Hey, that’s the Gary Oldman Dracula armour, I thought to myself as I watched the trailer for At Fate’s End last night. That’s the raddest and reddest armour anyone has ever worn, and any game with armour that looks like it has my interest. Oh, oh. It’s from Spiritfarer developers Thunder Lotus? You can ride a giant bull who looks like it subsists entirely on HGH and Weetabix? Yeah, go on then. Go on all the way.
“At Fate’s End is an action-adventure game where you fight the ones you love,” reads Steam. The general gist, as I understand it, is you’ll be scrapping with your family over who gets the cool Gary Oldman armour. You play as Shan, heiress to the cool armour and probably some money also, and you’ll be duelling your estranged relatives, puzzling, making story choices, and shaping the fate of your family.
“Your blade may cut deep, but your journey will demand more than combat prowess,” the Steam blurb continues. “Shape confrontations through tactical dialogue and psychological insight, using your deep knowledge of your family’s secrets to gain the upper hand”. This makes me picture Monkey Island insult duels where you reveal how weird your cousin was and still is about sprouts, although I imagine it’s likely a bit more emotionally resonant than that. Could one write a heartrending dialogue exchange centered around sprouts? I’d like to see it.
Alice Bell (RPS in peace) really liked Spiritfarer when she reviewed it, which is understandable, her being a person that played Spiritfarer. “Spiritfarer’s cosy management is a thousand acts of kindness, beautifully done,” Alice wrote. “It will make you sad, but it even does that in a kind way.” At Fate’s End is out sometime next year.