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Hands of Necromancy

HON Team · Fulqrum Publishing · 2022-06-20

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Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jun 20, 2022 (Linux), Jun 20, 2022 (Mac), Jun 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Hands of Necromancy is a Dark Fantasy FPS metroidvania, inspired by classics such as Heretic and made with the GZDoom engine. Wield weapons, magic or transform into a fearsome monster to slay your foes, then raise them as undead servants and unleash even more carnage to become a master Necromancer!

83%
positive of 419 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)
Hands of Necromancy is a 2022 first-person shooter video game, developed by Rising Fire Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing. It was built using GZDoom, a modern source port of the Doom engine, and released for Windows, macOS, and Linux. For its retro shooter mechanics, fantasy setting, and metroidvania-style exploration, the game has been described as a spiritual successor to Heretic (1994) and Hexen: Beyond Heretic (1995).

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 35 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity down 3% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 27,808 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.4k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 419 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$0.99-80%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$0.99-80%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.71 at GameBillet (2025-11-21) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 139 of 196 observed days · $0.28 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920222026Week of 2022-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.99$0.712022-06-202026-10-152022-06-20 — best price $11.042023-01-03 — best price $8.992023-04-10 — best price $8.992023-07-31 — best price $3.142023-11-28 — best price $4.992024-02-22 — best price $4.992024-04-22 — best price $4.392024-06-14 — best price $4.992024-07-29 — best price $0.992024-09-04 — best price $0.992024-10-08 — best price $4.992024-11-25 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $4.992025-02-07 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $4.992025-04-28 — best price $4.992025-06-03 — best price $0.992025-07-03 — best price $0.942025-08-02 — best price $0.902025-08-31 — best price $1.042025-09-29 — best price $0.992025-10-25 — best price $0.992025-11-21 — best price $0.712025-12-11 — best price $0.852026-01-14 — best price $4.992026-02-16 — best price $0.992026-03-23 — best price $0.822026-04-22 — best price $4.992026-05-22 — best price $0.862026-06-17 — best price $0.992026-07-20 — best price $0.822026-08-17 — best price $0.992026-09-20 — best price $0.992026-10-05 — best price $0.992026-10-15 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil

Player tags

3DFPSMagicActionDemonsFantasyShooterModdableStylizedDark Fantasy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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