When we heard that the Fable series was back, many of us took to calling the next game in the series Fable 4. However, as more and more has been revealed about the game, it’s become clear that this is not a continuation from Fable 3 – or even from the previous two games.
Now, it’s been confirmed by Playground Games that Fable is very much a reboot. An FAQ on the newly launched website for the game sheds some more light on this, explaining that Fable is not part of the original Fable trilogy, so don’t expect it to tie in much at all.
Fable Won’t Tie Into The Original Trilogy, And We Can’t Jump Into A Friend’s Game
“Though the game we’re making is very much faithful to the spirit of the classic Lionhead trilogy, Fable is a new beginning for the Fable franchise and isn’t a continuation of the original games,” reads part of the FAQ.
Admittedly, few of us expected Fable to pick up where Fable 3 left off. That last game in the Lionhead trilogy took us up to the Industrial Revolution, and centres around the descendant of the heroic bloodline taking the throne and ruling Albion, so it’s unclear how much further you can take it from there while still being a Fable game.
However, it is surprising that it’s not even wedging itself between the other games. Some of us thought it would bridge the gap between Fable and Fable 2, given its aesthetic. In fact, Albion is quite bad at recording and remembering its own history, so it would have still made sense from a lore perspective to have a bunch of stuff go down between games, and then not be mentioned in Fable 2 and 3.
The FAQ also confirms another difference between the reboot and its predecessors: there will be no multiplayer. Playground says that Fable is a solely single-player game, so it’s scrapping the drop-in multiplayer that was present in Fable 2 and 3. In fairness, that was always a bit awkwardly implemented, with the second player not really being able to contribute much outside of helping out in combat, or killing your spouse for no reason, but even that was a core Fable memory for many of us.
In any case, we’ll have to wait and see if the Fable revival brings the series back to its glory days. It finds itself launching at a difficult time for Microsoft, as the Xbox brand suffers and many exclusives are being ported to PS5 – Fable included. On top of that, many are boycotting Xbox-published games due to Microsoft being a BDS target.
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2026
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Playground Games
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unreal engine 4, forza tech
