Fable
FOR EVERY CHOICE, A CONSEQUENCE.Fully re-mastered with HD visuals and audio, Fable Anniversary is a stunning rendition of the original game that will delight faithful fans and new players alike! The all new Heroic difficulty setting will test the mettle of even the most hardcore Fable fan.
Action RPGOpen WorldRole-PlayingSandbox
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- Released
- 2007
- Developer
- Lionhead Studios
- Platforms
- 4 systems
- Critics
- Not scored
- Steam Deck
- verified
- Download
- 10 GB
What is Fable?
FOR EVERY CHOICE, A CONSEQUENCE.Fully re-mastered with HD visuals and audio, Fable Anniversary is a stunning rendition of the original game that will delight faithful fans and new players alike! The all new Heroic difficulty setting will test the mettle of even the most hardcore Fable fan.
Description as published by the developer on its own store page, read 30 August 2026. It is marketing copy, not our assessment.
The record
| First released | 4 December 2007 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Lionhead Studios |
| Publisher | Xbox Game Studios |
| Platforms | PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Steam Deck |
| Genres | Action RPG, Open World, Role-Playing, Sandbox |
| Languages | 10 supported |
Source. Catalogue facts from Wikidata Q944752, seeded 30 August 2026. Store data from Steam, read 30 August 2026.
How was Fable received?
Method. Player figures are Steam's own totals for the PC version, read 30 August 2026. The Metacritic score is the one Steam publishes on its store page and can lag the site itself. Neither is our opinion. We have not published a review of this game.
Accessibility
Seeing
None declared
Hearing
None declared
Input
- Full controller support
Difficulty
None declared
Method. Features the publisher declared on its own store page. A declaration is a floor, not a review.
What does it support?
| Capability | Support |
|---|---|
| Controller | full support |
| Cloud saves | Yes |
| Cross-platform play | No |
| Mod support | Steam Workshop |
| Online play | Single-player only |
| In-game purchases | No |
| Steam Deck | verified |
| Download size | 10 GB |
| Add-on content | 3 DLC listed |
| Age gate | None |
Method. Read from the publisher's Steam listing on 30 August 2026. Describes the PC version. Console versions differ.
What does it cost?
Steam price in US dollars, read 30 August 2026. Prices move hourly and vary by region. Check the current price.
Is Fable worth it?
86% of 16,533 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. It costs $10.49 on Steam, on sale from $34.99.
That is the data, not a verdict for sale: whether it is worth it depends on the price you pay and what you want. Players do report problems — see the reported-problems section below before buying. We have not published our own review of this game.
Fable system requirements
The minimum requirements from Fable's Steam page. These are what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings.
| Memory | 3 GB RAM (other games at this level) |
|---|---|
| Processor | Intel 2GHz Core2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 x2 2.4GHz |
| Graphics | Radeon X1800/ Nvidia GeForce 7600GT |
| Storage | 10 GB (more games this size) |
Where Fable sits on the grid
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Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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How positions are decided
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- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
Estimated sales for Fable
These are estimates, not reported figures. Lionhead Studios has not published unit sales for Fable, and nobody outside the company can measure them. What follows is arithmetic on the review count, with the method printed below so you can check it or reject it.
How this was calculated
Steam sales track review counts closely enough that dividing one by the other across games with published figures gives a usable multiplier. This is the standard method for estimating sales from outside a publisher.
| Reviews on Steam | 16,533 |
|---|---|
| Sales per review | 30 to 60 |
| List price | $34.99 |
| Assumed average selling price | 33% to 66% of list |
What this cannot tell you
Steam only. Console, Epic, GOG and retail sales are not in here. For a game that sold heavily on PlayStation this is a fraction of the real number.
The band is wide because the method is imprecise. Review rates vary with price, genre, launch era and how insistently a game asks. Published analyses put the ratio between 30 and 60 for paid games, and we show the whole range rather than picking a point in it.
The owner estimate above measures something else. SteamSpy counts accounts that have the game, which includes free weekends, bundles, giveaways and gifts. It sits higher than a sales figure for that reason, and the two are not alternative answers to the same question.
