Fable picked up another delay to February 2027 just last month, so a new story trailer at the XBOX Games Showcase was a good sign of where the game actually stands. Playground Games, the studio behind Forza Horizon 6, used the spot to show off fresh gameplay and a sense of the story beyond the player’s Hero, with action ranging from a fight against a Balverine to flipping a giant toad onto its back with a spell. There was also quite a lot of swearing.
Anchoring the trailer was Isabel, the game’s villain, played by Hayley Atwell of the Marvel movies and the recent Mission: Impossible films. Associate narrative director Craig Owens describes Isabel as a powerful Hero driven by grief and on a quest to right a tragic injustice, convinced she can undo any harm she causes along the way. That conviction is what sets her against both the Hero of Briar Hill and Humphry, her one-time guardian.
Atwell headlines a cast that, as the series has done before, draws heavily on British acting and comedy talent. Matt King, best known as Super Hans from Peep Show, plays Humphry, once Albion’s greatest Hero and now shut away in the empty halls of the Heroes’ Guild. Richard Ayoade voices Dave the Giant, a self-styled intellectual who has accidentally turned himself into an actual giant, while Natasia Demetriou of What We Do in the Shadows and Nathan Foad of Our Flag Means Death play Jenny and Jacob, the feuding heirs to the city of Bloodstone.
The player’s Hero, raised in the forest village of Briar Hill, is voiced by two performers: Lily Nichol, making her gaming debut, and Ukweli Roach, who has appeared in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Horizon Forbidden West. Whether that Hero turns out kind or cruel is left up to the player to decide. The rest of the named roles go to Susan Wokoma as Arden the Cobbler, Kwame Augustine as Connor, Nina Wadia as the grandmother Samira, and Robert Whitelock as Nigel, the bumbling Sheriff of Silverbrook.
Here’s the full Fable cast revealed during the showcase:
- Hayley Atwell as Isabel, the villain
- Lily Nichol and Ukweli Roach as the Hero of Briar Hill
- Matt King as Humphry, Albion’s former greatest Hero
- Susan Wokoma as Arden the Cobbler
- Richard Ayoade as Dave the Giant
- Natasia Demetriou as Jenny, one of Bloodstone’s heirs
- Nathan Foad as Jacob, her rival brother
- Kwame Augustine as Connor, the player’s adoptive brother
- Nina Wadia as Samira, the family’s grandmother
- Robert Whitelock as Nigel, the Sheriff of Silverbrook
Fable remains set for February 23, 2027, and this trailer marks the first proper look at the voices behind Albion’s cast.
