There are always multiple challenges to tackle at once, so if you find yourself stuck on one, you can just go attempt another, get some better cards, and return to the challenge that’s giving you trouble later. However, while some of the game’s later challenges can be particularly grueling, I never really felt stuck or frustrated. This allows the player to inject a small bit of certainty into the otherwise randomized layout of each challenge, but at the end of the day, a particularly nasty run of bad luck can ruin even the best laid plans.
One challenge, for example, plays out like a classic whodunit scenario with the player having to sniff out which of a master thief’s lieutenants are planning to murder him, and another involves escorting a hapless potato farmer while he is assailed by hordes of reanimated skeletons sent by his dead (now undead) lover.Īt the beginning of each challenge, the player can also construct their own personal deck of scenarios, equipment, companions, and supplies using cards they’ve unlocked from previous challenges. I was pleasantly surprised to see just how much gameplay variety Defiant Development was able to squeeze out of Hand of Fate 2’s central gameplay concept. Weaving together his various decks of cards, The Dealer tasks the player with guiding their character through 22 different challenges, each of which features a custom ruleset and special parameters the player must adjust to.Įven though each challenge involves navigating a board of facedown cards in order to complete a specific goal, the exact nature of the board and what the facedown cards do can vary wildly from challenge to challenge. Much like in the first game, Hand of Fate 2 players find themselves caught up in the machinations of the enigmatic (and oftentimes hilariously condescending) figure known as The Dealer. Now, while I don’t have any direct gameplay experience from the original Hand of Fate to compare it to, I can confidently say after having sunk several dozen hours into Hand of Fate 2 that, overall, it’s a very solid (and fun) mix of strategy simulation, deck-building, and action combat gameplay. However, when Defiant released its sequel, Hand of Fate 2, earlier this month and the initial reviews proved favorable, I decided to finally take the plunge. While the game’s card-slinging, dungeon-crawling premise looked and sounded interesting, there were just too many other games that were higher up on my “must buy” list at the time.
I’ll admit I never got around to playing Defiant Development’s original 2015 game Hand of Fate.
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