Playground Games provided many details on what to anticipate for its upcoming Fable reboot in yesterday’s Xbox deep-dive at Developer Direct. The developers didn’t beat across the bush when the query arose regarding whether or not they planned to follow in the trail laid out by LionHead with the unique trilogy. The short answer is that Playground knows that it’s not Lionhead and doesn’t intend to try and make a Lionhead game.
“Look, we’re not Lionhead—we will’t attempt to make a Lionhead game.’ This needs to be Playground game because I’m a very firm believer that the personality and the character of a team is visible within the work they do and the games they make.”
– Ralph Fulton, Founder amd General Manager Playground Games
Fans of the unique games mustn’t immediately turn out to be disenchanted with this statement since it quickly becomes apparent that Playground Games isn’t throwing every little thing to the wind and scrapping all that made the franchise so endearing to many. In reality, the developers have emphasized sticking to the British-styled humor and sensibilities employed in the unique games. They’ve also acknowledged acquiring notes and documents for the unique games, which show a spotlight that Fable was all the time intended to be a fairytale game, somewhat than a fantasy RPG.
“Once we began working on this project, we got a treasure trove of documents from Lionhead that had been in storage. Something that I assumed was just brilliantly succinct was one among the documents, which said: ‘Fable is Fairytale, not Fantasy’—which is just super neat.”
– Ralph Fulton, Founder amd General Manager Playground Games
The developers have added that players will give you the option to completely customize their characters, and identical to the primary game, characters will begin as a toddler who then ages as they progress through the story. Players will give you the option to completely explore an open world where, once more, they are going to develop a status based on their actions. From the way you treat folks to critters and decisions regarding conflicts, many things can affect how the over 1,000 NPCs and the world interact with players.
“So if an individual sees you kicking a chicken, you’ll begin to get a status as a ‘Chicken Chaser’—and if enough people see you do it, otherwise you do it lots, that status will turn out to be one among the belongings you’re known for in that settlement. And other people will react to you based on what they consider that specific status.”
– Ralph Fulton, Founder amd General Manager Playground Games
“The identical applies for being generous, or being a bigamist, or being a thief, and so forth. There are a big variety of these reputations you can get—you will have a word cloud of reputations in every settlement, they usually may be different from place to position. It means you’ll be able to create completely different identities in all the several settlements by being a distinct person and behaving in other ways.”
– Ralph Fulton, Founder amd General Manager Playground Games
Fable is about to launch for PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5 in Autumn 2026. More details from the Xbox Developer Direct may be found here.