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Game entry

Fable: The Lost Chapters

2005 · Action RPG, Action-adventure, Sandbox · PC, Mac, Xbox · Microsoft Game Studios

Fable: The Lost Chapters is ranked no. 1,401 among the best video games of all time by GameForever voters, with an ELO score of 1,543 and 44% of duels won. Of the 4 duels that pitted it against The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it has won 1 and lost 3. Its best standing outside the world ranking: no. 45 out of 149 (2005).

World rank

no. 1,401

ELO score

1,543

Wins

44%

Duels played

241

About Fable: The Lost Chapters

Fable was expanded and rereleased as Fable: The Lost Chapters for Xbox and Windows PC platforms in September 2005. The game was later ported to Mac OS X by Robosoft Technologies and published by Feral Interactive on 31 March 2008.
The Lost Chapters features all the content found in the original Fable, as well as additional new content such as new monsters, weapons, alignment based spells, items, armour, towns, buildings, and expressions, as well as the ability to give children objects. The story receives further augmentation in the form of nine new areas and sixteen additional quests. Characters such as Briar Rose and Scythe, who played only minor roles in the original game, are now given more importance and are included in certain main and side quests. Other character-based augmentations include the voice of the antagonist, Jack of Blades, sounding deeper, harsher and more demonic, and the ability to uncover (and resolve) the murder mystery of Lady Grey's sister. The updated edition of the game also applied fixes for certain glitches, such as the "dig glitch," in which the protagonist would move backward each time he used the shovel, pushing him through solid objects and sometimes trapping him.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,543 ELO points over the last 215 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

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The standing

Where Fable: The Lost Chapters ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where Fable: The Lost Chapters stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 45 out of 149 (2005).

Where Fable: The Lost Chapters ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 1,401 5,110
Action RPG 166 528
2000s 398 1,304
2005 45 149

The community

The debate

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  1. ttoy

    The moral choice system felt groundbreaking at the time, though replaying it now the world just feels smaller than I remembered.

  2. JazlynMaster

    I showed this to my kid expecting fifteen minutes of patience and instead got a whole weekend of questions about why the villagers react to everything I do.

    ÁngelesSamurai

    Mi hija hace las mismas preguntas, es bonito verlo funcionar todavía así.

  3. IronPilot

    I put maybe 40 hours into it total and honestly the promise of consequences never fully paid off for me.

  4. QuestLegend2

    I keep seeing people call this ambitious when really it just spread itself thin across too many systems.

    FrameKid2

    El mundo pequeño se notaba ya entonces, no es solo cosa de ahora, la nostagia nos hace ver cosas que no eran tan grandes.

  5. Vinyl_Alfonso

    Cansado de ver este juego defendido como si fuera intocable, no lo es

    EmeliaWarden

    It didn't reinvent the genre but it introduced ideas plenty of later games leaned on

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