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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!
Hands of Necromancy is a boomer shooter, fps and shooter game
developed by HON Team
and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on June 20th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil and Russian.
It has received 334 reviews of which 287 were positive and 47 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.73€ on K4G.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 64-bit Dual-Core with SSE2 support 2.4GHz+
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 4.2
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any with proper Windows drivers
MacOS
- OS: mac OS 12.0
- Processor: 64-bit Dual-Core with SSE2 support 2.4GHz+ or Apple Silicon (M1)
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: Metal-capable graphics
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any with proper drivers
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 or later
- Processor: 64-bit Dual-Core with SSE2 support 2.4GHz+
- Memory: 1536 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 4.2
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any with proper drivers
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I loved the vibes, retro graphics and feels like a really polished WAD. The spells and level design are amazing, I love the verticality to the levels and nonlinear feel to all of it. Being able to use the different spells to combo off the enemies was great, and of course the transformations are an inspired addition, granting access to other areas of each map with secrets galore. It's sick as hell, made me feel like a kid again. Crack open a can of beer and grab your favorite snack, if you want to feel like a wizard loves to go "hmm" in the most evil voice you've ever heard every 5 seconds, then this is the game for you. I haven't finished the game at the time of this review obviously, but I will absolutely be playing more. Thanks for the nostalgia.
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Nothing wrong with the game overall. I finished the first chapter boss and don't really want to continue. The game plays somwhat similar to Hexen. You progress towards a central HUB level, travel to different levels slowly unlocking new sections, before progressing linearly towards a boss. Exploring each level was fun and I never felt stuck at any point. Level designs and artwork are great. The weapons you get are lackluster. They're mostly spells that do little to no damage and have effects that hinder you more than help. They're not fun to use. Only the fireball staff primary fire feels somewhat useable, and the sword if you can get close enough to use it. Everything else is horrible to use. There are transformations you can use which give you more attack options. The first chapter transformations are not fun and don't help the weapon situation. Having to cycle to the transformation and activate it is just annoying if all you want is to use their attack. Enemies are also unfun. Some are tiny, some are huge and have lots of health, some have untelegraphed attacks. Combining this with the lack of fun weapons just makes you want to quit after you get through the first HUB world. Having to do it all again in chapter 2 with no immediate improvements - that was enough for me to call it quits.
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Pros: Excellent game and it's regularly on sale for just a dollar. You can't get much better value than that. The weapons (there are 7 with 2 attack modes each) and enemies are all fun. It definitely does a great job of feeling like Heretic/Hexen and reminding you just how cool those were back in the day. There are no character classes but that's ok, you're obviously a necromancer, as the name of the game implies. In fact, it goes even further than those games as you can transform into other beasts with spells (4 beasts with 3 attacks each). Also, the weapons don't really run out of importance. You know how some games have weaker weapons that you eventually abandon altogether? This doesn't do that, you'll need to use them all and will have to since there are a lot of enemies and you can't carry a whole lot of ammo. Well balanced game in my opinion! Also, no hitscan enemies so you can properly dodge everything if you take your time and pay attention to your surroundings. In fact, none of your weapons are hitscan either so you'll need to utilize skill to attack AND to avoid taking damage. The level design is incredible in terms of how everything looks and the layout of the individual maps. They are rather detailed with lots of massive differences in height, though it uses a hub style approach which can get confusing for dolts like me. I'd prefer linear progression to hubs any day. With that said, they have a less complicated version where you only have to go to each offshoot from the hub once. Once you have each key from each offshoot, you can open a locked gate in the hub to proceed to a couple of linear levels with a boss fight that culminates with you starting off at the next hub. After all is said and done (3 hubs with all their various offshoots and boss levels, 21 total maps), you proceed to the included expansion which is 9 linear maps. In total you get 30 amazing maps for your boomer shootin' pleasure. There are some negative reviews for this game which mention poor level design but they all had one thing in common, less than 30mins of time in game. I will admit the first couple of maps aren't that special but you can't see enough of them in just a half hour, they're too big for you to get far enough in that amount of time. You gotta try going further or just use cheats to jump to a later map and you might end up loving them like I did. Great sound effects! Simple stuff like weapons, enemies, doors or even just lava pouring down in an area, the sounds are really good with lots of bass for the most part. Some, like the skeleton that throws bones at you, sound a little weak. But most are nicely done. Great use of Vulkan API with GZdoom. Game runs beautifully on 1440p ultrawide without any framerate issues or stuttering even on the biggest maps. Some others reported issues but it might just be that I have some decent hardware (3090ti/i9-12900k/32GBsDDR5-5200) Cons: I did have a consistent reproducible crash (or rather a soft lock and I had to use the task manager to kill the process) on the map 'Earthen Depths' which is a fantastic map by the way. I'd reckon it's my favorite, very large map with loads of narrow cliffs and platforming. Anyway, right before you get to the end of the map it froze up multiple times in the same place, just use the noclip cheat to get around that specific area and you'll be fine. Oddly enough, it is called Hands of Necromancy yet I rarely found a viable use for the 'Hands of Necromancy' item (brings an enemy back to life on your side). Many of the maps are too narrow and heavily dependent on platforming so I found that most of the time the 'Hands of Necromancy' would go to waste as the awful AI gets hung up easily and doesn't help me at all. With that said, the expansion maps were larger and allowed more use of it. Protip: Revive the flying enemies and they'll do a better job following you around and at the very least, will distract some enemies for you.
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A solid Heretic / Hexen inspired FPS. The key hunting is optional and isn't as frustrating as Hexen. You even have a handy notebook to help you keep track. Nice maps, enemies, and weapons. I also liked how you can transform into various creatures.
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It's fine. Nothing special really. Like a lot of people in the comments have said, its basically just a WAD. 5.8/10
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Hands of Necromancy is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam.
Hands of Necromancy is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 4.99€ on Steam.
Hands of Necromancy received 287 positive votes out of a total of 334 achieving a rating of 7.97.
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Hands of Necromancy was developed by HON Team and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Hands of Necromancy is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Hands of Necromancy is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Hands of Necromancy is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Hands of Necromancy is a single-player game.
Hands of Necromancy does not currently offer any DLC.
Hands of Necromancy does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Hands of Necromancy does not support Steam Remote Play.
Hands of Necromancy is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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HON Team
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Fulqrum Publishing
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20 Jun 2022
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