Hand of Doom
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.3h 7.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.59/hr
- Reviews
- 87% of 344 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.08 or less.
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
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
About the game
Sign a contract in blood! Travel throughout the planes of existence slaying or befriending powerful doomlords in this wizard simulator inspired by the FMV games and dungeon crawlers of the early 90's. Learn powerful spells to solve puzzles and combat the dark forces amassing against you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or MD Radeon 6870 HD Series, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
23 discounts in the 3 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 86 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Dread Delusion ($19.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats GRAVEN ($24.99, scores 0).
More about Hand of Doom
Of the 306 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026.
The drop-off
22% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 14, 21:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
It is broken, no joke. I ran into 3 glaring bugs in my run. One was an optional objective so I could ignore it, one fixed itself after restarting, and one could have softlocked me if there wasn't a workaround on the forum. Just exiting the game during a quest could break it. But I still have to give it a positive rating - just because it has so much charming style and the gameplay is actually pretty cool. If you can...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The wizard in black reveals the sign 🧙 The chosen are ready, destiny realigns 🔥 Eye of ultra soul, together we join 👁️ Alone again, one again, into the void. 🌌
I could sadly not bring myself to finish HAND OF DOOM, even though this game has everything I should like, it fumbles and slows down heavily during the second area, in the elemental dimensions, in which you wander around aimlessly looking for keys, find a key, go to a new plane, repeat the process, this is fine up to a point, but then you start having to explore areas you couldn't before but can now with new spells...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Hand of Doom scores 61/100 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/1924400/hand-of-doomReviews 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 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.