia was released on November 19 2019. The machines used for the service are reported to run at 10.7 teraflops (the metric sometimes used to measure processor and graphics performance), but some gamers didn’t get a feel for that when playing popular games like Destiny on the service.

So, Google was criticized for not delivering on its early Stadia promises, but it has recently announced that it is working to fix this.