Even among the crowd of gorgeous illustrated games, At Fate's End is stunning enough to stand out

I've been writing about games for long enough that my threshold for a single piece of artwork grabbing me by the shoulders and screams "PLAY ME!!" in my face is pretty damn high. I did not attend an Xbox indie showcase at this year's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco with a plan to play At Fate's End. I did not, in fact, know At Fate's End existed. But a few seconds of animation was all it took to magnetize me to that demo chair.

Even compared to stiff competition like Supergiant's Hades or last year's Dispatch...