Fable is about to bring us into an open-world version of Albion that's home to a living population of over 1000 NPCs, and I'm happy to confirm that you can romance almost all of them.

With the Xbox Developer Direct revealing that we can get to know the NPCs, go on dates, get married, and even have kids, I took the opportunity to ask Playground Games' general manager Ralph Fulton if we could feasibly woo and wed any one of NPCs we encounter in the world.

"With a very few exceptions, the answer is yes," Fulton says. "We went into this with some non-negotiables that we felt were just really important in this area of the game. So we said from the start, I want to be able to talk to any NPC. Now, obviously in the original games, you did that through gestures. We wanted to do that in fully voiced conversations in this game. So you kind of throw that challenge at the narrative team and the audio team, and they go away, and they kind of figure out how they're going to do that."

I have so many fond memories of trying to romance and eventually marry noble townsfolk in Bowerstone, or win the heart of a travelling NPC in an encampment in Fable 2. Of course, in those days, I'd have to flex my muscles at them, dance a jig, or give them a present. But it sounds like the Fable reboot is really stepping things up not only when it comes to NPCs, but in the love department, too. And of course, not every match will work out, because yes, you'll be able to divorce them… or they can divorce you.

"You can talk to them, you can romance them, you can marry them. You can divorce them or be divorced by them," Fulton says. "You can have children with them. You can hire them. You can fire them. They are [the NPCs] kind of a game within a game, but they are such a unique, fundamental part of Fable."

As Fulton explains, in Fable, there's an "abundance of things" that will give you different reputations with the many NPCs across settlements. With a kind of witnessing system at play that will see them judge the actions they've seen or known you've done in the world, every NPC will feel differently about what you do based on their own worldviews, personalities, and traits.

"We kind of saw a little bit of it in the footage from the piece [Xbox Developer Direct], when those little words are sort of popping up on screen," Fulton says, "that's somebody seeing you being generous, or dishonest or dishonorable, or a bigamist, or whatever. So there's an abundance of things for them to react to."

As you might have noticed there, Fulton mentions that yes, you can be a bigamist and marry more than one person. But you better believe the people you meet will have opinions about that if they find out. With so many NPCs to get to know, potentially marry, and more, I can't wait to find love in Albion – and maybe stir some drama while I'm at it.

"We've stuck with the ambition we had right at the start": How Fable's open world fantasy lets you meddle in the lives of over 1000 living NPCs.

Nothing irritates me quite like getting my heart set on an in-game cosmetic only to learn it's from some marketing campaign I missed ages ago, but fortunately, that's not the case with Enshrouded Twitch Drops.

While the survival crafting RPG offers incentives for tuning into livestreams of Embervale, you aren't totally screwed out of that adorable Fluffy Hood or fancy Flame Pact Vest if you miss any limited broadcast windows. Instead of tuning into streams, you can just complete quests that reward Enshrouded Twitch Drops.

How to get the latest Enshrouded Twitch Drops

The Blood Rose set and Heart Pillow

• Blood Rose Boots and Pants - 1 hour
• Blood Rose Gloves - 1 hour and 30 minutes
• Blood Rose Chestplate - 2 hours
• Blood Rose Heart Pillow - 3 hours
• Blood Rose Mail Coif - 4 hours

The Blood Rose set (and super cute heart-shaped cushion) are available for two weeks via Twitch Drops, starting Thursday, January 22, and ending on February 5, 2026.

Not tuning in? You can get the Blood Rose set in-game

I'm chipping away at collecting Enshrouded's Blood Rose set in-game, but don't have it all pieced together just yet. For now, I can at least tell you the quest begins with the Huntress, and if you need something to keep you busy during the wait, keep scrolling for more cosmetics you may have missed.

How to enable Enshrouded Twitch Drops

1. Visit the official site for linking Enshrouded drops
2. Select the "Connect to Steam" and "Connect to Twitch" icons
3. Log in to both services and authorize Enshrouded for drops
4. Visit the Enshrouded directory on Twitch.tv to start watching
5. After completing a milestone, claim your drop from the Twitch Inventory page
6. From your Enshrouded world, hit the ESC key and select Twitch Drops

Now you should be able to add the cosmetic items to your inventory as many times as you like and whenever your heart desires. Just remember, you can't share these with friends, and finding the in-game versions will not permanently unlock the drops from this menu.

The Blood Rose cosmetic set and Heart Pillow are the most recent Twitch Drops, so if you're looking for other stream-exclusive giveaways you'll have to rely on a bit of Enshrouded questing to obtain the gear.

