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Where to get it

2017 · Mediatonic · Board game · Card game

Fable Fortune

Xbox console exclusive

Fable Fortune is a beautifully crafted and innovative collectible card game, featuring beloved characters and well-known locations from the award-winning Fable franchise.

Released: 2017
Platforms: Windows Xbox One
Genres: Board game Card game Strategy Turn-based strategy
Developers: Mediatonic Flaming Fowl Studios
Publishers: Mediatonic
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Fantasy Historical Comedy
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB T PEGI 16

About

Fable Fortune was a free-to-play digital collectible card game set in the Fable universe. Developed by Flaming Fowl Studios and Mediatonic, it was released for Windows and Xbox One in February 2018, after an initial early access release. In late 2019, Flaming Fowl Studios announced their intent to cease work on further updates for the game, citing its lacklustre performance on the market. The support for the game was finally discontinued in March 2020.

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Play as one of six unique Heroes in a collectible card game that combines the iconic world and characters of Albion with fast-paced and thrilling tactical gameplay. In Fable Fortune, your destiny is on the cards!

Keywords

medieval
collectible card game
free-to-play
crowdfunding - kickstarter
xbox play anywhere
xbox one x enhanced
xbox live
xbox live cross-platform multiplayer
xbox live achievements

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Gameplay

Fable Fortune is a digital collectible card game. Players build their 30-card decks around individual heroes, who have unique spells with a variety of effects to add to your deck, alongside cards available to all decks. The player who goes second gets a 31st card to balance the first-mover advantage. The game has a morality component, similar to the role-playing elements of the main games in the franchise; at the beginning of a match players can choose an objective to work through during the match.

Once achieving the objective, players can choose to upgrade their hero with "good" or "evil" powers. There are three objectives per match. Completed objectives also enable additional effects on cards with morality effects.

Development

Fable developer Lionhead Studios began developing Fable Fortune in late 2014 as an unannounced project. At the same time, Lionhead was publicly developing Fable Legends. Microsoft shut down the studio in April 2016, ending development on Legends and Fortune. Microsoft offered the Fable license to Flaming Fowl Studios, an independent developer formed of former Lionhead staff.

Seeking to continue work on Fortune, Flaming Fowl turned to a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in May 2016, looking to raise £250,000 towards the game's development costs. The campaign failed its target and was cancelled in June. Flaming Fowl CEO Craig Oman cited difficulties in crowdfunding a free-to-play title, and the unfamiliar genre for the Fable universe as reasons for the failure. The game did however attract private funding, allowing its development to continue.