Out Of Hands Steam Charts & Stats

Fun and obscure game with a strong message, also unique art style.

Haven't played the entirety of it but this is probably one of my new favorite games. The artstyles and aesthetics (especially the music) are amazing additions to a game with such great mechanics. Underrated.

"Your face is made of hands. That’s the least disturbing part." This game is a waking nightmare—surreal, creepy, disturbing, and guaranteed to make your skin crawl. The music oozes with nightmarish, unsettling vibes that perfectly complement the game’s twisted atmosphere. Your face, the world—everything—is made entirely out of fleshy hands and distorted household objects. It’s grotesque, bizarre, and strangely beautiful. This is by far the most artistic game I’ve ever played. Surreal. Abstract. Creepy. Most people I showed this game to thought they were on crack. It’s that wild—and that unforgettable. At its core, it's a very basic card game. It can feel repetitive for some, but personally, I really enjoyed it. I found this game through the YouTuber ManlyBadassHero, and I don’t regret the purchase at all. It even inspired me to possibly make a similar game—a card/strategy game with distorted faces and body horror. Not everyone is going to like this game, but I enjoyed it, and I recommend it to anyone into this sort of surreal, grotesque experience. TL;DR: A simple card game wrapped in one of the most surreal, creepy, and artistic presentations I’ve ever seen. If you like body horror, unsettling visuals, and abstract storytelling, give it a try.

[url=https://nevermoreniche.com/2025/05/22/out-of-hands-is-a-unique-deckbuilder-about-mental-health/] Full review here. [/url] Out of Hands is a true standout game. With a carefully crafted narrative, decent but accessible challenge, and some unique visuals, the game has a lot going for it. While the game is overall on the easier side, the presentation of this game is top-notch and makes the player want to explore its weird and surreal world from top to bottom.

Enjoyable game with a fresh art style. A good pick up if you're a fan of Inscryption or Slay The Spire.

A great deck builder. Unsettling, grotesque, questionable insanity with great story and visuals. Everything works together here uncannily beautifully. It's easy to be driven into the same world mentally as your character is. Wonderfully portrayed.

Quite a fun play with great setting, and gameplay is also a fun take on the deckbuilder genre. Story could use more work.

The best part of this game is the art direction, the second best part is the combat. But when it comes to the story and customizability there are a lot of promises and few deliveries IMO. The combat gets kind of repetitive at least where I find myself in the game. I think the hand mechanic is super interesting, but i feel like the pool of hands you can get is far too small, and the hands are far too unsignificant.

Out Of Hands is an excellent narrative experience, taking you on a journey that truly makes you understand the character you play as and go deep into the world of their mind, this game helped me myself, i felt understood by it and i would forget it entirely just to experience it again. Heavily recommend

At its core, [b]Out of Hands[/b] is a game about obsession. You are plunged into a world that initially makes no sense, comprised of dream-logic, where the only objective is to discover what has brought you this point and why, all through the lens of a mechanically-clever deck-building game. I haven’t decided if, mechanically, it is deep, easy, or both, but I will say that if you are new to the genre, this is likely going to scratch a good itch at helping you to understand why you have a friend who has 100+ hours in games like Slay the Spire, Balatro, and Vault of the Void. While it utilizes the standard 3-energy-per-turn mode of play, the mechanical intrigue comes from the fact that energy is spent acquiring weapons, which can be banked between turns, and since most enemies die after attacking you and you are fully healed between encounters, you can push yourself to build a strong hand (har har har), then unleash a devastating round on your follow-up turn. This, combined with the acquiring of two extra hands early on, and the ability to slim your deck down as much as you want, makes for a game that dares you to break it, and as a result it [i]is[/i] easy to break once you get the gist of it. But we aren’t here just for the cards. We’re here for the vibes. There is an astonishingly sublime presentation to this game that I don’t quite think I’ve seen replicated in any other game that I’ve had interest in playing; I’ve stumbled across games with surrealist imagery in the past, but they were usually reserved to genres or gameplay loops that I didn’t have interest in jumping through. The fact that this game was willing to give me deck-building, psychological horror, and surrealist imagery felt like an alcoholic mixture made just for me, which makes it a very curious game to recommend. Do you like horror games, deckbuilding games, and you happen to find this game’s aesthetic attention-grabbing? Then you absolutely should plunge into it. I have a soft spot for games that can hit a thematic soundtrack, and I feel like Out of Hands’ compositions hit just the right auditory g-spot, where the tracks have a mixture of catharsis, adrenaline, and tension, sometimes all at once. I caught myself humming some of these tracks while I was taking breaks from the game, which is how I benchmark my game OSTs’ values, nowadays. It drives home a feeling of droning isolation in purgatory: And yet, this is somehow all well and good. I couldn’t buy that Artist Choice DLC faster. The audio ambience is also top-notch, and the game is confidently aware of this with how up-front it is about recommending head-phones for maximum value. Those uncomfortable cues only amped up the overall experience of this nightmare-laden journey. I want to make a mention that some others have brought up in other reviews regarding the use of generative AI in [i]very[/i] small specifics. To that I say: The rest of the quality of the game is genuine and that element really shouldn’t push you away. I appreciate that Steam has an AI disclosure, and I also feel like stating that if you purchase a game that features AI, only to then complain that it does, you’re sort of self-sabotaging yourself because the disclosure was there to deter you from voting with your wallet, which you’ve now unintentionally done. At its core, [b]Out of Hands[/b] is a game about obsession. And I feel called out. As someone who regularly indulges in deck-building games on and off the computer, I couldn’t help but spot the game’s enticing trailer, see the blend of card-gaming and horror, and push buy. It was a compulsion, which led me to feel a sort of kinship with the protagonist of the game. He is dealing with his inner-demons while I am indulging and relishing in my own. And yet the greatest thing about this blend, is that upon finishing the game’s three main endings, I couldn’t help but smile at the message the game had to offer for those have dealt with a loved one’s passing. Finishing one ending led me to immediately want to experience the others, because I was still quite hooked on it game loop enough to not feel bored; Side note: Love that it lets you experience the other endings without the grind of re-doing the final level; BIG kudos to that. It feels like creator noticed the way good ol’ Eternal Darkness handled its red/green/blue endings of replaying the whole thing again and said nah to that. By the time I finished all three, I realized that this character, this avatar of a potential other player, is presented with the reality of how one deals with his obsession. And while I’ve taken my own healthy partings after dealing with the deaths of loved ones, Out of Hands shines a strong light on what comes next after the sorrow. Will you let go of your obsessions? What about my obsession with deck-builders? Sorry, Out of Hands. I’m full self-consumed ending on that front. Wonderful game. It’s an easy game of the year contender for me based on its unique premise and presentation, alone. Enjoy the ride.