MANOS: The Hands of Fate ~ Director's Cut (2015)

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Developer: FreakZone Games
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie
Rating: 4.0 of 5, 227 player ratings
Typical playtime: about 1.1 hours
Where to get it: Steam

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How it feels

A retro-style platformer with absurd, humorous homages to old movie tie-in games and a quirky challenge.

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What players say

Players say this NES-style throwback is charming in its references to MST3K and bad movies, but opinions split on the difficulty. The opening levels are fun, while later stages frustrate with cheap deaths, auto-scrollers, and random boss patterns. Some report performance trouble on PC.

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