A Hand With Many Fingers

A Hand With Many Fingers

Fair · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
1.5h 1.6h to 100%
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
83% of 530 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews83% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 82% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 380 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Unravel a real conspiracy from deep within the CIA’s archives. Search classified documents and follow new leads in this non-linear investigative thriller.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

26 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

On value it sits in the top 16 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Draugen ($19.99, scores 29).

More about A Hand With Many Fingers

Of the 380 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 304 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 60 percent of everything written about it.

Players

Players online
3 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 16:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

The game is about 90 minutes long, and every moment spent thinking or attempting deduction is time wasted. The gameplay loop is looking up an item in the card index, grabbing the item referrenced by the card index, and then finding the next date and location to look up in the card index, there is effectively no deduction required at all. The real historical setting is interesting enough, and the game seems mostly...
Dishonorable DaveNot recommendedafter 1.6hJul 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
If you're left wondering if the game just abruptly ended or if in fact it did end? then its not a very good or a remotely satisfying ending. I don't mind the non-hand holding approach but this game takes it way too far to the point of it just being bad. I had to google had i completed the game which then led me to many other posts asking the same thing.
HylianrachNot recommendedafter 6.2hJul 2026Read on Steam
This game is what happens when you need to find some informations without Internet. Going (a lot) back and forth, pinning the results on a white board and huge, huge, very huge patience. In this short thriller game, what should have been a boring night reading some old papers become a intense paranoïac night while we unveil the secrets behind a shocking conspiracy. I like the settings. It is simple but efficient. A...
DarklilyRecommendedafter 2.2h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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A Hand With Many Fingers scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1229030/a-hand-with-many-fingers
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

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Details

DeveloperColestia
PublisherColestia
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate