Setting
Fabletown, the Fables Comic, and This Season
The Wolf Among Us is set in 1986 New York. Fabletown is the secret neighborhood where characters from old stories hide among humans, called mundies, by wearing glamour. People who will not hide are sent to the Farm. The comic is Bill Willingham's Fables. Wikipedia places the game about twenty years before that comic, and IGN's remaster review calls the game a non-canon prequel. The remaster does not move the year.
Words the game expects you to know
Definitions follow Wikipedia's summary of the game and the comic it adapts.
| Term | In this story |
|---|---|
| Fable | A character from a story, living in exile |
| Mundy | An ordinary human |
| Glamour | A spell that makes a fable look human |
| The Farm | Where fables go if they will not hide |
| Homelands | The world they fled |
| The Woodlands | The apartment building that houses the office |
| Fabletown office | Snow, Crane, and Bigby, in that building |
Comic, game, remaster, sequel
The comic is the later shelf of the same idea. The game tells an earlier murder. IGN's 'non-canon prequel' label means you should not force every comic fact onto Bigby's 1986. The remaster keeps that 1986 case and rebuilds how it looks. The Wolf Among Us 2, due in 2027, is the next case, set about six months later.
Questions people actually search
When is The Wolf Among Us set?
1986, in New York.
Is it the Fables comic?
It is based on that comic and set earlier. IGN calls the game a non-canon prequel.
Did the remaster change the setting?
No. The year and the plot stay.
Sources
Checked 30 Oct 2026.