Hand Spell | Demo

Hand Spell | Demo is the demo of a turn-based strategy RPG from KOSMIQ, played with hand tracking. You get one chance to break out of a mysterious prison and reach the surface. It is distributed through SideQuest, where it was first listed in June 2020. The full game has its own separate SideQuest listing.

How it plays

Fights are turn-based, and runs include random elements, so attempts play out differently. You cast spells with your bare hands through Quest hand tracking rather than with buttons, and skill cards describe each ability. The listing summary adds that the game has roguelike elements.

An October 2020 update added a permanent upgrade and unlock system. Your score now carries over and can be spent on upgrades and unlocks from the title screen. The same update fixed a guard skill card that showed the wrong hand pose, matched skill text to the cards, made the right-hand fire spell easier to trigger, and tweaked balance and the interface.

The developer thanks a group of community testers for suggestions and points players to a Discord server for news.

Comfort

The developer designed it to be played seated and says it causes almost no motion sickness. SideQuest also marks it as a seated game.

How to get it and what to know

• Price: free; this is a demo.
• Install it from SideQuest by sideloading; our guide to sideloading on Meta Quest walks through the setup.
• Supported headsets: Meta Quest headsets such as the Quest 3 and Quest 3S.
• The full game, Hand Spell, is listed separately on SideQuest.
• Rated 4.5 out of 5 by 34 SideQuest users.