Punch Club

The game is a Rocky pastiche (really, it revels in it) that also borrows bits of pieces from other works of the 80s and 90s. The story is very tongue in cheek and lacks depth. The fighting dynamics of the game are cool to watch and you'll have plenty of control to shape your fighter in several possible directions. Picking an upgrade path for your fighter, watching him fight and adjust the course when he fails is really the heart of the game. However, the grinding in this game is not cool. You'll get treated to "Rocky: The lean years" for about 3/4 of the game and you'll have to balance working a job, eating, resting, training your stats and honing your fighting skills. You'll get tired, you'll get hungry, your stats will decrease each day so you'll have to prop them back up with exercise on various equipment daily and at various parts of the game, your perks tree progression will slow down to a grind as you'll get little or no progression points in a lot of fights. Seriously, they could have skimmed on the grinding, made the game 50% shorter and it would have been a lot more enjoyable. Beyond that, the game suffers from a couple of bugs (in the Linux build anyways). Nothing show-stopping, but the game did crash occasionally. Overall, I think the core of the game (ie, actual fighting with skill progression) shines and it is worth playing for a bit to experience the fun part, but finishing it should be considered optional. I've finished it and can tell you that the story payout is not that great and the grind is long, so don't feel bad about dropping it 50% of the way through once you're enjoyed what this game is about. You won't miss much.

I want to give my Opinion in a few sentences. There are better games in the Management Gerne. The other subjects, like story, details in graphic or music of the game are also "not really good" and got me bored after 1 hour. Every day the same thing, wake up, eat something, go work or train your skills, go sleep. There was a moment i thought about what i did the last 2 hours and wanted my time back. Prison Architect is the perfect example for me how a Management Game should be. At the End, this is just my opinion, read other reviews if you think you could like this Game. But be warned, its not a fighter game, the fights are automatic and you cant react while your fighting. And im german, there could be logical Errors in my text. ;-)

Simple game but perfect gameplay. I would suggest this game for growned up guys. Did you watch Rocky? You start with no money and poor fighting skills. You start as a street fighter. You have to train to become the best fighter and win the title. It is possible to choose 3 styles of fight. Strength, Agility or Stamina. You can also mix those styles. I can't spoil, but there is lot of humor in some points of the story. Revivals too! Prepare for the ring. Can you defeat your opponent?

It's an okay time management game with a lot of old call backs to classic macho movies and general 70's to 90's references. The game is fun, in the start, where you balance a personal life, while trying to get ahead in the games different leagues and stories. However it totally looses all of this charm and activity, in the later half. When you leave this starting city and have to just grind, grind, grind. You are essentially locked in a gym forever, with food and the same opponent that you have to grind against until you win it. This part of the game is such bull crap that I really wonder why the heck they added it. Maybe to get a handful of extra references into the game? I would have much preferred if I had some choice in when this suck fest part of the game started, or that I could somehow leave it, I don't care. It essentially feels like the game is over now because I can't the assed to play it for days just doing the same grind with no real way to play the games advantages to somehow speed up the process. So in short, watch the game on youtube, avoid otherwise. If it's 3$ on sale, the first half of the game is okay to get through, and in case you read this before getting to this other stage of the game. Just don't talk to the Don after getting your pro card. That triggers the advancement to the next stage, Make sure you have used up all your money, done all the possible quests and gotten so incredibly sick of the starting city that you want to downgrade to a shittier version of the game to try and finish it.

The version on GOG here as of today is 1.31 which is THE LATEST AVAILABLE. Including Czech localization as NOT listed on GOG store page for whatever incompetent reasons. This game deserves so much better rating. All the downvotes are majorly because of publisher boycotting updates on GOG as an "anti-piracy" effort like if this was some kind of solution that doesn't do even more harm. Actually most games are plagued by delayed updates on GOG but this one in particular got review bombed for it. GOG's ignorance towards transparency when it comes to visibility of the release version even more harms the industry but who am I to tell "employees" how to do their work competently. The game is retro-inspired point-n-click sims management with quite decent parodic story from the 80's 90's that is further developed in even better sequel. This is one of those artistic gems that are worth every bit of the invested money and time.