Sable is no longer free to keep on the Epic Store, but it is still 50% off
Sable is a chill hang, a good time, and a wonderful sci-fi experience.
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Update 12/19/22:The clock has ticked over and thefree Epic Store game of the dayis now Them’s Fightin' Herds. Sable, however, remains on sale for $12.50
To celebrate the holiday season each year, the Epic Games Storespeeds up its weekly game giveawayinto a daily drop, with a new game becoming free to keep each morning. The offerings so far have been good, don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to take anything away from Horizon Chase Turbo or Costume Quest 2.
But buddy, they ain’tSable. In our review of the game, Nat Clayton declared, “Sable’s lonely, heartfelt journey of self-discovery will sit with me for a lifetime,” and awarded it an enviable 93% score. Sable is currently free on theEpic Games Store, today, December 18, and will be until tomorrow at 11 AM ET/ 8 AM PT/ 4 PM GMT .
I remember following the development of this chill open world exploration game for years and being blown away every time developer Shedworks shared a new snippet of gameplay footage. Sable’s cell shaded art style, an homage to the influential French illustrator Jean Giraud Moebius, is a revelation on the order of Wind Waker’s breakout look. Gameplay aside, Sable is just a visual feast that has to be experienced.
Sable doesn’t have a massive open world, but it’s big enough—handcrafted, full of surprises, and it never wears out its welcome. The game apes Breath of the Wild’s great trick of only doling out a little bit of the map to you at a time, and it’s full of the same sort of devilish puzzles and platforming challenges that were the gameplay highlights of BotW for me. Peak Sable is encountering some sort of stony ruin or crashed spaceship out in the waste that you never expected to find, then plumbing its depths for secrets and treasure.
Sable was formerly available on PC Game Pass, but left the service back in October. Even if Epic isn’t your main launcher of choice, it’s absolutely worth it to log in and grab Sable if you don’t have it yet. I played it at launch on Steam, and I envy anybody who’s about to tackle it for the first time.
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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.
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