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Hand of Doom
Sign a contract in blood! Travel throughout the planes of existence slaying or befriending powerful doomlords in this wizard simulator inspired by the FMV games and dungeon crawlers of the early 90's. Learn powerful spells to solve puzzles and combat the dark forces amassing against you.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-15.
“It is more like an exploration-adventure game than an RPG. No XP, or progression, and you should just run through enemies whenever you can because the fight is junky. But, if I see this as an adventure game, this game is a hidden gem! The weird FMV cutscenes are charming, and…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“Whether you will like this game or not, is highly subjective. This game is a clear homage to 90s games which made extensive use of FMV The game has: - campy and funny FMV, with often over the top acting (including from the enemies) - janky 90s controls & combat that require…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“I like the concept of this game, and really everything about it, but I got a gamebreaking bug on the last level that no amount or reloading or dying will fix, and I'm not even sure if it's possible to revert to an earlier save. According to the discussion there's lots of…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 22:20 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Official Soundtrack Now Available!!!
The official Hand of Doom soundtrack is now available FOR FREE for all owners of the game!!! ︀︀ ︀︀ Includes tracks by: ︀︀ @Hexenkraft ︀︀ @DanInFiction ︀︀ @AustenKinney ︀︀ @GloryMeat ︀︀ @TorpleDook ︀︀
Hand of Doom Version 1.4
Hello.....again! Torple has been keeping an eye on the Steam forums, and was able to track down some of those more pesky issues some of you have been running into! Check out the chagelog below: Change
Hand of Doom Version 1.3b
Hey! Torple has been keeping an eye on the Steam forums, and was able to track down some of those more pesky issues some of you have been running into! Check out the chagelog below: Changelog: Fixed c
Hand of Doom Version 1.2
Hey everyone! Since Torple released the big update, he's been keeping an eye on reports coming in and has put together an update that should fix some of those bugs! Check out the chagelog below: Chang
Hand of Doom QOL Update
What's up magelets and doomers. It’s been a long time, but I never forgot about Hand of Doom, or the many great people who have supported it. Thank you so much! Hand of Doom was released under very st
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Indie, RPG |
| Player tags | RPG · Adventure · Action-Adventure · Exploration · 3D · FMV · First-Person · Atmospheric · Dark · Dark Fantasy · Horror · Magic (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 18 |
| Estimated owners | 0 – 20,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 32/64-bit Processor: Dual-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.0 GHz or Faster Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or MD Radeon 6870 HD Series DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 12 GB available space