Punch Club 12+

I just want to start by saying do not railroad your player into your DLC chapter, especially in a game where stat and time management are key, it undermines the design, and it’s annoying, if I was ready to start dark fist, I would start it. If I’m trying to go to bed and get railroaded into a 4/8/8 fight while stuck as a 1/8/4, that’s not on me, that’s on your design choices.

This is a game about time/stat management, min/maxing is needed, and it feels like the balance is on a house of cards. It can be beaten, but the hurdles you go over to do it make it frustrating, and not fun. It’s too easy to get into a spiral of failure and lose days worth of training through stat degradation because you need money to catch up. The game offers alternative means to making money through ‘underground fights’ but they have a high risk/reward scheme that if you lose you suffer a penalty, which feeds back into you needing the most efficient build possible.

The game has many little issues, and it’s unlikely they will be fixed or adjusted in anyway. I want to make clear it’s not one small issue, but many small issues that build up into an impeding force. The game is beatable, but it’s questionable if it’s worth the frustration put into it.

I love this game. Like a ton. But each time I try jumping back into it. I’m almost always met with glitches or just my save file just completely erased. This isn’t uncommon for tinybuild games now a days. Especially with LazyBear Studios stating they are dropping DLC support for Graveyard Keeper on the Nintendo Switch. So please don’t waste your money on this. If you are wanting to play this game. I suggest maybe playing it on a modded 3DS or get it really cheap or from someone who sings Sea shanties on PC. I hope this publisher tries to make games like this again (looking at the sequel coming out) but I don’t see myself supporting a publisher that is just falling flat in terms of support. And don’t even get me started on their Hello Neighbor games. Like please actually hire developers that can make quality games other than jumping at each cool idea you think is neat. Like on god, you guys have such cool games. I just don’t want to pay for them knowing i’ll get stuck on a loading screen, the map not opening, or me not even closing the game but going to the main menu just to try going back to see my game just gone. I’ve been playing your guy’s games since No Time To Explain. I really hope you actually read this and maybe understand the reason why the frustrations other than brushing this off.