Today we're sharing four minutes of new @fable gameplay. It's been a long road to bring this franchise back, and I'm proud of the work Playground Games is doing. Take a look. pic.twitter.com/q74VcEt5xE
— ASHA (@asha_shar) November 12, 2026
Four more minutes of Playground Games’ Fable reboot are now online. The clip follows the Hero of Briar Hill on a quest into Deepwood and is the latest look at a game due on 23 February 2027.
Briar Hill is where it all goes wrong for our hero. In the opening, a mysterious stranger turns the village, the hero’s grandmother included, to stone, and you head out into Albion to work out why. The game is open-world, so a petrified granny does not stop you buying a cottage, opening a shop or getting distracted by a talking pig first. This is very much in keeping with Fable tradition. Lionhead’s 2004 original famously promised that an acorn you planted would grow into a tree as the game went on. It didn’t, and players have been checking under every reboot ever since.
The details are settled. Fable launches on 23 February 2027 on Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam and the Microsoft Store) and PlayStation 5, and it is on Game Pass from day one. Premium Edition owners can start five days early, on 18 February. Playground is developing it with Eidos-Montréal. It was originally due in 2026 and was moved to February, in Xbox’s words, so it could have its own moment rather than share a holiday season with a certain Rockstar game. Hayley Atwell is among the cast.
What the footage so far suggests is a world that keeps Fable’s mix of pastoral English whimsy and sudden brutality. Albion has always looked like a Constable painting that has been reading Terry Pratchett. Whether Playground can do the series’ trademark humour without it feeling like a theme-park re-enactment is the real question, and we won’t have the answer until February. For now, Deepwood looks suitably damp and ominous, and nobody in the clip appears to be selling acorns.
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