Find the Siren Seeker cosmetic gear

Siren Seeker set

• Siren Seeker Sandals - Dragondream Lake
• Siren Seeker Pants - Cromville Hot Springs
• Siren Seeker Gloves - Starfish Shores
• Siren Seeker Chest - Lake Heartblood
• Siren Seeker Headband - Little Lagoon

You'll need the Mining Sieve to reach Siren Seeker set pieces, available from the Blacksmith's A Tool For Underwater Mining quest.

Missed it? Here's how to get the Siren Seeker set

Issuing NPC: None; quest begins after picking up a Siren Seeker set piece
Quest: The Cosmetic Siren Seeker Outfit
Location: Underwater ruins throughout Veilwater Basin

The Siren Seeker Headband is in Little Lagoon, south of the Ancient Obelisk. Start by facing Drak'Dal Temple from the land to the south. Dive into the lake near an Aquamarine deposit, then look along the southern wall for a boulder with an underwater cave entrance to the left. The headband chest is buried underneath a rubble pile in the back of the cave.

Obtain the Siren Seeker Chest by gliding east in Lake Heartblood from the Veilwater Basin Ancient Spire. Once you're on the opposite side of the large rock formation, dive down until you reach a small shipwreck and open the golden chest for your chest piece.

You'll find the Siren Seeker Gloves between the Drak'Dal Temple and Fish Farm at Starfish Shores. It's underwater in another shipwreck, along the wall near one of the bigger rock formations in the lake.

The Siren Seeker Pants are in northern Cromville Hot Springs, where the series of waterfalls begin. Enter the cave just behind the waterfall and take a brief dive. The pants are inside another chest concealed by a shipwreck.

The Siren Seeker Sandals are in Dragondream Lake, west of Tavern Ol' Salt 'N Pepper. Dive into the lake and look for another shipwreck's cross-shaped sail. The boots are buried just underneath the gold coin piles.

Find the Scholar of the Empyrean cosmetic gear

Scholar of the Empyrean set

• Scholar of the Empyrean Boots - Slightly northeast of the Nomad spire
• Scholar of the Empyrean Pants - Northeast of Rat Infested Outpost
• Scholar of the Empyrean Cloak - Northwest of Rattlebleak
• Scholar of the Empyrean Helmet - East of Vukah Cave Page, near a gem forge
• Scholar of the Empyrean Gloves - Northwest of Ternion Mine
• Scholar of the Empyrean Cloak - Northwest of Rattlebleak

Missed it? Here's how to get the Empyrean set

Issuing NPC: None; quest begins after picking up an Empyrean set piece
Quest: The Cosmetic Scholar of the Empyrean
Location: Night Sanctums in the Nomad Highlands

It's not hard, but obtaining all five items from the Empyrean set may take a while since each piece requires completing a Nomad Highlands Night Sanctum. They're rather straightforward dungeons, but I suggest crafting a stack of lockpicks and collecting five Sparks from Flames for the journey. Perhaps it's a bit obvious by the name, but Night Sanctums are only open at night, and you'll need two sparks to enter.

I recommend teleporting to the Nomand Highlands Ancient Spire after completing each dungeon and using it as a central point to glide to your next destination. I've included a map in the gallery above to outline every sanctum you'll need to visit to complete the Scholar of the Empyrean set—hopefully that keeps you from my mistake of visiting every Night Sanctum I didn't need to complete.

Find the Flame Pact cosmetic gear

Flame Pact set

• Flame Pact Hat
• Flame Pact Gloves
• Flame Pact Vest
• Flame Pact Pants
• Flame Pact Boots

Unlike the Fluffy, Empyrean, and Siren Seeker sets, the Flame Pact cosmetic unlocks all at once from opening a single chest in-game.

Missed it? Here's how to get the Flame Pact set

Issuing NPC: The Flame
Quest: Celebrate the Pact of the Flame
Location: Temple Ruin (Springlands spire)

Keep growing your village until you've recruited the Blacksmith, Hunter, Alchemist, and Farmer, then speak to The Flame. Once you've satisfied its demands for expanding your base and flame strength, you'll receive the quest Celebrate the Pact of the Flame.

Your destination is Temple Ruin, a crumbling, easy-to-miss building northeast of the Springlands spire. Follow the path under the stairs and destroy the barrel (and spiders) blocking Temple Ruin's secret entrance. Once inside the ruins, grapple across the gap, hit the button to unlock the door above, then defeat the freshly risen skellies. All five pieces of the Flame Pact set are waiting for you in the glowing coffin.

