Hand Simulator
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.1h
- Value
- $0.96/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD 4000, GeForce 8800, ATI 1950 or better, 3.6 GB of storage. Windows only.
There are many different levels where you can play with spinners, plunge into the subtleties of handling weapons, milk a cow, take part in a Mexican duel with your friends, have a good time fishing, play chess or simply chat in an anonymous club.
What drives the score
How to read this
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
It has never been cheaper than $0.59. That was October 2019. 66 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Golf It! ($4.49, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Job Simulator ($19.99, scores 58).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 54 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 9,546 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 34 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
42% 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
20 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
This is the greatest 3 dollars me and my brothers have ever spent. If you ever want to just waste time then have fun in the bloody confrence. Just remember to shake the grenade, then throw.
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Hand Simulator scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/657200/hand-simulatorThe 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 Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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