[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"similar-games-punch-club":3,"game-punch-club":5},{"similarGames":4},[],{"game":6,"hasUserReviewed":22},{"id":7,"name":8,"summary":9,"cover_image":10,"header_image":11,"trailer_url":12,"release_date":13,"avg_score":14,"igdb_id":15,"slug":16,"steam_app_id":17,"companies":18,"genres":27,"platforms":34,"reviews":39,"coverImage":10,"headerImage":11,"trailerUrl":12,"releaseDate":13,"criticReviewCount":145,"userReviewCount":146,"previewCount":146,"publishers":147,"developers":148,"userReviews":149,"hasUserReviewed":22,"steamAppId":17},83109,"Punch Club","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.\n\nPunch Club is a boxing tycoon management game with multiple branching story lines. 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.\n\nAlong the way you'll want to focus your talents. Will you take the Way of the Tiger, the Way of the Turtle, or the Way of the [other one?]? Your strength, accuracy and agility all depends on whichever Way enlightens your path. Do you have stripes, or flippers?\n\nAnd every decision will matter, especially in your social life. You'll be juggling friendships, love life, work, recreational time, relationships, and possible stardom, all alongside your gym time and fighting aligators. It's not all just pumping iron, you know.","83109\u002Fpunch-club-cover.jpg","83109\u002Fpunch-club-header.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002F345g7VNvnOo","2016-01-08",66.57,15931,"punch-club",394310,[19,24],{"company":20,"developed":22,"published":23},{"name":21},"tinyBuild",false,true,{"company":25,"developed":23,"published":22},{"name":26},"Lazy Bear Games",[28,29,30,31,32,33],"Fighting","Role-playing (RPG)","Simulator","Sport","Strategy","Indie",[35,36,37,38],"PC (Microsoft Windows)","PlayStation 4","Xbox One","Nintendo Switch",[40,56,71,86,101,115,130],{"id":41,"author":42,"outlet":45,"summary":51,"review_url":52,"review_date":53,"original_score":54,"normalized_score":55},1838,{"id":43,"name":44},132,"Mark Richard",{"id":46,"logo":47,"name":48,"website_url":49,"score_format":50},1,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTechRaptor%20Logo.png","TechRaptor","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net","10","A promising start leads to a dismal end. Punch Club’s quality dips shockingly fast and leaves a bitter taste upon completion.","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net\u002Fgaming\u002Freviews\u002Fpunch-club-review-aint-gonna-be-no-rematch","2016-01-29","5",50,{"id":57,"author":58,"outlet":61,"summary":66,"review_url":67,"review_date":68,"original_score":69,"normalized_score":70},73420,{"id":59,"name":60},4769,"Mitch Dyer",{"id":62,"logo":63,"name":64,"website_url":65,"score_format":50},69,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FIGN-logo.jpg","IGN","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002F","Part Persona, part The Sims, and part Fight Club, Punch Club is deceptively deep, with a rewarding life simulation and RPG systems. It’s bursting with personality, (though regrettably very little of that is its own) reliant on bygone eras and pop-culture references to establish its lighthearted and fun tone. Punch Club is tedious at times, thanks to an unfortunate level-down systems that artificially extend the road to the championship with grinding repetition, but its upgrades, stat growth, and more compensate with satisfying depth.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002Farticles\u002F2016\u002F01\u002F15\u002Fpunch-club-review","2016-01-15","6.5",65,{"id":72,"author":73,"outlet":76,"summary":81,"review_url":82,"review_date":83,"original_score":84,"normalized_score":85},64167,{"id":74,"name":75},2829,"Graham Stephen",{"id":77,"logo":78,"name":79,"website_url":80,"score_format":50},27,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGameSpew-Logo.jpg","GameSpew","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamespew.com","After playing for a good few hours, the stat grind will slowly wear you down and you’ll eventually feel like hitting punching bags and doing push-ups in your garage is a little pointless. Imagine if Rocky IV’s hilariously terrible training montage was stretched out for the entire duration of the film and you have the general experience of playing Punch Club. It’s cute for the first two hours, but the grind will wear you out and these moments don’t really carry the same weight as they would have in the film. It’s a fun and addictive introduction to what could have been a really neat management simulator if the momentum of those early grinds had been built upon and expanded rather than simply repeated ad nauseam. Initially, though, Punch Club is a charming and cute look at the American underdog story that has been done to death so many times in Hollywood. It’s just a shame that it outstays its welcome so early on.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamespew.com\u002F2016\u002F01\u002Fpunch-club-review\u002F","2016-01-22","6\u002F10",60,{"id":87,"author":88,"outlet":91,"summary":97,"review_url":98,"review_date":68,"original_score":99,"normalized_score":100},90324,{"id":89,"name":90},7696,"Sarah Marchant",{"id":92,"logo":93,"name":94,"website_url":95,"score_format":96},130,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGamingTrend-Logo.jpg","GamingTrend","https:\u002F\u002Fgamingtrend.com","100","Punch Club is a game with a lot of personality. From its realistic gameplay to the little surprises it has tucked away, there’s something special about it that will have you hooked. In spite of the moments that feel like a lot of grinding, it’s an enjoyable title.","https:\u002F\u002Fgamingtrend.com\u002Freviews\u002Fpunch-club-review\u002F","85",85,{"id":102,"author":103,"outlet":106,"summary":111,"review_url":112,"review_date":113,"original_score":114,"normalized_score":85},138723,{"id":104,"name":105},11606,"SHADOWFORKS",{"id":107,"logo":108,"name":109,"website_url":110,"score_format":50},146,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002Fkeengamer-logo.png","KeenGamer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.keengamer.com\u002F","Punch Club is the perfect juxtaposition of boxing movies like Rocky, and martial arts movies like Ip Man. You take care of your character, give him tasks, train him and fight through the main storyline. So would you like to become another Rocky? It's your chance now!","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.keengamer.com\u002Farticles\u002Freviews\u002Fpunch-club-review\u002F","2016-01-14","6",{"id":116,"author":117,"outlet":120,"summary":125,"review_url":126,"review_date":127,"original_score":128,"normalized_score":129},99708,{"id":118,"name":119},8921,"A.J. Maciejewski",{"id":121,"logo":122,"name":123,"website_url":124,"score_format":50},137,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FVideo-Chums.jpg","Video Chums","https:\u002F\u002Fvideochums.com\u002F","When you look at a game called Punch Club, it's easy to assume that it's going to be some sort of fighter. However, it's actually a training simulator and an addictive one at that so drink a raw egg and get ready to enter the ring.","https:\u002F\u002Fvideochums.com\u002Freview\u002Fpunch-club","2017-01-24","6.6",66,{"id":131,"author":132,"outlet":135,"summary":140,"review_url":141,"review_date":142,"original_score":143,"normalized_score":144},2238358,{"id":133,"name":134},17867,"Peter Lopez",{"id":136,"logo":137,"name":138,"website_url":139,"score_format":50},158,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FPurenintendo.jpeg","Pure Nintendo","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com","Punch Club is a new fighting management sim with RPG and tycoon elements from Lazy Bear Games. It's full of fast paced action and surprises you won't expect. T","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com\u002Freview-punch-club-3ds-eshop\u002F","2017-01-25","8",80,7,0,[21],[26],[]]