#Are they making a fable 4 series#

Speaking on the Dropped Frames podcast (via VGC (opens in new tab)), Spencer said:

#Are they making a fable 4 series#

Take confidence in Playground Games, says Phil Spencerįable 4 is being created by Playground Games, the studio perhaps best known for its work on the Forza Horizon series but Phil Spencer wants fans to have confidence in the studio. In our opinion, the kind of sword-and-spells combat of The Witcher 3, one of the bestselling video games of all time, would be a perfect template for a Fable game, especially given how similar some of the in-game spells are. As reported by PCGamesN (opens in new tab), gameplay designer Paweł Kapała is heading up the combat at Fable developer Playground Games, with his LinkedIn page confirming the role entails 'designing and implementing combat in Fable.'

Though we don’t know a huge amount about Fable at the moment, the idea that it’s been in the works for multiple years gives us some hope that we could learn more in the near future.įable 4's combat could feel like The WitcherĪ developer from CD Projekt RED (The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077) will be working on the game's combat system. That means the game’s been in development for at least four years and that development possibly started just a year after series creator, Lionhead Studios, was closed. In a recent tweet, a developer at Playground Games who is working on the game celebrated “four years of working on Fable”. As a highly-anticipated Xbox exclusive that we haven't heard all that much about in recent months, it certainly seems like the perfect time for an update.įable 4 has been in development for longer than you might have expected. There may be no E3 taking place in 2022 but there will still be an Xbox and Bethesda showcase on June 12, with news on “titles coming from Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda, and our partners around the world”.Ī runtime for the show hasn’t been confirmed just yet and Xbox hasn’t revealed exactly which games will be featured at the show either but we sincerely hope that Fable 4 will be one of the games shown during the conference. The trailer doesn't reveal a whole lot, but does suggest that the game could be set well before the later entries in the series as we don't get as much of a sense of a Victorian-style industrial revolution as we did in Fable 3's setting. Instead, it appears that Fable 4 will have a medieval fantasy setting perhaps more like the original game, with the trailer showing a sword, fairies, overgrown toadstools and greedy toads. Right now, only one Fable trailer has been released: the world premiere announcement trailer. It's unknown if it'll arrive on Xbox One consoles, since we've seen big cross-gen games like Halo Infinite and Forza Horizon 5, but we're not holding out hope as Microsoft hasn't confirmed anything. As an Xbox exclusive, Fable 4 will release for Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC, where it'll be available on Xbox Game Pass from day one.

We do, however, know the platforms we can expect Fable 4 to land on. That's backed up by the June 2022 Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase focusing on games launching 'in the next twelve months,' and Fable wasn't present.

At the very least, Phil Spencer hinted during an IGN podcast (opens in new tab) that we'll get it before The Elder Scrolls 6, though that game doesn't have a release date yet either and isn't expected to land sometime after Starfield's release (which has since been delayed to 2023).