Defiant Development

Profile updated Jun 2026

Defiant Development is the developer behind Hand of Fate, with 2 titles on Steam and 16,420 total reviews. Defiant Development games listed on indielist include Hand of Fate and Hand of Fate 2, with Action as the dominant genre for this Action developer.

Defiant Development is an indie game studio. indielist tracks 1 title by Defiant Development, together holding 10,645 Steam reviews. Its most-reviewed game is Hand of Fate, which holds 10,645 Steam reviews (2015). Across its catalog the studio has worked with 1 publisher, including Defiant Development. indielist tracks releases from Defiant Development starting in 2015. This profile sits inside indielist's relationship graph of studios, publishers, and games, so players can find more titles from the same team, developers can compare portfolios and team sizes against peers, and investors can trace which publishers and genres the studio works across. Where Steam review data is available, indielist also publishes a transparent, white-box sales estimate for each of the studio's games, showing the full Boxleiter factor breakdown rather than a single black-box number, so the commercial picture behind Defiant Development can be audited rather than taken on trust.

On the business side, Defiant Development has shipped with 1 publisher (Defiant Development), and indielist maps each of those relationships as an edge in its studio-to-publisher-to-game graph. That matters to two audiences in particular: an investor can trace which labels have backed this studio and how that roster has changed over time, while a developer can see which publishers are already comfortable signing work in the studio's genres before deciding where to send a pitch. This is the kind of sourcing intelligence that is slow and tedious to reconstruct from Steam store pages alone, because the storefront never exposes who introduced whom. Each linked publisher page in turn lists its full roster, deal tier, and current submission status, so the network around Defiant Development can be walked outward in either direction rather than read as a flat, disconnected list.