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Hands of Necromancy

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App ID 1898610
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Fulqrum Publishing
Franchise Fulqrum, Hands of Necromancy
Supported Systems Windows macOS Linux
Technologies GZDoom Engine, idTech Engine
Last Changenumber 29957450
Last Record Update 8 July 2025 – 21:40:33 UTC ()
Release Date 20 June 2022 – 17:00:37 UTC ()
❓ 79.64%
345 reviews
2
In-Game

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!

Additional Information

Developer HON Team
controller_support partial
ReleaseState released
Publisher Fulqrum Publishing
Store Release Date 20 June 2022 – 17:00:44 UTC ()
osarch 64
community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.gg/qxHwTdDFdy
https://www.facebook.com/FulqrumPublishing/
https://x.com/FulqrumPub
https://www.youtube.com/c/FulqrumPublishing/
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 20 June 2022 – 17:00:37 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 23 April 2025 – 21:04:07 UTC () (1745442247)
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review_score 8
review_percentage 85
Detected Technologies (?) GZDoom Engine, idTech Engine, Ogg SDK, OpenAL SDK, Vorbis SDK
Content Descriptors Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)
controllertagwizard Yes
First seen on SteamDB 3 February 2022 – 16:52:21 UTC (), in changelist #13852935
Content Descriptors (Including DLC) Frequent Violence or Gore (2), General Mature Content (5)

Supported Languages

6 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes Yes Yes
French Yes Yes
German Yes Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes Yes
Portuguese - Brazil Yes Yes
Russian Yes Yes

Tags

👴 Boomer Shooter 🔫 FPS 🔫 Shooter 🙌 First-Person 👤 Singleplayer 🧝 Dark Fantasy 💥 Action 💨 Metroidvania 🧊 3D 👾 Pixel Graphics 👿 Demons 🎨 Stylized 🎭 Fantasy 🪄 Magic 🛠️ Moddable 🌫 Atmospheric 👾 Retro 😨 Dark 🕹️ Old School 🌱 Indie

Categories

Single-player Steam Cloud Family Sharing Cloud Gaming Cloud Gaming (NVIDIA)

Hardware Categories

Partial Controller Support

Assets

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Trailers
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User File System

Key Value
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Save File Locations

Based on the configuration above, this is where we think the save files are located.

Read more about cloud saves in Steamworks documentation.

Platform Path Pattern
Windows %USERPROFILE%/Saved Games/Hands of Necromancy *.zds
Linux ~/.config/handsofnecromancy *.zds
MacOS ~/Documents/Hands of Necromancy/Savegames *.zds
[All OSes] Platform specific path, e.g. on Linux: ~/.SteamCloud/[username]/Hands of Necromancy/ *.zds
Windows (Override) %USERPROFILE%/Saved Games/Hands of Necromancy
Linux (Override) ~/.config/handsofnecromancy
MacOS (Override) ~/Documents/Hands of Necromancy/Savegames
Windows (Override) This appears to be broken because there is no configuration for [All OSes] and WinSavedGames.
Linux (Override) This appears to be broken because there is no configuration for [All OSes] and LinuxHome.
MacOS (Override) This appears to be broken because there is no configuration for [All OSes] and MacDocuments.
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