LEXINGTON, KY — September 2026 – Independent game developer Super8BitRafa is preparing to launch the Kickstarter campaign for Fablelight, his one-of-a-kind single-player fighting game that fuses the white-knuckle intensity of Marvel vs Capcom with the branching storytelling of a role-playing epic.
Described by early playtesters as “fast-paced cartoon fun”, Fablelight throws players into a living fairytale where battles affect the story.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/lM8wJUyxMhY?si=f1mlQeHT11pZVWFe
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What if a fighting game treated its single-player campaign like the main event?
NOT JUST A FIGHTER. A FABLE.Fablelight takes traditional fighting-game combat and drops it inside a role-playing adventure.
Players travel through a strange fantasy world, build a party of fighters, gain new abilities and equipment, make choices, encounter alternate routes, and settle problems the only reasonable way: Best two out of three rounds.
Permadeath with Consequences: Get beat bad enough and you lose a character. Permanently.
A Shape-Shifting Roster: Grappler werewolves, charge move robots, zoner witches, and even rush-down hive mind caveman barbarians.
Choose Your Path
Branching narrative and overworld maps that are affected by battle. Explore and discover new areas by breaking through walls mid-fight.
A Hand-Drawn World You Can Bleed On
Every frame of Fablelight is lovingly hand-drawn in a style inspired by 90s cartoons and arcade classics. Think Street Fighter Alpha meets Courage the Cowardly Dog.
The result? A surreal, animated battleground where fairy-tale heroes and villains clash in ways you’ve never seen before.
A FIGHTING GAME BUILT AROUND SINGLE-PLAYER
Modern fighting games are increasingly built around competitive multiplayer, matchmaking, ranked ladders, and esports.
Fablelight is going the other direction, on purpose.
There is no requirement to climb a leaderboard or grind ranked matches to experience the heart of the game. This is a return to the genre's roots, flashing back to 90s-style single-player content.
The campaign is the main mode.
Players can expect:
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2D fighting-game combat w/ motion inputs
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RPG-style character progression
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Party members and dramatic battles
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Equipment and unlockable abilities
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Branching routes and secret areas
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Cartoony art style and SNK-inspired bosses
Fablelight has already begun appearing at fighting-game events, where players have competed, discovered strategies, broken things the developer thought were balanced, and helped shape the game through live feedback.
“This isn’t just a game,” says creator Jacob Rafael Estrada. “It’s a fairy tale you can fight your way through, a story that remembers your mistakes, and a world that won’t forgive you for losing.”
Fablelight's Kickstarter launches September 29, 2026.
KICKSTARTERKickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/815757475/fablelight-a-single-player-fighting-game-rpg
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099620/Fablelight/
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FABLELIGHT AT A GLANCE
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Real fighting-game combat
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A single-player RPG adventure
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Hand-drawn cartoon animation
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Branching paths and encounters
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Party building, equipment, and progression
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Over-the-top Characters
The storybook opens September 29.