Pulling No Punches
Worth it · Action · 2022
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $4.98.
- Length
- 1.8h
- Value
- $5.55/hr
- Reviews
- 95% of 668 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.98 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A classic 2D arcade action game animated frame by frame. Survive a fictional pandemic in a city filled with madness and denial.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, At least 1GB Video Memory, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 36 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $4.98 BANGER line 17 times.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile ($9.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Shank 2 ($9.99, scores 63).
More about Pulling No Punches
Steam's global achievement data puts 38 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 323 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 279 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
92% start to 38% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
Man, with such an art style paired with a really simple game difficulty that doesn't give me a hard time, what more can I say? 爽玩！
2 more reviews
A Beat'em up game with very Juicy sfx. Seriously Precious Animations as the creators say "handmade". There is some real nice comedy in this COVID 19 settings. A request to the creators. Please update the game with internal assets also converted in other languages. So, we can understand what the banners in the game says. And, steam points shop items could be very interesting. Introduce them.
Fun beat em up. It's sorta like the Scott Pilgrim game but that was way better. Good story, levels, collectibles and achievements. Using weapons was a true highlight, (wish the game focused on that aspect more). Could probably 100% everything fairly easily. Negatives: I didn't like the music at all, some of the sound effects hitting enemies are terrible, a few of the enemies can interrupt your attacks, can't turn...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Pulling No Punches scores 73/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1425760/pulling-no-punchesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.