Asha Sharma Shares Four Minutes of New Fable Quest Gameplay

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has shared four minutes of new Fable gameplay, following a quest called Something in the Water. She posted the footage this evening, 12 November 2026, and said she is proud of the work Playground Games is doing to bring the franchise back.

The video went out in an X post from Asha Sharma at 7:01pm UK time. Xbox Wire published a matching post a minute earlier, written by Mike Nelson and titled “Fable – New Quest Gameplay for XBOX’s 25th Anniversary”. That Wire page has no written write-up beyond the headline, so the video itself is the source for what follows.

Today we’re sharing four minutes of new @fable gameplay. It’s been a long road to bring this franchise back, and I’m proud of the work Playground Games is doing. Take a look.

— ASHA (@asha_shar) November 12, 2026

Every gameplay frame is stamped “WORK IN PROGRESS PC BUILD. ULTRA GRAPHICS SETTINGS.” The clip runs for about four minutes and 10 seconds.

Something in the Water

The quest tracker names the mission Something in the Water. The objectives appear in this order: find the source of the river, follow the river, defeat the cursed monsters, follow the river again, then investigate the cavern.

The player character is subtitled “Hero”, a woman in a blue coat with a sword on her back. Her companion, subtitled “Arden”, wears a red vest and green shorts. They start in a sick, thorn-choked forest and follow the river towards a cave, before heading into a flooded stone cavern lit in red.

The Hero says the woman who attacked her village must have come this way. Arden then asks, “Have you ever heard of Isabel?” and says she is Guild, “or, at least, she was.” Arden adds that Isabel came looking for her help a while back, that she made her a pair of boots and “sent her packing back to Humphry,” and asks, “Did he not mention her?” “No,” the Hero says. The video does not say outright that Isabel is the woman who attacked the village. Isabel is already identified on our Fable: Everything We Know guide as Hayley Atwell’s character, the Hero of Wraithmarsh.

Further on, the Hero asks, “Isabel. Tell me about her.” Arden says she only met her once. “She seemed… kind,” Arden says. “Didn’t get the sense she’d be capable of something like this.” She also calls Isabel a Hero, and wonders whether she meant to do this or it was an accident.

Arden also speaks of Briar Hill as a place, asking whether the cursed monsters are “like your Hobbes from Briar Hill”, and addresses the Hero as Briar Hill, telling her “After you, Briar Hill” as they look out over the river. The video does not explain the name further.

A fight, then a red-lit cavern

Combat is shown with a bow, magic and a sword, against enemies the objective simply calls cursed monsters. The video itself does not give them another name, though Arden compares them to Hobbes. After the fight, Arden says the river is coming from a cave, and that “whatever’s messing with the water’s in there.”

Inside, the cavern is a flooded stone ruin with red light at the far end. Arden says the light does not seem natural. “None of this does,” the Hero replies. Arden says she has never felt power like it. “You can turn back, you know,” the Hero tells her. “Could’ve turned back an hour ago,” Arden replies.

A third woman then appears, subtitled “Hero of Bower”. She calls “Hero… Hero…” and “Come closer, Hero…” The video also shows a red-lit vision of a house breaking apart. It does not name a region for the cavern, and it does not identify the Hero of Bower as Isabel or as the Hero of Wraithmarsh.

The end card restates those already announced details — Fable, pre-order now, 23 February 2027, Series X|S, PC, cloud and Game Pass — with the Xbox and Playground Games logos. It is not a new date or a new Game Pass confirmation.

Everything we know about the game is in one place on our Fable hub and our Fable: Everything We Know guide, and we’ll keep both updated as Playground Games and Xbox share more.

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