This new deck builder, based on The Fable, lets you create manga pages for each battle

Katsuhisa Minami’s The fable is a story about hitmen and yakuza, but it doesn’t get the type of game you’d expect. Instead, developer Mono Entertainment has The fable: manga-build-roguelike ensures that you create the perfect manga page for every battle.

It’s not often that every aspect of a game’s genre is already reflected in the title, but in this case it is. The fable was announced as a roguelike deckbuilder where panels from Minami’s manga are the cards (via Gematsu). When it’s time to fight, these scenes are randomly dealt out, giving you a chance to craft the perfect page for each confrontation.

It’s not just about the story the panels convey. Each panel has a specific effect, from attacking to moving to defending. The order in which the manga is read determines when each panel and its effect are activated, making careful placement the key to defeating enemies. You can see what it looks like in action in the announcement trailer.

The fable follows notorious assassin Akira Sato, known in the underground as The Fable. It turns out he was a little too good at his job, so the series follows him as he’s forced to lay low and live a normal life. The most important rule during his year-long hiatus: he can’t kill anyone. He doesn’t mind — he even gets a pet parrot and a regular job — but the yakuza aren’t going to make it easy for him.

Though the style and subject matter are practically tailor-made for live-action – it has two films so far – an anime series from Tezuka Productions also told the story back in April of this year. The manga is available via Kodansha, the films are on Netflix, and the anime is on Hulu.

If The fable: manga-build-roguelike is to play as the source material is to read, we might have something special on our hands. We’ll find out when it launches on Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam—with English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese options—sometime in 2025.

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