Steam Deck Playable!Welcome to my review of Fabledom on the PC. Developers Grenaa Games and publishers Dear Villagers (Caravan SandWitch, Born of Bread) and Doyoyo Games (Tangledeep, What Lies In The Multiverse) bring this game to us.
Fabledom is a relaxing city-building sandbox game. It’s most definitely relaxing, I had a great chilled-out time playing.
The Game
The general premise of Fabledom is to build your humble little starting area into a thriving Fairy tale kingdom.
There is quite a variety of buildings to help you get your kingdom into a huge place full of life. Our little humans in this game are called Fablings. They come in three types, peasants, commoners, and nobles.
You start the game with only the peasants. But, as you progress and your kingdom grows larger, you unlock the different Fabling types. Another thing to note is that as your kingdom grows, you unlock more building types.
Some of the buildings you unlock, as you go through, affect your world in different ways. For example, you can unlock a farm fairly early in the game. However, during the winter the farms will not grow any crops. This can affect your Fablings hunger levels if you do not have enough stored away in a granary. But, a bit further into the game you can unlock a fisherman’s hut.
It’s little things like this that I like about the game as it means you have to keep your wits about you for certain things.
As the days go by, “newcomers” will visit the borders of your land. If you have enough housing, you can allow them to enter your kingdom to become one of your citizens.
Soon enough you will also unlock a “hero”. This hero will wander your land at your will and can explore world events. For example, I was offered to buy a “magic bean”. After I bought it, I planted it in my world and watched it grow. After some in-game days passed by, my hero was able to climb the beanstalk that grew.
There’s a chance your hero will fail this, but if the hero succeeds, they will return with a new building type for you to build. The Golden Goose coop!
I do like some of the humour used in the game, for example, the narrator. The narrator reminds me of God from Black and White 2. So does the humour.
The game has some nice graphics as you can see in my above screenshots. It also supports Ultrawide 21:9 out of the box, which was nice as I didn’t have to play around with any settings to get it working properly. I also had a flawless experience with the game, I had excellent frame rates even when my game had 130+ Fablings wandering around doing their daily duties.
To round up my review, if you’re a fan of hunting achievements you will be pleased to know that Fabledom has a total of 22 for you to unlock. I also feel that for a full game release, there could be more things to do towards the end of your game, for example, some more buildings.
Conclusions
Overall, Fabledom is a pretty decent game that will keep you entertained for quite a while. The humour is great, the graphics are very nice, and the audio is fantastic. Although the background song seems to loop, it’s still quite a nice song that doesn’t get as annoying as some games of this genre can.
However, when you start to approach the “end game” things get quite slow and you just sit there watching your Fablings doing the same stuff repeatedly. Please visit the official Steam Store page to learn more about this game.
I score Fabledom an 8/10.
A code was kindly provided for us to review this.
