Running Fable Petite Party is mostly a party-based game, starting with the options for three Board Game layouts, which it states requires 2 or more players, but I learned you can just press Enter at that point, and those bots will appear.
This is rather like Snakes And Ladders, albeit with a much smaller board, given that there’s only around 12 or so places on each one. You’ll all take turns to throw, but the loaded dice has more than one ‘1’, and even a ‘-2’! Maybe that’s why the board is so small.
As you go round, you’ll come across a number of MiniGames, but there’s a separate section for all of those in which to indulge.
For some of them, like Labyrinth Chase – which I think might’ve been a version of ‘tag’, I didn’t really have a clue what was going on; And ‘Lily Hoper‘ should really read ‘Lily Hopper‘, since you’re hopping from lily to lily. And if you require those additional CPU players like me, where I’m just playing with myself, it will provide bots to do the honours alongside you, albeit with varying results, making the difficulty between the games vary immensely.
Oh, and for the Treasure Hunter minigame, two of the opponents each got stuck in a chest, making that one considerably easier!
That said, you can’t escape the fact that these are mobile games served up as PC mini-games, with some of them just being basic memory games. There’s certainly none I would play again, beyond this review, and I can’t recommend this.
Additionally, on a technical level, whether I start a new game, or even after finishing a minigame while it’s sitll running, when the menu appears, it ALWAYS defaults back to 1920×1080, even though I’ve set it to 4K.
In the case of Tempo Trouble, it flicked back in the middle of the mini-game! Oh, and the Steam achievement stated I got a score of 100 in that game, when I certainly didn’t.
It’s possible that the technical problems can be fixed, though, but there’s just not enough content to justify the relatively small price tag of around £12, including on Switch, which will have a zillion party games releases on there, already.
Check out some gameplay below….
Thanks to our friends at Seashell Studio for the review code for this game.
Running Fable Petite Party is released on January 30th on PC/Steam, and the respective digital stores for PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch.
Important info:
- Developer: Seashell Studio
- Publisher: Seashell Studio
- Players: Single-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP
PC specs:
- CPU: AMD RYZEN 9 7950X3D
- Motherboard: MSI MPG X670E CARBON WIFI AMD X670 S AM5 DDR5 PCIe 5.0 4x M.2 2.5GbE AMD EXPO™ ATX
- RAM: 64GB (2x32GB) Corsair DDR5 Vengeance RGB PC5-44800 (5600Mhz)
- Graphics Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XTX NITRO+ 24GB GDDR6 Ray-Tracing RDNA3 6144 Streams
- 1st Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 (x4) NVMe SSD TLC V-NAND 7450MB/s Read 6900MB/s
- 2nd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 3rd Storage Drive: 2TB Samsung 870 QVO 2.5” SSD SATA III 6Gb/s MJX MLC V-NAND 2GB Cache Read 560MB/s Write 530MB/s 98k/88k IOPS
- 4th Storage Drive: Seagate IronWolf Pro 14TB NAS 3.5″ SATA HDD/Hard Drive
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