Punch Club (2016)

Lazy Bear Games

Android · Linux · Mac · Nintendo 3DS · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One · iOS

3.19 from 233 ratings

1649 members have it in their collection · 17 playing now · 784 backlogged · 28 wish listed

How long? Main story 20h · with extras 10h · 100% 16h (from 6 logged playthroughs)

Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon. Punch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines. Your goal is clear, but how you get there depends on whether you want to legitimately … Read more
Train hard, fight crocodiles and find love. Earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who brutally murdered your father, in this choose your own adventure boxing management tycoon. Punch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines. Your goal is clear, but how you get there depends on whether you want to legitimately climb the rankings, or take the more ridiculous, shady route. Along the way you'll want to focus your talents. Will you take the Way of the Tiger, the Way of the Turtle, or the Way of the [other one?]? Your strength, accuracy and agility all depends on whichever Way enlightens your path. Do you have stripes, or flippers? And every decision will matter, especially in your social life. You'll be juggling friendships, love life, work, recreational time, relationships, and possible stardom, all alongside your gym time and fighting aligators. It's not all just pumping iron, you know. Read less
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Details

Developers
Lazy Bear Games
Publishers
tinyBuild
Genres
Fighting, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Sport, Strategy
Themes
Action
Steam
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Release dates

  • Jan 08, 2016 (Worldwide) Android, Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS
  • Jan 13, 2016 (Worldwide) iOS
  • Jan 18, 2017 (North_America) Nintendo 3DS
  • Feb 02, 2017 (Europe) Nintendo 3DS
  • Mar 31, 2017 (Worldwide) PlayStation 4
  • Mar 31, 2017 (North_America) Xbox One
  • May 24, 2018 (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch
  • May 24, 2018 (North_America) Nintendo Switch

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Rating distribution

5 stars
21
4 stars
61
3 stars
103
2 stars
38
1 star
10
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deepdoop

Review deepdoop 3/5 · Jan 27, 2016

7.5/10


Would have been an 8 if it wasn't for a few flaws. One of which is that the stat decline is too harsh, which is a shame because it makes sense that if you don't train you'll get worse... but pro fighters wouldn't lose a level of your skills for taking 2 days off. It also gets a little …

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7.5/10


Would have been an 8 if it wasn't for a few flaws. One of which is that the stat decline is too harsh, which is a shame because it makes sense that if you don't train you'll get worse... but pro fighters wouldn't lose a level of your skills for taking 2 days off. It also gets a little tedious and difficult to get out of the grind on occasion, and it feels like the game kinda favours certain builds, which is a trap that RPGs can fall into sometimes.

But I still love the systems. There are a lot of skills, a lot of management to do--whether it's eating, hanging with the girl, seeing Tyler Durden, working, training, etc-- and it's easy to get addicted to it for a while. The fights are stressful since you don't control them, but it's like you're in the corner so that's cool. It's a surprisingly deep game with a ton of variables, like randomly having to beat up someone robbing a store, and the game does do a good job of introducing new things. It's just bad that it's not always easy to enjoy these because of the routine. But I still dug it, regardless.

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