Find the Fluffy set and Gnome Twitch Drops

The Fluffy set

• Fluffy Hood - Fairfield Goat Farm
• Fluffy Mittens - Grassy Pasture Goat Farm
• Fluffy Tunic - Enshrouded Goat Farm
• Fluffy Pants - Wickmouth Goat Farm
• Fluffy Boots - Little Rock Goat Farm

Missed it? Here's how to get the Fluffy set

Issuing NPC: None; quest begins after picking up a Fluffy set piece
Quest: Finding the Cosmetic Fluffy Set
Location: Goat farms across the Albaneve Summits

The Fluffy Hood is easy to find if you glide into the valley just west of the Albaneve Summits Ancient Spire. Look for the small shed on the east side of the farm; it's buried underground in a chest.

Matching Fluffy Boots are northeast of the spire at Little Rock Goat Farm. Grab a lockpick and head into the small room at the top of the main building to find the chest.

Look for the Fluffy Mittens far in the northeast corner of the summits at Grassy Pasture Goat Farm; they're inside the only nearby building in another locked chest.

The Fluffy Pants are at Wickmouth Goat Farm to the southeast of the spire. Look for the house with locked double doors, then head inside and use the grappling hook to reach the loft above the door. You'll find the trousers there, inside yet another chest needing a lockpick.

The Fluffy Tunic is likely your last piece since it requires you fully upgrade the Flame. Head to the Enshrouded Goat Farm northeast of the Albaneve Summits Ancient Spire and look behind the back of the building. You'll spot it tucked away inside a small cave along the ground, not inside the actual building.

Find the Gnome Twitch Drop in Wistful Fields

Issuing NPC: Fenrig
Quest: Finding a Garden Gnome
Location: Wistful Fields (Low Meadows spire)

After you recruit Fenrig from the Wolf Cave, place him around your base to start the quest Finding a Garden Gnome. Head to the Low Meadows Ancient Spire and glide north until you reach Wistful FIelds, there's a series of lore snippets you can pick up around the village here to find out where the gnome is hidden, but you don't have to find them to continue.

Either way, when you're ready, look north from the southernmost building in Wistful Fields and walk toward the garden on the left side of the path. The gnome is buried here, so you'll need a pickaxe to dig it out. If you're struggling, just wait until night—quest items glow red, and they're easier to spot in the dark.

Boldly I will log onto the internet today and admit I am boring. I've never installed Wicked Whims. The notorious adult content addon is one of the biggest Sims 4 mods out there, quickly updated after every official patch as fans lament they can't bear to play without it. It sure feels like everyone but me is Wicked-pilled, which may not be far from the truth: The mod's creator says that it gets launched an astonishing 400,000 times per day.

German news site Taz (Die Tageszeitung) published an interview this week with Turbodriver, the modder behind Wicked Whims and its less naughty equivalent Wonderful Whims. It's a bit of a drive-by in which Turbodriver only briefly touches on topics like being compensated for modding, access to adult content online, and whether he finds his mods controversial.

The details about himself he's willing to share (his identity not among them), mostly boil down to not seeing himself as an educator or an activist. Wicked Whims has contraception, explicit sex, and abortion, but that's in pursuit of the realism that players want more than making a statement, he claims.

What was way more enlightening to me was the girthy daily player count that Turbodriver estimated. Translated from German by Google Translate, Turbodriver said that Wicked Whims is used 400,000 per day. "That's how often my server is pinged, at least, because someone starts the game and has installed the mod."

That's not 400,000 unique users per day, mind. Turbodriver may not have access to that information and the 400K figure likely includes some of the same users playing more than once per day. Horny doesn't sleep, you know. In a Patreon post from December, Turbodriver says that the number of Wicked Whims players has been growing every year alongside The Sims 4's main playerbase.

I'm attempting to convert apples to oranges here, but looking at the concurrent players (not daily unique users) for the top games on Steam via Steam.db versus the 400,000 daily launches (also not daily unique users) for Wicked Whims, it seems like the number of folks playing just Wicked Whims (versus unmodded The Sims 4) could hold its own in the consistent top 10 games being played at any time on Steam.

It's tough to dismiss Wicked Whims as a niche mod for horn dogs when you see that kind of number. It's come by that smutty reputation fairly—the top line feature is "fully animated and interactive sex"—but you're more likely to hear Sims fans online praising it for realistically depicting fertility and menstruation or the nuanced attraction system that they prefer over what was added in the official Lovestruck expansion.

As for what he's working on adding to Wicked Whims next, aside from the less sexy bug fixing and code library improvements he also detailed in the December post, Turbodriver gave Taz one little spoiler: a new camgirl profession. It really is all work and no play around here in sex mods land.