Hand of Fate
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $3.99.
- Length
- 10.7h
- Value
- $0.37/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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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.
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.
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
December 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 99 in the 12 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $3.99 at 80 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 78 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Book of Demons ($24.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Monster Slayers ($8.99, scores 51).
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 547 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,196 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 62, 5.8 times as much.
The drop-off
91% 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
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The Good: Dealer Writing The Bad: Everything else. This is very annoying to 100%, and the game's balance is way worse than HoF 2. Combat is also very unpolished. The Ugly: This game can easily 100% your GPU without you knowing. It was the first time I heard weird noises from my GPU fans, and went to check in Libre Hardware Monitor. Yep, 94 C temp, 95% fan speed max Wattage. So this can also get you a big electricity...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Hand of Fate scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/266510/hand-of-fateThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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