MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut

MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut

Skip · Action · 2015

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 49, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
1.2h
Value
$3.33/hr
Reviews
80% of 228 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

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 111 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

Raising the score
Engagement22% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.33/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews80% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 78% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 48 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

Retro platforming action in this adaptation of a terrible movie.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 21 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 15 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 16 weeks ago.

On value it sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 68 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures ($4.99, scores 75) and Owlboy ($19.99, scores 52) both outscore it.

More about MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut

Steam's global achievement data puts 22 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15.

The drop-off

22% start to 22% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/350780/manos-the-hands-of-fate-director-s-cut
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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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperFreakZone Games
PublisherFreakZone Games
GenreAction
Released2015
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements6