Sable
Developer Shedworks Publisher Raw Fury Format PC, Xbox Series Origin UK Release 2021
It captured us from its first appearance in November 2017: a tweeted GIF of a hovering craft kicking up a trail of dust across green terrain under a purple sky, all picked out in pastel planes and sharp outlines. The tweets continued as the game, which would later be named Sable, took further shape: the craft became a hover bike and gained a delicious sense of momentum as it zoomed across expanses of open land. A character wearing a movement-expressing red cape was added, expanding the game’s premise as a thirdperson open-world adventure game.