Fable Fortune is a free-to-play Hearthstone-style game Lionhead had been working on in secret alongside the cancelled Fable Legends.
But the core Fable Fortune development team convinced Fable owner Microsoft to license the franchise for use with the game – and, under a new developer called Flaming Fowl Studios, have taken to Kickstarter to ask for 250,000.
“To our delight they were very open to the idea and agreed to grant us the licence for Fable Fortune.
Microsoft have helped us by giving us the license for Fable Fortune, but they are no longer investing in the project.