Xbox has released an Official Xbox Podcast deep dive into new Fable gameplay, with Ralph Fulton of the Fable team at Playground Games walking through a roughly three-minute clip set in Deepwood, a magical forest players have never seen before. The episode, published on Xbox Wire on 13 November, formed part of the platform’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
A first look at Deepwood
Fulton said the clip takes place at the end of what the studio calls Act 3, roughly halfway through the game. “We’re actually in the middle of Deepwood, the magical forest right in the middle of Albion,” he told podcast host Joe Skrebels.
The scene is also a story beat: it is the first time in the game that the name Isabel is mentioned at all, and Isabel is played by Hayley Atwell and is a Hero.
The rest of the cast is filling out too. Arden, played by Susan Wokoma, is a character seen in earlier trailers who describes herself as a retired Hero who has rejected Hero-dom. Humphry the Golden is played by Matt King, and the player character gets help from Humphry and from a brother named Connor during the first half of the game. The clip ends with a reveal as the screen goes black that Fulton said takes players “somewhere you’ve never been before”.
Curse variants and maxed-out spells
On combat, Fulton said the game is built around one-versus-many scenarios, with boss fights and one-on-one duels also present. The footage shows cursed, red-glowing creatures: more powerful and more durable versions of existing enemies that appear in curse-struck areas and, he said, carry the story of what has happened in Albion and what is still to come. The Dash spell in the captured footage is upgraded to the max.
Fulton also addressed pacing. In the first half of the game the player’s village and grandmother have been turned to stone, but there is no time pressure, and the game only opens up fully around Act 5 or 6. He added that the project is gliding into its final stages, with the last few bugs being fixed.
Skrebels closed with two dates: more Fable information from Fulton is promised on Xbox Wire around the Xbox anniversary weekend, and Fable launches on 23 February 2027.