Hand of Fate 2

Hand of Fate 2

Fair · Roguelike · 2017

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
22.2h
Value
$1.35/hr
Reviews
84% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
22.2h
typical playtime (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
101.1h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$1.35
price ÷ typical playtime
Price
$29.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
84%
5,820 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
80
critic score
Players
350K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4600, NVIDIA GeForce GT 630, Radeon HD 5670, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

A new hero rises to challenge the Dealer in Hand of Fate 2! Master a living boardgame of infinitely replayable quests - unlock new cards, build your adventure, then defeat your foes in brutal real-time combat! Draw your cards, play your hand and discover your fate!
Description from the Steam store page.

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

Holding it back
Reviews84% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$1.35/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
Length22 hours
Typical playtime on HowLongToBeat. Endless games score on players, so hours stay out of it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds6 of 704 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

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $5.99. That was December 2021. 77 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

Against its own genre it lands in the top 37 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Hand of Fate ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Monster Slayers ($8.99, scores 51).

Of the 704 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 600 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.

HowLongToBeat players log 22.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 101, 4.6 times as much.

Players

25 players online when we last checked, on Sep 30, 06:47 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Hand of Fate 2 scores 61/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/456670/hand-of-fate-2
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Reviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+4
Critics
80
Players
84
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 5,820 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDefiant Development
PublisherDefiant Development
GenreRoguelike
Released2017