Games like Pulling No Punches
If Pulling No Punches is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shing!, Cymatically Muffed and Impound Rumble — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cathartic pandemic era catharsis, food based stat customization and grotesque cartoon art style. 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 →About Pulling No Punches: A classic 2D arcade action game animated frame by frame. Survive a fictional pandemic in a city filled with madness and denial.
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Steam players who put hours into Pulling No Punches 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.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat with Pulling No Punches.
Top pick for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Cymatically Muffed
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Don't you hate it when you wake up and some scientist has experimented on you and stolen your headphones? Muffed is a fast-paced shooter where you and your friends can find that guy and make him pay. Or fight everyone you know in split screen PvP for up to 16 players!
Impound Rumble
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Impound Rumble is an upcoming indie platform fighter bursting with personality! Rumble online with rollback or offline in a co-op story mode or duke it out PvP-style. Pop-off and go crazy with Turbo Mode and send friends and foes flying through stages that adapt to the chaos you create!
Jitsu Squad
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Jitsu Squad is a Marvel vs Capcom inspired 4 player co-op TAG TEAM beat ‘em up with epic character transformations and fast paced combat.
Josh Journey: Darkness Totems
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Josh Journey: Darkness Totems is a hand drawn beat’em up game about four brave heroes, that use their skills to defeat the Nightmare Monsters using special combo attacks in a co-op gameplay.
Young Souls
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
We Could Be Heroes
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat and a dark mood with Pulling No Punches.
Ranked #7 for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pulling No Punches.
We Could Be Heroes is a retro style, action packed beat ‘em up in the style of classic 90s brawler arcade titles. Featuring 40 unique stages, destructible environments and brutal deaths. Become a hero and fight bad guys while stopping crimes and rescuing innocent civilians along the way.
Bottom-Up Beatdown: Hostile Takeover
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pulling No Punches fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pulling No Punches.
Bottom-Up Beatdown: Hostile Takeover is an intense 2D beat em' up set in a world dominated by corporations led by monsters! The only way out is up! Begin your freelance kaiju career in campaign mode, or play with friends in the traditional, challenging arcade mode!
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Mother Russia Bleeds
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat and a dark mood with Pulling No Punches.
Reviewers of Pulling No Punches cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.
Streets of Rage 4
WHY THIS
Shares character customization with Pulling No Punches.
Reviewers of Pulling No Punches cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Amongst the best beat’em up series ever created, jammin’ ‘90s beats and over the top street fighting, the iconic series Streets of Rage comes back with a masterful tribute to and revitalization of the classic action fans adore.
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World™: The Game – Complete Edition
WHY THIS
Shares character customization with Pulling No Punches.
Reviewers of Pulling No Punches cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Pulling No Punches.
Rediscover the beloved 2D arcade-style beat 'em up inspired by the iconic comic and movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World!
Demolition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pulling No Punches cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Have enough of the day? Need some escapism? Go blow up some stuff to relieve the stress but don't break anything or real.
Final Night
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Pulling No Punches cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
A nightmarish descent into your worst memories awaits. In "Final Night," you're forced to relive your darkest traumas - now twisted into monstrous, living horrors that hunt you relentlessly. Every shadow hides a piece of your broken past, eager to drag you into the abyss.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Pulling No Punches at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Action with Pulling No Punches.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pulling No Punches.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Pulling No Punches.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Pulling No Punches on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
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 with Pulling No Punches.
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.
Coloring Pixels
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pulling No Punches.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Shares combo based combat with Pulling No Punches.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Jitsu Squad
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Jitsu Squad is a Marvel vs Capcom inspired 4 player co-op TAG TEAM beat ‘em up with epic character transformations and fast paced combat.
Young Souls
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Pulling No Punches.
Young Souls is a gorgeous 2D brawler meets story-rich action RPG. Fight hordes of belligerent goblins, level up with hundreds of weapons and accessories, explore, and journey between worlds, as rebellious twins battle their way to save their foster father.
Frequently asked about Pulling No Punches
- How much does Pulling No Punches cost?
- Pulling No Punches is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Pulling No Punches have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pulling No Punches supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Pulling No Punches?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pulling No Punches are Shing!, Cymatically Muffed, Impound Rumble.
- Who developed Pulling No Punches?
- Pulling No Punches was developed by BrainDead Broccoli and published by BrainDead Broccoli, QUByte Interactive.
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