The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing

The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing

Fair · Action · 2019

Steam Deck Unsupported

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Reviews
95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Price
$9.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
95%
4,075 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019
Length + $/hr
No data
no length in our data yet

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better. Windows only.

The Thrill of the Fight is a room-scale only VR boxing game focused on authenticity. Face off in the virtual ring where you'll jab, dodge, and sweat your way to the top of the boxing world. Grab your gloves, step through the ropes, and become a champion.
Description from the Steam store page.

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

What we assumed
  • How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Action game (about 6 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
Raising the score
Reviews95% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Holding it back
Value, est. length~$1.67/hr
Estimated: no length in our data yet
Length unknownNo verified $/hr
No length in our data yet, so the biggest driver can't be verified. A heavy dock until it is
For context
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds9 of 427 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

September 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 48 in the 10 years tracked, about 9 weeks apart.

On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Forza Horizon 5 ($59.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats RUMBLE ($24.99, scores 42).

9 of the 427 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,814 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 867 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 1,931 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 49 percent of everything written about it.

Players

7 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 20:48 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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The Thrill of the Fight - VR Boxing scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 6 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/494150/the-thrill-of-the-fight-vr-boxing
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHalfbrick Studios Pty Ltd
PublisherHalfbrick Studios Pty Ltd
GenreAction
Released2019