Games like Punch Club 2: Fast Forward
If Punch Club 2: Fast Forward is your kind of game, the closest matches are Punch to Glory, Boundless AI Fantasy and Safeguard Saga — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its amazing animations and art, polished flash game feel and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Punch Club 2: Fast Forward is a retro cyberpunk fighter management simulator developed by Lazy Bear Games and published by tinyBuild. The game combines resource management, stat-building, and tactical combat in a challenging and grind-heavy experience. Players mentor a fighter, choosing combat styles and managing their training routine to guide them toward championship. The game released in 2023 at a price of 4.99 USD and is verified to run on Steam Deck. Players describe the experience as nostalgic and retro, with reviewers highlighting its humor and references to other games and movies alongside a polished flash game feel. According to Steam reviews, the game holds an 80% positive rating from over 1,100 reviews.
About Punch Club 2: Fast Forward: Train, fight, and rise to the top in this knockout sequel to the smashing fighter management simulator! Mentor your fighter and guide him to become the ultimate champion: choose from different combat styles, control his routine, and watch him kick some butt like a proud sensei!
Players who liked Punch Club 2: Fast Forward also play
Steam players who put hours into Punch Club 2: Fast Forward also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Punch to Glory
WHY THIS
Top pick for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Start your journey as a boxer from the ground up, fighting your way to glory. Develop your character, collect fight cards, and face the challenges life throws your way. Train hard, manage stress, and give everything you've got to turn your championship dreams into reality.
Boundless AI Fantasy
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Roleplay with AI-driven characters, command turn‑based tactical battles on an isometric grid, create expansive campaigns, customize worlds, characters, and spells, and experience dynamic narratives shaped by your choices.
Safeguard Saga
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
With no martial arts skills, you inherit an escort guild and the late master's daughter. Now, as the new leader, you must recruit skilled escorts, protect precious shipments, settle Jianghu disputes, and fend off ruthless pirates. Build your guild into the most renowned in the land.
Caves of Lore
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Ranked #4 for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
I created Caves of Lore because of my deep love for RPGs. This project took me 6 years to make and I learned a lot about coding, art, and storytelling. If you reach the end then be sure to let me know! Caves has deep combat, classic-styled pixel art, and (of course) LORE! 📖
Treachery in Beatdown City
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Ranked #5 for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Explore an ANGRY city, meet the WORST people, and beat 'em up with STYLE! Pick your fighter, FREEZE TIME, build custom combos, and knock out your enemies, all to save the president.
Esports History
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Ranked #6 for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Sports and Strategy with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Esports History is an RPG sim where you start as a regular guy, and work your way up to the very top of esports. Defeat bosses in tournaments, make a name for yourself within the esports community, and become a real pro!
Swords and Sandals Immortals
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Ranked #7 for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Gladiator! Grab your sword, equip your sandals and take on the world in multiplayer Swords and Sandals! Brutal turn-based combat where gladiators can lose limbs, wield guitars and yell so loudly enemy heads will fall off. This is the most fun you'll ever have in the arena!
Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Ranked #8 for Punch Club 2: Fast Forward fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Punch Club 2: Fast Forward
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Dread Delusion
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Dread Delusion is an open world RPG brimming with strange places and dark perils. Carve your own path through the flying continents of a shattered land. Discover curious towns, unearth occult secrets, master powerful magic - and change the world through your choices.
Elysium
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Wake up on a paradise-like abandoned island with your friends. Explore the lands of an ancient civilization and uncover the mysteries behind their collapse as you build, craft, and tame corrupted machines. Most importantly, survive the unwelcome lands of Elysium!
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and RPG with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Become Ichiban Kasuga, a low-ranking yakuza grunt left on the brink of death by the man he trusted most. Take up your legendary bat and get ready to crack some underworld skulls in dynamic RPG combat set against the backdrop of modern-day Japan.
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Imagine a place of wonder, where magick and technology coexist in an uneasy balance, and an adventurer might just as easily wield a flintlock pistol as a flaming sword. Welcome to the land of Arcanum.
Hearth & Shadow
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Hearth & Shadow - is a card-based strategy game where you develop your settlement and defend it from monster invasions. Try different combinations, unlock new buildings and outposts, or upgrade them, and monitor your settlement's and defenses to defeat the monsters and save your human settlement!
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Lead the members of Expedition 33 on their quest to destroy the Paintress so that she can never paint death again. Explore a world of wonders inspired by Belle Époque France and battle unique enemies in this turn-based RPG with real-time mechanics.
Kenshi
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story. Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Train your men up from puny victims to master warriors.
Sea of Stars
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Reviewers of Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Punch Club 2: Fast Forward at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The Test: Final Revelation
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Punch Club 2: Fast Forward on Steam right now. Shares Simulation and RPG with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
The third chapter in The Test Trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover who you really are as a person. The Final Revelation is upon us... but are you sure you TRULY want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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More from Lazy Bear Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Lazy Bear Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Graveyard Keeper
WHY THIS
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Punch Club 2: Fast Forward. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.
Punch Club
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Punch Club 2: Fast Forward. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
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.
Swag and Sorcery
WHY THIS
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Punch Club 2: Fast Forward. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Grind for resources, manage your own fantasy village, create and equip your heroes and send them to collect swag in Swag and Sorcery - a new streamlined RPG from the creators of Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper.
Bloomtown: A Different Story
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Punch Club 2: Fast Forward. Shares Indie and Adventure with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Bloomtown: A Different Story is a narrative JRPG mixing turn-based combat, monster taming and social RPG set in a seemingly pleasant 1960s Americana world. Join Emily and her group of friends to save their cozy town from the demonic creatures that live in the hearts of its residents!
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story
WHY THIS
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Punch Club 2: Fast Forward. Shares Simulation and RPG with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story is a crafting RPG set in the whimsical world of Bandle City. After a party goes wrong, the portals that connect your home collapse and throw everything into chaos! Using your knitting magic and backpack house, restore the portals to reunite Bandle City.
Graveyard Keeper 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Lazy Bear Games, the studio behind Punch Club 2: Fast Forward. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
The most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim is back! Restore The Town, manage the graveyard, automate production, lead your undead army into battle and turn the zombie problem into a thriving business! Graveyard Keeper 2 is the grotesque sequel that's deeper than six feet, and more unhinged than ever!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Caves of Lore
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
I created Caves of Lore because of my deep love for RPGs. This project took me 6 years to make and I learned a lot about coding, art, and storytelling. If you reach the end then be sure to let me know! Caves has deep combat, classic-styled pixel art, and (of course) LORE! 📖
Treachery in Beatdown City
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a challenging mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Explore an ANGRY city, meet the WORST people, and beat 'em up with STYLE! Pick your fighter, FREEZE TIME, build custom combos, and knock out your enemies, all to save the president.
Nowhere Prophet
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Punch Club 2: Fast Forward.
Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.
Frequently asked about Punch Club 2: Fast Forward
- Is Punch Club 2: Fast Forward verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Punch Club 2: Fast Forward is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Punch Club 2: Fast Forward cost?
- Punch Club 2: Fast Forward is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Punch Club 2: Fast Forward?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Punch Club 2: Fast Forward are Punch to Glory, Boundless AI Fantasy, Safeguard Saga.
- Who developed Punch Club 2: Fast Forward?
- Punch Club 2: Fast Forward was developed by Lazy Bear Games and published by tinyBuild.
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