Fable Age review: take your favorite fairy tale character on an epic puzzle adventure

Since the Fables comics first hit the shelves in 2002, fables, and reinvention of fable stories, have been all the rage. And it’s not just comics, it’s TV shows like Once Upon A Time, movies like Snow White and the Huntsman, and games like Blue Tea Games’ Fable Age.

Let’s see what’s inside.

Fable Age is puzzle combat game similar to Puzzle and Dragons but with a fairytale slant. You explore various fairytale kingdoms in the attempt to destroy the Lich King and rescue King Arthur, who is kidnapped at the beginning of the game. You will meet all the classic fairytale characters, including Aladdin, Goldilocks, and the Big Bad Wolf, as you journey through various fairytale lands collecting the books that you need to put the fable world right.

Familiar combat with a few twists

The first thing you need to do in Fable Age is select your fable character. You can chose the water-based Snow White, fire-based Beast, or nature-based Robin Hood. There’s not a whole lot of difference between them except which color gem fuels their attack. I went with Beast, because he’s a beast.

After that, prepare for the tutorial which makes you play through several levels to explain what could have been explained in one, longer level. I understand that they want to keep things broken up for players who are playing in short bursts, but this part felt like it took way too long.

The basics are that you must connect as many gems of the same color as possible in one swipe. Different gems do different things; blue gems allow water-based enemies to attack, and green does the same for nature, as red does for fire. There are also heart gems, which allow you to regenerate health.

If you have played Puzzles and Dragons_ this may seem a bit familiar, so Fable Age_ adds a few cool little twists. First, you can connect to different colours of gems using link points, which you start with, and regain, from high combos. This means that if done correctly, you can link massive numbers of gems for huge combos. You also get additional attacks if you can link back to the starting point.

Combos are insanely important, especially for later level bosses. You also want to get your fables to attack as often as possible in order to use their special abilities, which can drastically change the flow of a battle.

So pretty…