One of the biggest challenges we faced was determining how far to take the sequel without losing sight of what made the original game special in the first place. We had a lot of affection for the setting and the characters, and we didn’t want to leave the board game hybrid concept only half-explored. The team started work on Hand of Fate 2 pretty soon after wrapping development on the first game. PS4B: When did the team start working on this sequel? Any particular challenges during development? Sometimes he’s proud of your achievements, other times he’s disappointed that you’ve managed to defeat him. The whole time this is happening, the Dealer is commenting on the game. If you get into a fight, you’ll fly into the card, all your weapons and artifact cards get equipped, and you engage in cool Action RPG combat. Those cards get folded into the Dealer’s deck and then laid out into a dungeon for the player to explore.Īs you move about the board, the cards will turn over to reveal a cool little story – maybe you meet a goblin in a bar, maybe you come across a traveling merchant, maybe you get attacked by bandits. At the start of the game, you’ll build a hand of cards – each card representing a cool fantasy adventure or a magical artifact you hope to encounter on your journey. You are playing a magical board game against a mysterious, capricious opponent known only as the Dealer.

It’s all wrapped up in the rich atmosphere of a tabletop roleplaying game, and all our fights are resolved with chunky, third-person melee combat. There’s a dungeon-crawling boardgame, collectible card deck-building, there’s choose-your-own-adventure storytelling. Hand of Fate 2 is a nostalgic mash-up of everything we at Defiant love about boardgames and videogames. How would you describe the game to someone who’s never heard about it? PS4B: On that note, Hand of Fate 2 is making its way to Sony’s PlayStation 4 next month.

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