Rating
Sable
Sable is a coming-of-age tale of discovery through exploration across a strikingly rendered open world desert. Go on a deeply personal journey across an alien planet while learning its history and discovering Sable’s place in the world.
Details
- Released
- September 23, 2021
- Developer
- Shedworks
- Genres
- Platform · Puzzle · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie · Open world
- Publisher
- Raw Fury
- Platforms
- PC · PS4 · Xbox One · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
How it plays
Time to beat · 4 player times (IGDB)
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Sable Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
Sable is a coming-of-age tale of discovery through exploration across a strikingly rendered, open-world desert.
Shedworks has created a gorgeous throwback of an adventure game that settles the player in for a leisurely, minimalist voyage of self-discovery.
These issues are unfortunate because Sable is a remarkable game that would normally warrant a higher rating. But the problems, although minor for the most part, were encountered with such regularity that they can’t be overlooked. Hopefully, Raw Fury will fix these hiccups quickly because, without those flaws, Sable truly is a beautiful and minimalist journey through an open world that is a joy to explore.
It’s your very own desert coming-of-age story! In the world of Sable, traverse a unique and enchanting world, climb the highest peaks, solve puzzles and make ancient discoveries, assist other travelers or even map out the continent – it’s all up to you!
We tell you, it’s a good game! It’s not average! It might have some problems here and there, but you have to admit it is a “Good” game.
Sable is another indie gem that is easy to miss in the shadow of all the big titles that will be released this autumn. This is one of the reasons why I like Xbox Game Pass as much as I actually do. They give indie developers a good platform to stand on and it costs nothing extra besides even some precious time to test these smaller titles and more often than not you come across gems like Sable. If you have a free weekend or just a day without plans in front of you, I can definitely recommend that you download this and give it a chance.
Sable's plethora of technical faults compels me to warn everyone about its current state on PS5, but I still sincerely hope you'll embark on The Gliding someday.Cartographer. Merchant. Entertainer. Machinist. In the modern world, these are occupations you may just happen to casually glom [...]
Take away the technical issues, and Sable is a pretty good game. It's not great, because some fundamental design issues do hold it back, but it would still be worth checking out. As it stands, however, the game is a mess technically speaking, with frame rate drops, pop ins, crashes, hard locks, and long loading times. If there is a good game in here, it's really hard to get to, and it might be best to wait till after some of the technical issues have been ironed out.
Sable should be applauded for its strong aesthetic choices and ambitious restructure of open-world priorities, but it fails to fully deliver on its premise and is ultimately undone by a lack of polish or engaging mechanics.
When I meet the mask crafter for the first time, I am unsure if I am touching a spirit, god, or machine. The machinists, whose ranks I plan to join today, would probably dismiss the distinction altogether. As I remember this, my hoverbike Simoon purrs outside the tent. She has been a good teacher.
Sable shines as one of the best titles I’ve played all year.