From Forza to Fable: Playground Games' 6-Year Leap of Faith

Playground Games admits they've been itching to escape Forza Horizon since 2017 — but will their Fable reboot finally deliver?

The first conversations we had about doing something other than Forza Horizon and building a second team go right the way back to the year after we shipped Forza Horizon 3.

We felt great about that... The conversation around building a second team and doing something else, doing something different, was really about wanting to challenge ourselves.

Fable is confirmed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC with a 2026 release window. Playground Games emphasized their identity as a distinct studio from Lionhead, stating:

We're not Lionhead, we're a different studio with different people and a different culture. It would be inauthentic for us to try and just make Fable 4.

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