Brisbane, Australia - May 15, 2025 | Brisbane-based studios Spitfire Interactive and Defiant Development have announced a slight delay to the Steam demo release of their upcoming roguelike bullet-hell game, Hordes of Fate: A Hand of Fate Adventure. Originally set to launch on May 15, the demo will now release one week later, on May 22.
The delay is due to unfortunate last-minute verification issues. Despite the team at Defiant Development working diligently to resolve the problem, the decision was made to postpone the release to ensure a smooth launch experience.
Defiant Development extends its apologies to fans who were eagerly awaiting the demo and thanks everyone for their patience and understanding.
Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure is launching on PC (via Steam) in 2025, with its demo on Steam now slated to launch on May 22. More updates will be shared leading up to launch on the Spiritfire Interactive X account and their website.
Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure is supported by the Queensland Government through Screen Queensland’s Games Grants.
About Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure
Return to the world of Hand of Fate! Deckbuilding meets auto-shooter in this new title from the original creative team. Draw your cards and carve your way through hordes of lethal monsters. Unlock new heroes, upgrades and encounters, and stack your hand against the Dealer’s fiendish challenge decks.
Build your deck, bring it to life, and hope to survive in this bullet heaven auto shooter. Choose your hero, your weapons and encounter cards, and embark on a series of escalating challenges against hordes of foes to help restore the Dealer’s dominion over his court, one card at a time.
Stack Your Deck
Hand of Fate set the standard for deckbuilding roguelikes in 2016, and now we're allowing you to build your own autoshooter. Text encounters and quests drawn from your deck allow you to unlock Tokens and earn new cards to expand the possibilities and grow your power for each subsequent run.
Discover hidden encounter outcomes and earn powerful weapon enchantments that transform your equipment, branching their power in new directions and creating unique builds and playstyles, keeping each run fresh and unique based on the cards dealt and the choices you make.
Dark Fantasy Bullet Heaven
Defeat minions, upgrade your equipment, and delve ever deeper into the world of Hand of Fate. Collect and assemble a devastating array of weapons and enchantments, and unleash hell upon wave after wave of fearsome monsters in fast and frenetic combat.
Heroes Call
Unlock a collection of heroes from the Hand of Fate universe, each with their own auto-shooting weapon and perk cards that add to the deckbuilding possibilities of each run.
Each hero comes armed with a unique activatable weapon card that can turn the tide of battle when the course of combat and shapes their unique playstyle.
Hand of Fate Reimagined
Uncover new and reimagined encounters and equipment, visit new locations and play as familiar heroes from across the Hand of Fate universe, all from a top-down auto-shooter perspective.
Fight hordes of Hand of Fate enemies and monsters on a scale never like never before.
About Spiritfire Interactive
Spitfire Interactive is a small, independent developer based in sunny Brisbane, Australia, comprised of key creatives behind the Hand of Fate franchise. They're focused on creating high-quality, original titles with a small, talented team.
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