Punch Club
Fair · RPG · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offFair
- Cost per hourS
- $0.97/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 15,864
- Critics
- 73 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 13% RPG
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.3h
- To 100%
- 24.1h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 47
Price and sales
- Sales
- 95 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 January 2022
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 41 now
- Cheaper than
- 38% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 76% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
89% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 95 times in the 11 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 62 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 76 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Punch Club 2: Fast Forward ($19.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats Mind Scanners ($16.99, scores 34).
More about Punch Club
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 4 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 1,026 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
10.3 hours to finish it, 24 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I bought this game sometime in 2017, and have tried thereabouts 6 times to get into it, and it's just very punishing for no real reason with it's bizarre gameplay design On one hand, you are supposed to make the most out of your time, on the other, weirdly lavish animations waste your time while the gameplay clock is ticking (this is mostly about rest/entertainment and whatnot, the bubbles are about 2 ticks behind...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I played this game some time ago and the i stop right before the end and i dont remember why. Now i installed the game again and again got all the way to the end and game softlocked. I cant travel on map or interact with some NPCs. Game is entertaining but gets repetitive quickly after few hours. But the game is just few hours long so as it got repetitive i thought i am about to finish it and then i broke right...
I'd only get it on sale. Theres a couple of things that are better in this in comparison to Punch Club 2 but those are overshadowed by other annoying mechanics. The Decay mechanic is genuinely frustrating to deal with because training doesn't prevent it which doesn't make sense Decay should only happen if you don't train. You're better off just getting Punch Club 2 instead its the more fleshed out and actually...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Toaster, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
Cite this score
Punch Club scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/394310/punch-clubReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.