Fabledom

I love this game, I really, really do. It's challenging and very cute, but I can't recommend this game when it has such a huge bug. Fablins will just starve to death even if you have enough food. I do hope they fix it soon, it's been in the game for a very long time from what I've read.

87% positive reviews. It's amazing how people buy games uncritically. Fabledom is a game with the classic city-building problem: once you've completed a map, there's no point in generating a new one and playing it again. Because each playthrough is no different from the last. I'm amazed how developers put so much work into a game, only to create procedurally generated maps without designing any mechanics to encourage repeat play... ...and even if there were, it wouldn't be worth anything in this game because it's horribly tedious in the late game. It's so laborious, unclear in its mechanics, buggy, opaque, and doesn't explain the economy to the player, which means that with a fully developed kingdom, you can't make enough bread, even if you build 20 farms, mills, and bakeries. Just as coal production was a problem at the beginning of this game's development, so now, in my case, is bread production. But even if this were corrected, the game is still horribly tedious and unbalanced, and you only have to play through one map and then uninstall it. I wouldn't recommend it, unless it's 10% off the full price.

Alright, from the get-go - I really like the core concepts of the game: the mechanics, amazing art style, music, and all interactions between fablings. The early and mid-game experience is strong and engaging, with random events like ogres, witches, dragon attacks, or a POIs like Barskin. But this is where my praise ends, because the game feels unpolished. A lot of mechanics lack proper continuation. While progression is rewarding at first, it suddenly cuts off - even before reaching the highest fabling tier. After unlocking it, the game effectively runs out of content, leaving only automation and min-max optimization, which quickly becomes repetitive. Getting back to the event system - I did like it, until events stopped appearing in the middle of the mid-game (not even the late game). The number of events is limited, and they are heavily scripted, so replayability isn’t really viable across playthroughs. Some of them, like the Magic Bean event, are poorly designed. I accidentally destroyed the sprout while trying to move it, and it disappeared permanently. Since it’s a one-time event, it never appeared again, forcing me to start a new save later on. Repetition ends up being a core issue because of this. The only real incentive for me to continue playing is 100% completionism, like marrying every prince and princess - but that still requires going through the exact same progression multiple times (even if the maps are different). In conclusion, while I had fun during my 18 hours of playtime, it doesn’t feel like a complete product for the price. If you enjoy city builders with resource management, it may be worth picking up on sale - but I wouldn’t recommend it at full price. I do hope the developers expand the game with updates or DLC, as I’d really like to continue my Fabled Kingdom (^-^)/

Fabledom Review – Broken, Frustrating, Useless I’ve started this game multiple times, and every single time I hit the same wall: my citizens are constantly starving. The production chains—from farmers to bread—are glacially slow. Even when food is made, the workers eat it themselves before anyone else gets a bite. Everyone else? They just die. Of. Hunger. And it’s not just bread—fish and vegetables are equally useless. Manually assigning workers is a nightmare. It’s ridiculous. Take the fisherman, for example: I row out to sea, catch one fish, row back starving, eat the fish myself, then repeat the process endlessly. There’s no way to optimize by putting houses or warehouses close enough to production buildings. The game punishes you for even trying. It’s obvious the developers didn’t care. They dumped unfinished, unbalanced content and expected players to spend a couple of hours, then forget it. But I stuck around, with 200+ citizens, and it quickly turns into a hellish juggling act: someone dies of hunger, you assign a new worker, they die, rinse and repeat. The number of farms, mills, or bakeries? Completely irrelevant. Fabledom isn’t just unpolished—it actively makes you hate playing. Mechanics are broken, systems are lazy, and the game feels like it was rushed out with zero care for the player experience. Do not buy or play this game—it’s a waste of time and pure disappointment. Let the developers fix it and release a massive patch first, then maybe it’s worth trying.

Not being able to reassign fablings to a different house closer to their workcenter when it's a core game mechanic is a stupid oversight and makes optimizing a city super tedious towards the end to the point where I didn't even bother finishing it.

My 5 year old likes to watch and boss me around while I play it.

Since Steam doesn't offer a mid/positive option, I'm inclined to recommend this even though I encountered many fundamental flaws throughout the game which stopped me playing several times. Overall it's a 6/10, but the game is bursting at the seams with unutilised potential. Overall, I had a very pleasant experience with Fabledom, but not without a series of frantic Google searches to try and figure out what should be very clearly-defined core mechanics. Like almost all other previous players, I hit a point where my kingdom was packed to the brim with farms while my villagers starved to death and produced no food. It turned out my farmers were walking across the map to get to their home to pick up some food, and by the time they got back to work (at the farm, a food source) they were already starving and miserable. it's never explained anywhere that when assigning workers, it will attempt to place the closest-living worker into a building. It's also not possible to manually relocate your workers or rehome them. In the end, the only solution was to collectively remove all my workers from all production buildings, and then manually reassign them all. This eventually populated the buildings with villagers which lived nearby, and the game very suddenly became enjoyable. Simply having an option to swap out workers, or even doing it automatically would bring this game up to a solid 8/10 for me. If this is an option already, it was not made clear to me. In summary, I very much enjoyed this game, but it would hugely benefit from just a very tiny bit more love.

I really enjoy playing this game and find it to be a fresh take on city builders, but cannot recommend it in its current state. Like many others have mentioned, after getting about 3 hours in, it started crashing every 20 minutes or so, on the lowest graphics settings. My PC can handle other, more graphically demanding games without issue. Will return to the game once the crashing issue is fixed, but for now 20 minutes of playtime is not worth the risk of damaging my graphics card.

可能是我老了，总感觉游戏太幼稚，我年轻点的话也许会玩的很开心