Playground Games is yet to officially confirm a release date for Fable aside from a general Autumn 2026 window, but this has left many wondering how the open-world RPG will deal with the juggernaut that is the November 19th release of Grand Theft Auto 6. Thankfully, it looks like the plan is to release Fable before Rockstar’s title. As caught by Reddit users, Fable has popped up on South Korea’s Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea and game ratings board in Australia.
Both have noted that Fable wouldn’t be appropriate for minors to play, owing to the presence of “frequent killing, bloodshed, and bodily mutilation using weapons”, “direct criminal acts based on user choices”, and “excessive use of vulgar language and profanity.”
While a release date hasn’t been revealed, a title rated in South Korea is usually four to five months away from release. An example of this is Tekken 8, which was rated in August 2023 and came out in January 2024. With that in mind, it looks like Fable might be on track for release in either September or October, handily avoiding Grand Theft Auto 6’s blast radius.
Playground Games recently shipped a critically-acclaimed racing game—Forza Horizon 6—and announced through a social media post that it is still bolstering its team to get Fable across the finish line. It advertised job openings across engineering, design, community, cinematics, and production divisions.
“After the incredible launch of Forza Horizon 6 this week, the excitement across the studio is sky-high,” wrote the studio. “But we’re not done yet. With Fable coming later this year, we’re continuing to recruit across multiple disciplines to bring more exceptional talent into the team.”
XBOX CCO Matt Booty had revealed last month that the development of Fable has been a team effort across Xbox Game Studios, with Blizzard’s team helping with creating the cinematics. Discussing how studios under the Xbox Game Studios banner had been working together, Booty also noted that Rare had been helping Double Fine out with Kiln, owing to the former’s experience with multiplayer games.
“It is the case that we have got a lot of different kinds of studios, and they’ve all got their own cultures, so we think of it as a culture of cultures,” he explained. “I see a big part of my job is to provide just enough connection and just enough structure across those that they can communicate with each other, they can share things back and forth, but never to the point that we’re coming in over the top trying to change who they are.”
“We’ve got the Blizzard cinematics team helping out on Fable. We’ve got our studio in Montreal, Compulsion Games, using the Activision Mo Cap studio. We’ve got the team at Rare with a lot of multiplayer experience working on Sea of Thieves, helping out Double Fine on Kiln, the pottery game.”
Fable will be available for Xbox Series X/S, PC and, unlike Forza Horizon 6, PS5 at launch.