Revenue is the shakiest line. It assumes an average selling price well below list because most copies move in sales, and it ignores regional pricing, refunds, key resellers and whatever deal the publisher actually has with Valve. Treat it as an order of magnitude, not a figure.
If Lionhead Studios publishes a real number we will use that instead and say where it came from. Our editorial policy covers how we handle figures we cannot verify.
Fable price & deals: is it on sale?
We have one reading so far: $10.49 on 30 August 2026. Prices are checked daily from here, and this becomes a chart once there is more than one point to join. A single observation is a price, not a history.
What readers say about Fable
Reviews written by people who have played it. These are separate from the GamingPickz Score and are never averaged into it: that score comes from thousands of Steam reviews with a sample-size correction, and a handful of unverified ratings would distort it rather than improve it.
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Problems players report
We read the 300 most recent negative Steam reviews of Fable on 30 August 2026 and counted what they mention. These are complaints, not confirmed defects: we have not reproduced any of them, and a review describes one person's machine. What the counts tell you is which problems more than one person ran into.
- Crashes and freezes36 of 300 (12%)
In the Guild, when you enter the green portal to spend XP and level up, the game can crash.
Steam review, 14 February 2026 · 27 hours played · 33 readers marked it helpfulEven then it crashes your computer.
Steam review, 13 February 2025 · 0 hours played · 33 readers marked it helpful - Motion sickness and comfort28 of 300 (9%)
It causes headaches and motion sickness.
Steam review, 11 January 2026 · 3 hours played · 31 readers marked it helpfulLove this game but the camera gives me motion sickness.
Steam review, 22 December 2024 · 1 hours played · 12 readers marked it helpful - Performance and stutter14 of 300 (5%)
Half of animations are fixed to sub-30 fps while in TLC they perfectly work with 100hz...
Steam review, 13 June 2024 · 5 hours played · 44 readers marked it helpfulAs much as I love fable who ever decided to tie loading screen length to fps was smoking crack.
Steam review, 26 May 2026 · 0 hours played · 4 readers marked it helpful
A further 19 reviews call the game buggy or broken without saying how, which is why they are counted separately rather than assigned to a theme. Counted by keyword across review text, so a review discussing two problems is counted under both. Read the reviews yourself.
Fable mods
Fable supports Steam Workshop, and the 20 most-installed mods have 57,323 subscribers between them. The most installed is No Scars.
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Games like Fable
24 games overlap with Fable on the tags Steam players applied to it, on genre, and on theme. The closest are Fable Anniversary, Fable - The Lost Chapters and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition.
Fable head to head
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Common questions about Fable
What platforms is Fable on?
Fable is available on PC, Xbox, Xbox 360, Steam Deck. It first released in 2007.
How much does Fable cost?
$10.49 on Steam in the United States, read on 30 August 2026. Prices move often and vary by region, so check the store before buying.
Do players recommend Fable?
86% of 16,533 Steam reviews are positive, which Steam rates Very Positive. That is players rating it, not our review. We have not published a review of this game.
Does Fable work on Steam Deck?
Valve rates Fable as verified on the Steam Deck, from its own testing. That means it works out of the box with no configuration.
How big is the Fable download?
10 GB on PC, from the storage requirement on its Steam listing. Console versions differ.
Who made Fable?
Fable was developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Xbox Game Studios.
Is Fable worth it in 2026?
86% of 16,533 Steam reviews are positive (Very Positive), and it is $10.49 on steam. That is the strongest signal we hold; "worth it" depends on the price you pay and what you want, so weigh the sentiment against the current price above.
Is Fable on sale?
Yes, right now. Fable is $10.49 on Steam, down from its $34.99 list price (about 70% off), read on 30 August 2026. Prices move, so check the store.
What are the system requirements for Fable?
At minimum, Fable needs 3 GB RAM, a Intel 2GHz Core2 Duo / AMD Athlon 64 x2 2.4GHz, a Radeon X1800/ Nvidia GeForce 7600GT, 10 GB of storage, from its Steam listing. That is what it takes to launch and be playable, not to run at high settings. Check it against your own PC on the can-I-run page.