Hand of Fate
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2014.
- Cost per hour
- $0.37/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 10,694
- Critics
- 78 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 11% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 10.7h
- To 100%
- 63.8h 6.0x the story
- Achievements
- 53
Price and sales
- Sales
- 100 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 December 2020
- Sale every
- 39d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 7 now
- Cheaper than
- 9% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
91% start to 1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 100 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Book of Demons ($24.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Hand of Fate 2 ($5.99, scores 61).
More about Hand of Fate
The press gave it 78; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 548 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,194 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 10.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 64, 6.0 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The deckbuilding aspect of this game is cool. The story and combat also play well
2 more reviews
It took about 17 hours for me to finish the main boss run. I then played another 10 hours to unlock all the encounters/cards. So a total of 27 hours of enjoyable play time using the normal/default difficulty. It probably would have been less if I would have figured out some boss mechanics faster. After mostly unlocking everything, there really isn't much more to do so end game (endless mode) is just repeating the...
It's a little clunky, but when you adapt, it's a pretty fun game. Not great but very much worth it on sale.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Hand of Fate scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266510/hand-of-fateReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.