Action · November 7, 2017

Hand of Fate 2 (2017)

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Hand of Fate 2 is a dungeon crawler set in a world of dark fantasy. Master a living boardgame where every stage of the adventure is drawn from a deck of legendary encounters chosen by you! Choose wisely - your opponent, the enigmatic Dealer, will pull no punches as he shapes you into the instrument of his revenge. The table has changed, but the stakes remain the same: life or death! KEY GAME FEATURES A world transformed - 100 years have passed since the Dealer was usurped and the Game of Life and Death gained a new master. 22 exciting new challenges that will push your deck-building skills to the limit - Hunt fiendish assassins, reunite star-crossed lovers or build up a fortress to withstand a raider assault! Enlist the aid of all new companion characters - team up with them in battle, or have them bend the rules of the boardgame in your favor! Hundreds of new encounters, artifacts and items to earn and upgrade. Enhanced action-RPG combat - shred foes with quick dual-wielded daggers or brutalize them with heavy two-handed hammers. Build up your combo meter to unleash powerful special attacks! Engage new foes united by all-new card suits - Cross swords with disciplined Imperial soldiers, purge corrupted mutants and fend off northern raiders.

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180 Action titles launched in 2017 — top 6 by review volume.

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • RPG · 96
  • Roguelike Deckbuilder · 89
  • Card Game · 89
  • Action · 80
  • Deckbuilding · 80
  • Rogue-lite · 64
  • Indie · 58
  • Action Roguelike · 58
  • Singleplayer · 56
  • Board Game · 41
  • Fantasy · 34
  • Rogue-like · 30
  • Dungeon Crawler · 26
  • Hack and Slash · 25
  • Choices Matter · 17

Peer Action titles

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Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume5.7k Steam reviewsTop 56% in Action
Positive rating84% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 58%
Metacritic80/100Genre average 77 — top 42% of Action titles
Engagement hours17 h averageTop 29% for session depth among Action

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (11)

  • English volume_up
  • French
  • Italian
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese volume_up
  • Polish volume_up

Full audio (3)

  • English
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Polish

Reception Metrics

Steam community

84%Mostly Positive · 5.7k reviews

4.8k positive · 909 negative

Metacritic

80/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.7/10

Curator recommendations

5.2k

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards
  • Remote Play on TV

Input & Comfort

  • Full controller support

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Press Quotes

“A bigger, better game than its predecessor in almost every respect, and one with a sense of journey and surprise to its gambling, fighting and dying, which makes it feel rather like a card-based, fantasy FTL” Rock Paper Shotgun “Hand of Fate 2 improves upon nearly every aspect of the original, providing diverse new challenges that help build the world around the Game of Life and Death” 8.5 – GameWatcher “The result is a captivating Dungeons & Dragons-style adventure grander…

Release & Availability

Release dateNov 7, 2017
DeveloperDefiant Development
Base price$29.99
DLC / Add-ons4 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksOfficial site · Metacritic page · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

17h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

4h

Typical completion time

Achievements

99

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

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