Indie · January 8, 2016

Punch Club (2016)

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To thank the fans of Punch Club for being awesome, we have added a brand new, free expansion that adds 3 hours of new content. Enjoy! About Punch Club Your father was brutally murdered before your eyes. Now you must train hard, eat chicken and punch dudes in the face to earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who ended your father's life. 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 Bear? 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. Fighter management sim with RPG and tycoon elements Find out who killed your father, and maybe learn something about yourself along the way Heavily story-driven, with multiple different narrative branches and game endings to discover Get as deep with stats as you like, and find your own way through extensive skill trees Gorgeous pixel visuals with 80-90s references and nostalgia all over the place

Indie releases from 2016

29 Indie titles launched in 2016 — top 6 by review volume.

Peer Indie titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Position in Indie

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume14.9k Steam reviewsTop 19% in Indie
Positive rating81% positiveGenre average: 87% — this title sits in top 80%
Metacritic73/100Genre average 77 — top 75% of Indie titles
Engagement hours8 h averageTop 68% for session depth among Indie

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Management · 425
  • Pixel Graphics · 402
  • Time Management · 397
  • Boxing · 383
  • Beat 'em up · 371
  • RPG · 362
  • Fighting · 357
  • 2D Fighter · 354
  • Simulation · 349
  • Sports · 345
  • Arcade · 338
  • 2D · 331
  • Story Rich · 330
  • Choices Matter · 330
  • Funny · 318

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (12)

  • English
  • German
  • Russian
  • French
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Portuguese - Brazil
  • Italian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Turkish
  • Czech

Reception Metrics

Steam community

81%Mostly Positive · 14.9k reviews

12.0k positive · 2.8k negative

Metacritic

73/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

7.0/10

Curator recommendations

11.7k

Press Quotes

“Punch Club is pretty awesome” 9/10 – TouchArcade “Utterly Fantastic” 9/10 – Hardcore Gamer “If you are looking for an excellent 16-bit fighter game then look no further than Punch Club as it’s a hell of a lot of fun to play and sink some hours into.” 8/10 – GameGrin

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

8h

short (5–15 hours)

Median

6h

Typical completion time

2-week avg

2h

Current engagement

Achievements

47

Steam unlocks available

Release & Availability

Release dateJan 8, 2016
DeveloperLazy Bear Games
PublishertinyBuild
Base price$1.99 -80%
DLC / Add-ons1 released
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksMetacritic page · Support · [email protected]

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Cloud

Accessibility

  • Captions available

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

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Editions & Packages

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