When things start to show a genuine threat of possibly picking up the pace, that’s stopped in its tracks by having to return home to eat or sleep, then finding you’ve not actually got the money to purchase any more food. Make sure you’re prepared, though, or you’ll get eaten up. You’ll also need to go to work to generate the money to buy food, enter competitions and to get into the gym, but the great game-slower comes in the fact that your energy depletes while at work, and you sometimes won’t be able to complete work to the point where you get paid due to your energy meter running out.
There are a lot of sim elements at play here – you’ll mainly be carrying out tasks to boost your ring performance, like heading to the gym, for example, but you’ll also have to stay on top of your character’s happiness, hunger and tiredness. This fighter management sim has you control a novice fighter with aspirations of becoming king of the brawling scene. With a name like this, Punch Club has got to be an all-guns-blazing beat-em-up, right? Actually, it’s not – it’s quite a way away from that.
Go from dingy gyms to bright lights in this rags-to-riches sim.
