Fable Reboot Release Window Set for Fall 2026, Launches Day 1 on PS5

As announced astatine the extremity of the Fable conception of today's Xbox Developer Direct, Playground Games' reboot of Fable volition beryllium released successful autumn 2026 for PC (including Steam), Xbox Series X and S, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and PlayStation 5. As a first-party Microsoft game, Fable besides launches time 1 successful subscription service, Game Pass.

Though a circumstantial merchandise day has not yet been confirmed, it's astir apt tenable to presume that Fable volition beryllium released anterior to November, truthful arsenic to debar being swallowed up by the impending merchandise of Grand Theft Auto 6 connected November 19. But the day-one merchandise connected PS5 is interesting, if lone due to the fact that Playground's ain different 2026 release, Forza Horizon 6, volition debut connected Xbox archetypal earlier making its mode to PS5 later.

"Every task squad is deciding these things, deciding what's close for their peculiar title," Playground workplace caput and Fable manager Ralph Fulton told IGN successful an interrogation up of the showcase.

"And adjacent wrong Playground, we person 2 projects which person made somewhat antithetic decisions, though the endpoint is the same. And I deliberation arsenic a crippled developer, the astir important happening to maine is that the top fig of radical play my games arsenic possible. That's what we're successful this for. I deliberation that's existent of astir developers. We privation the largest fig of radical to acquisition our games and bask them."

Fable was antecedently delayed retired of 2025 aft being primitively unveiled each the mode backmost successful 2020 and fixed its archetypal due look astatine 2023's Xbox Showcase. For more, cheque retired IGN's interrogation with Playground workplace caput and Fable manager Ralph Fulton successful full. And beryllium definite to cheque retired everything announced astatine the Xbox Developer Direct.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of some IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, arsenic good arsenic our semi-retired interrogation show, IGN Unfiltered. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.