The upcoming Fable reboot is approaching the original trilogy's whacky life sim elements in an interesting way. Developer Playground Games has handcrafted 1,000 NPCs and dubbed them 'The Living Population' since each of them will apparently react to your heroic or evil landlording deeds differently, much to the horror of the studio's art department, who were then tasked with making 1,000 beds, give or take a few. "They'll get up, they'll go to work, they'll have some leisure time, they'll go back to their home, and they'll go to bed," he adds. As we saw in this week's Developer Direct, sometimes where they work or sleep will change depending on your choices. Maybe you bought every building in the land and evicted them or maybe you hired them for a specific role. How Fable's open world fantasy lets you meddle in the lives of over 1000 living NPCs Fable will let me romance nearly all of its 1000 NPCs "with a very few exceptions," Playground Games lead says Baldur's Gate 3 devs tip their hat to fellow RPG Fable: "Oh my f***ing god this game just became my most anticipated" "And immediately, you know when you hear that, certainly as a developer, you start going, 'Oh, okay, so every NPC, and there's more than 1,000 of them in the game, needs a bed.' And you have that conversation with the environment art team, and they're like, 'they need what now?' Which is, it brings you to a very different way of building a game, because it needs to be functional as well as beautiful." Fable launches sometime later this year on Xbox Series X|S, Game Pass, PC, and PS5. Sorry, the Fable reboot doesn't feature a dog companion, Playground lead confirms: "I was hoping that nobody would ask that question"