Hand of Fate is an action role-playing video game developed and published by Defiant Development. The player takes the role of a nameless hero that meets a strange Dealer voiced by Anthony Skordi, in a “cabin at the end of the world”. This dealer narrates the player’s adventure, dealing the game’s cards, rewards, penalties, lore, and commentary. He also serves as the primary antagonist for the game. On starting a new game, the player is given a starting deck of cards, consisting of equipment, hero class, and encounter cards. The player earns more cards as they progress in the game, which they can use to customise their deck up to a fixed size. Furthermore, the dealer has his own deck from which surprising elements such as more challenging encounters and monsters are drawn that also grows as the player gains cards and progresses through the game. In the game’s Story Mode, the player must defeat thirteen bosses: twelve court cards and the Dealer himself. These bosses, representing the royalty of each suit, must be defeated in order, but the player can return to previous bosses to challenge again and unlock new rewards. After a certain number of these bosses are defeated, the player also unlocks Endless Mode, which provides an infinite number of “floors” of increasing difficulty for the player to challenge with every card they have collected up to that point.
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