During this June's Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, many of the platform's biggest upcoming exclusives were absent, and Fable was one of those games. Announced ahead of the launch of the Xbox Series X/S consoles, Fable was used to help build up hype for the platform. It's always been a project with years left in development, though, and remains so. For Fable fans worried about the status of the game can rest easy, as a job listing shared by Playground Games makes it clear Fable development is continuing to move forward.The latest job listing from Playground Games, which opened a second studio to focus on open-world RPG games alongside Forza Horizon, is for a Quest Scripter. Like all of PlayGround Games' job listings, it explains which team the job is for straight away. The Quest Scripter is for the Fable team and, as its name implies, is tasked with implementing quests in the open-world RPG. That clearly implies there's a lot of work left to do, but also that content is actively being implemented in Fable right now.The Quest Scripter is just one of a significant number of Fable jobs currently listed on Playground Games' website. In the art team alone, Playground is hiring gameplay animators, character artists, environmental artists, UI artists, technical animators, art managers, art directors, and more. While the status of Fable's development isn't clear, it certainly appears that Playground is aggressively expanding its team for Fable's development.
The closest thing Fable fans have to a release window for the new game is the now legendary Nvidia GeForce Now leak, which listed Fable down as an October 12, 2023 release. However, it also had Redfall, Forza Motorsport, and Perfect Dark all listed as 2022 releases, so it's safe to say it's unreliable. A 2024 launch, if not a 2025 or beyond release, seems in line with what's currently known about the project.
Making predictions based on job listings like they're tea leaves is obviously not very productive, but the important message is that Playground Games continues to move forward on Fable's development. It's rapidly growing its development team to work on key aspects of the game and not just pre-production, and there's no indication Fable has changed or been rebooted.
As for when Fable fans can expect an official update on the game's development, it may be some time. If June's presentation focused on games coming out in the next year, it may be June 2023 or even 2024 before Fable gets its next official development update. Fable fans will just have to be patient, like they've been for the past decade.
Fable is in development.