Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 11:04 pm
Punch Club – Sports Game Review
Punch Club is a Sports/Strategy game from TINYBUILD LLC, first launched in 13th January 2016.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 26+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Punch Club Stand Out
"A fun, addictive, and challenging fighting simulation RPG" 9/10 – AppAdvice
"Must be experienced by gamers far and wide" 9/10 – HardcoreGamer
"A rich and rewarding fight sim that gives you plenty to do, and makes sure you have fun while you're doing it" 9/10 – PocketGamer
"Punch Club is pretty awesome" 9/10 – TouchArcade
About Punch Club:
Your father was brutally murdered before your eyes. Now you must train hard, eat chicken and punch dudes in the face to earn your place in the Punch Club ranks, and discover who ended your father's life.
Punch 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.
Along 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?
And 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.
- Boxing management sim with RPG and tycoon elements
- Find out who killed your father, and maybe learn something about yourself along the way
- Heavily story-driven, with multiple different narrative branches and game endings to discover
- Get as deep with stats as you like, and find your own way through extensive skill trees
- Gorgeous pixel visuals with 80-90s references and nostalgia all over the place
- Now with cross-platform saves!
- Featuring "The Dark Fist" storyline, a free content update with 3 hours of new content!
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Punch Club is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th September 2024
Recent improvements include:
- Fixed the save file corruption issue, players will now be able to save the game as intended
Download & Availability
Punch Club is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Took over 5 years but you can finally play the game in multiple sittings and not have to grind it out in one sesh overall amazing game im replaying this one then going to buy second one.
Omg folks, they did it, those beautiful devs did it. WE CAN FINALLY SAVE ON iOS! It didnt work initially for us, but when we uninstalled and reinstalled the game, it worked! We can finally save! FINALLY.
We were about at the place where you like shoot movies and stuff like that then we went to a different place and the house disappeared. The house where live in the game just disappeared so we went to another house and that disappeared too. We it needs just a little bit of work. Also, you cant click on the houses either. That disappeared theyre completely gone.
We couldnt find it in the newest version anymore! We have to sync our progress with our pc.
Once you get past the rookie league it becomes virtually impossible to do anything more. You cant train your character fast enough to offset what he loses so you dont progress. So youre stuck in an endless loop of not winning.
We love this game we used to play it all the time we redownloaded it and now every time we try and save it just makes us restart.
Turn off iCloud saving on your iPhone and you can save your game! Anyway great game and very funny.
Ok so we found away to save the game!! Go in your settings and turn off your iCloud Drive, we love this game a lot wish the developers would do more for it.
Its a good game but our game never saves.
This is the one the best music played you might have to grind a little bit but thats the fun part.
We love this game, despite it having a lot of bugs and frequent issues, have not been able to save our game and they said they were not sure then they would fix the save function. We love the game though, and admire the developers honesty. We were curious when punch club 2 will be released? The dev last told us in 2023 but didnt say when, looking forward to that! XD.
We absolutely love this game and always have but trying to replay it we see there is a major issue with saving progress. It just wont save no matter what you do. This makes us very sad as this is one of our all time favorite games. Ive seen Im not the only one dealing with the problem either. PLEASE FIX :((( -A big fan.
The game is good but it never saves our progress wich made us really mad.
We have play a ton of mobile games but this game is the most underrated game we have ever played we have no idea why this doesnt have more plays.
Its really well done, nothing else like it. Much nostalgia.
Please lazy bear games an tiny build studios make a save button for iOS there is not one we spent so many hours grinding just to have to start over we really like the game but please add a save button.
Ive played this years ago, we cant remember where. When this came out for iOS, we were excited! But we cannot save our game. Every time we play it, we have to start over. And thats a lot of time being out in just to lose it all the next time we open the app. Would appreciate if the game would let us save our progress. Thanks.
This game is awesome but when we play and end up trying to exit the game and save it wont work so when we go to play the saved game its not there and we have to make a new one. Ive tried deleting the game and redownloading it but we dont know what else to try so can you help us or fix this bug.
Game hasnt save we grinder two times.
Great game but the games dont save so you have to start over every time you close the app. Its extremely frustrating. Please patch this.
Its great but the only problem is the saves wont work.
We love this game tbh, although the save and exit option does not save our progress at all whatsoever, the game itself is amazing and we love it a lot, maybe can make the energy consumption and hunger a tiny bit more lastable but overall the game is great and the save and exit button does need to get fixed.
Hey, its a great game. We beat it multiple times in the past. But of recent, the game has not been saving and if we close the app our save gets deleted. We saw a forum on Reddit and people were having the same problem as us. We doubt that the developers will fix it as it has gone 3 years un-updated, but we have high hopes.
