Fable Main Quest Will Take About 20 Hours to Beat

As sprawling RPGs have continued to fill the space, that might come up a bit short for what some players were expecting. Open-world games like Elden Ring, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla have famously delivered massive worlds with main quests that could have players spending 50 hours or more just to complete the story. For Fable, that won’t be the case, but longtime fans probably expected that.

Howlongtobeat has the original 2004 Fable‘s main quest clocking in at about 12 and a half hours. Fable 2 isn’t much longer at 13 hours, and Fable 3 inches just further past that at 13 and a half hours. If anything, next year’s Fable reboot is already shaping up to be the longest in the series, and pushing its main campaign on much longer would have it launching with a story almost twice as long as the one in the original game.

That’s not to say that players won’t be able to get lost in Fable’s fantasy world if they so choose. Kennedy promised that the new Fable game’s “life systems are limitless, so you can play them for as long as you want.” When one attendee remarked that Fable is “not a huge game,” Littler clarified, again, that “you can literally play it forever if that’s what you want to do.”

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