New video game Fable allows players to live out their evil landlord fantasies

It’s been 14 years since the last entry in the Fable video game series but it’s back to allow you to live out your evil landlord dreams.

The uniquely British fantasy role-playing game series is being rebooted this autumn and developers Playground Games recently showed off how the much-anticipated game works, particularly how the game world reacts to your decisions to be good or evil.

Player choice has been at the heart of Fable series, originally created by the defunct Lionhead Studios back in 2004, with the game world reacting to the decisions players make, even changing their characters’ appearance accordingly.

Players can decide everything from who to marry and where their home will be to the fate of the fantasy world the game is set in.

The new video game will allow the player to buy up every home and business in the fantasy setting of Albion and rent them out. To demonstrate the consequences, developers showed an encounter with Oliver the beggar – a character sleeping on the street after the player evicted them.

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The developers said: “Maybe the bed they sleep in is in a house you own because you’re the landlord. Or maybe their bed is on the street because you evicted them?”

The player can also decide to help or kill a giant Richard Ayoade in the game too. The consequences of his corpse lying on the land? That’ll affect house prices, the developers said. Escapism!

Fable will release on PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC in autumn 2026.

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