The goal is to reduce the health of the opponent to zero before the boxer's is reduced, or before twenty rounds are completed, in which a decision is made by the game as to who won the match. The moves for each fighter during the round are randomly drawn from those selected. Once the player has selected these skills, the round is executed automatically by the computer during the next round. Some skills require the player to have a high enough primary attribute to be used, while the effect of others is based on the value of these attributes. Opponents will also have a similar set of skills, which the player can examine between rounds. When the player opts to send the character into a fight, or when the character is forced to fight, the game then allows the player to equip the boxer with a limited number of boxing skills that they have learned to that point including punches, kicks, and blocks these skills can be swapped out between boxing rounds and these kicks and punches crushes enemy stamina and help occupy a limited number of slots, which brings in a smart, simple and strategic layer to Punch Club. The game has several possible endings, depending on choices players make. The game has a quest system, but many quests are optional.
Thus, the player must determine how to balance the character's activities with the limited in-game time to maintain sufficiently high boxing attributes as to advance up in the boxing ranks. Further, many activities require in-game money, which the player earns through performing work or by winning boxing matches.
The boxer will gain friends or other associates over the course of the game which will help also lead the character towards resolving the mystery of his father's murder, perform new activities to help raise the primary attributes, or aid in boosting the lesser attributes. These lesser attributes can be regained through eating, sleeping, and other events, though the main boxing attributes will slowly degrade with game time. However, performing these activities will wear away at other attributes, including hunger, alertness, and happiness, and if these attributes are too low, some activities may not be available. These attributes start at one but can be increased by performing various activities, such as exercising or going to work. The boxer character has three primary attributes that contribute towards his skill in boxing and how other boxers are compared: strength, agility, and stamina. Time progresses when the player is involved in any activity, including moving between these locations. The player manages the boxer around the clock through various locations in a city, including his home, the boxing gym, stores, and his work place. The boxer aims to continue his training and become the best boxer at a local league, while following clues to lead him to who killed his father. The player controls an unnamed boxer whose father, who helped to train him, was murdered. A Nintendo Switch version was released on May 24, 2018. Ports for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released on March 31, 2017. A Nintendo 3DS port of the game was announced in a September 2016 Nintendo Direct for release in January 2017 after some delays. The game was released in January 2016 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, iOS, and Android, following a Twitch Plays Pokémon-style event on Twitch. The game was developed as a humorous take on action films of the 1980s and 1990s.
In the game, the player manages an upcoming boxer in training and preparation for a series of boxing matches at a local club, while searching for clues of who killed their father.
It's not all just pumping iron, you know.Punch Club (originally titled VHS Story) is a sporting management simulation developed by Lazy Bear Games and published by tinyBuild. You'll be juggling friendships, love life, work, recreational time, relationships, and possible stardom, all alongside your gym time and fighting aligators. Do you have stripes, or flippers?Īnd every decision will matter, especially in your social life. 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. 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.Īlong the way you'll want to focus your talents. Punch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines. 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. Your father was brutally murdered before your eyes.
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