Hand of Fate
Inspired by tarot and fantasy, all bets are off as you create your own journey by building a collection of cards used to deal out a boardgame-like dungeon teeming with enemies, treasure, and adventure. Upon…
Hand of Fate is an adventure developed by Defiant Development, released 17 February 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux and Mac. It currently starts at $4.99 at GOG.
What Hand of Fate is
Hand of Fate is an adventure game developed by Defiant Development and released in 2015. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a lonely cabin at the end of the world, a nameless wanderer sits down across from a mysterious figure known only as the Dealer. Shuffling a deck of cards, the Dealer conjures an ever-shifting journey through dungeons, monsters, and strange encounters, narrating each turn of the adventurer's fate. As the hero ventures deeper and grows stronger, it becomes clear that the enigmatic Dealer is far more than a simple storyteller. To see the tale through, the wanderer must survive every trial the cards deal and ultimately confront the Dealer himself.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 53 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Hand of Fate holds a critic score of 83 out of 100. That places it above 78% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 14 points above the year average. Players rate it 77, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent, 4 GB RAM and Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 5GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $4.99 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Hand of Fate launched on 17 February 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Cities: Skylines and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D, Cities: Skylines, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Hand of Fate yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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