Hands of Necromancy
Fair · Shooter · 2022
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 10.4h 22.2h to 100%
- Value
- $0.48/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 416 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
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
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About the game
Hands of Necromancy is a Dark Fantasy FPS metroidvania, inspired by classics such as Heretic and made with the GZDoom engine. Wield weapons, magic or transform into a fearsome monster to slay your foes, then raise them as undead servants and unleash even more carnage to become a master Necromancer!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, OpenGL 4.2, 399 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
38 discounts in the 4 years on record, a median of 65 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 25 percent on value. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Project Warlock ($12.00, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Forgive Me Father ($19.99, scores 49).
More about Hands of Necromancy
2 of the 345 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 106 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 31 percent of everything written about it.
10.4 hours to finish it, 22 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
What players say
I do like this game, although I agree with everyone else on the weapons and spells feeling mostly powerless. Cannot wait for Egyptian-themed retro FPS Profaned.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A considerable and valuable Hexen Clone, way enhanced for nowadays times and squeezing out a lot from the rather simple GZ engine. If you like Hexen or similar FPS RGP games, you will feel at home in here too. There are 3 episodes with each 1 main level and hubs, made for finding keys to open the final gate and encountering the boss. Make your early selection when you start the game- The Explorer version is the more...
When fans identified the use of Al art in the trailer for their latest game, and calmly explained why they didn't feel comfortable supporting this, the devs hastily uploaded an Al use disclaimer and swiftly banned those users en masse from the discussion forums. I can overlook the AI use, as it was actually quite minor. What I can't overlook is punishing people for expressing legitimate concerns, treating them like...
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
Hands of Necromancy scores 62/100 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/1898610/hands-of-necromancyReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.