Can I Run Hand of Fate?
Hand of Fate is an action indie game from Defiant Development, released in 2015. Defiant Development both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. It is not Windows only, with macOS and Linux covered too. Steam lists support for 12 languages. Completionists have 53 achievements to work through. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Metacritic places it at 78. Cloud saves are enabled. Over 7 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia 460 GTX / Radeon 5770 - 1 GB of VRAM |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
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Setting and environment
Hand of Fate places its action in a fantasy world, and the player works through runs that rebuild the layout each attempt. It is played from a third person view. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Because the game assembles its spaces as it goes, the cost lands on the CPU in bursts rather than steadily on the GPU.
Why Hand of Fate is demanding
The install is small at roughly 5 GB. It targets DirectX 9.0, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Hand of Fate?
Hand of Fate targets a mainstream modern PC: Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Nvidia 460 GTX / Radeon 5770 - 1 GB of VRAM for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for Hand of Fate?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent; GPU: Nvidia 260 GTS or Radeon HD 4850 - 512 MB of VRAM; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Hand of Fate need?
Hand of Fate needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Hand of Fate?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hand of Fate is the CPU.