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Punch A Bunch
Give it 2 hours
Gets good by 2h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 5h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 92% of owners
Steam reviews 75% positive of 1,003
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (37%); after 5h it's 1 in 6 (17%).
- Fully opens up by hour 5.
- 92% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,030 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 4.7h for positive, 1.7h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (91.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (12)
- Rookie Complete basic training. 100%
- Failure Is A Teacher Lose against any opponent. 92%
- Amateur Win the Amateur Series championship. 70%
- Intermediate Win the Intermediate Series championship. 32%
- Bookworm Read every single page of The Boxer's Field Manual. 19%
- Surprise! Reveal the final boss in the Pro Series championship. 17%
- Fully Loaded Equip an item in every single equipment slot. 16%
- Champion Win the Pro Series championship. 16%
- Rookie No Longer Unlock every single star in the Amateur Series. 8.7%
- Up And Coming Unlock every single star in the Intermediate Series. 5.2%
- Unstoppable Unlock every single star in the Pro Series. 3.5%
- Ivory Master Unlock every single star. 3.4%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.