We were playing having loads of fun then we used the brief case and the game froze so we click save and exit then our progress just disappear.
This game is great. We mean that wholeheartedly. Get it and it will both entertain you and motivate you yourself to work out along with your character. ;-) But.. . They need to fix THE BUG where you cant save your progress. Otherwise its 10-10.
Everytime we try to save the game so we can come back to it because obviously you cant play the whole thing in one sitting it doesnt save this is a major problem and we will need our money returned if it wont save.
Punch club has always been our favorite game on the Apple store we remember buying it when it first came out and always coming back to it when ever Im bored but recently with the iOS 15 update we discovered that theres a game break glitch that doesnt allow us to save any progress we know its unlikely that the developers will come back to fix this glitch but please do soo.
We got really far into the game but we tried to save and exit and it didnt save anyone know how to fix or fix UR DAM GAME.
Great game, but please fix fighting. Id have 17 strength, 8 stamina, and 21 agility. Then a robber with 3 strength, 1 stamina, and 1 agility would defeat us. No matter how much Id spam him. This mainly happens because hunger and energy go down way too quickly. When he sleeps he gets hungry, then he goes to the store to buy food, then hes low on cash and cant afford food and is too tired to work. So then he has nothing.
Hi tiny build! We really liked this game and managed to beat this game (on easy mode). But there is one problem. When we play in normal mode, please give more chances to get the professional card (and if you beat it, you fly to Russia to beat Ivangeif) and also, Roy just dies randomly please, just fix it to either just make him stay alive or make it more dramatic.
We used to watch our favorite youtuber ssundee play this and got inspired to play too, although now when we do play this game or start a new account, it tends not to save the progress for some reason, im not sure if you developers even read these or do work on Punch Club anymore but if you are please fix this small fix, the game itself to us personally is a 10/10, options to pick the difficulty, we like the retro type of graphics, great story, all thats really missing is just that small bug fix (June 5, 2024).
This is a good game but whenever we play punch club it always resets us and its so frustrating so if you guys see this review can you please try to fix this but otherwise without the glitch it would be a great game and we would rate it 5 stars so if you guys do fix it we will change to 5 stars.
Love the game, but its really hard to get into it when you can never save and always have to restart.
We wanted to play the game on mobile but the saves are broken and dont work so we bought it on the PlayStation because we really wanted to play it. Though some people only game on mobile so we feel sorry for them.
Such a great game, except we keep playing for 3-4 hours then forget to save and rage delete the app. Then end up having to restart completely.
We used to love this game, still do. Our only problem is it will not save your game. Hours go by and after clicking save and exit, your progress is gone. Please fix this.
Thats our only issue, after a day of playing, we go back the next day or two days later, and Im back to the very beginning, and we have to start all over again.
Despite the gameplay being everything we remembered, for some reason the save files arent functioning as they should. Preventing players from returning to their progress. Making the game nearly impossible to progress far. Please fix so we can enjoy the game we know and love.
Downloaded this game again as we played in the past and we literally played for 3-4 hours straight hit save and exit and we try to play again and our save is gone . Frustrating.
Every time we tried to save our game it wouldnt work as well as the freezing that forces an exit.
Ok already a lot of people gave their opinions on this game and we personally love it, but the saving system is so wonky and screwy that its not worth it. We spent an entire day with multiple different saves thinking we did something wrong until we found out online that its a common issue, we wish we didnt buy the game if we knew that issue but we still have it.
The game itself is amazing, but it wont save your progress.
Our game wont save every time we leave we gotta start all the way over and its somewhat annoying.
We LOVE THIS GAME AND THE GAME PLAY we LITERALLT CANNOT SAVE MY PROGRESS we HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING YET EVERYTIME we CLOSE OUTTA THE APP EVERYTHING IS GONE we GRINDED SO LONG LAST NIGHT AND NOTHING SAVED OKEASE HELP AND FIX THIS BUG.
But it lost our save data so 3 stars.
Great game but it doesnt save no more ;(.
Everytime we play the game and exit all of our progress is erased so we have to restart all over again and the hunger and energy system in the game needs to be improved on. But other then that its a good game, would up it to five stars if they fix it.
This was one of our favorite games as a kid, and we were shocked to even still see it on the App Store, after re-downloading the game and playing for about 2 hours we saved our progress and when we came back nothing was there.
This is a really good game and we enjoy playing it but after a break we decided to come back to it. We soon discovered that we couldnt save the game making it practically unplayable. It happened after iOS 15.
Its a very fun and addicting game but you cant save anything.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.38
- Size: 355.20 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: TINYBUILD LLC
Last updated: 5th September 2024 | Genre: Sports, Strategy | Developer: TINYBUILD LLC