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Bolt'N'Punch

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92%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
92% User Score Based on 59 reviews

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About Bolt'N'Punch

Bolt'N'Punch is a single player hack and slash game with a science fiction theme. It was developed by ComeBack Game and was released on March 1, 2024. It received very positive reviews from players.

Food for Thought strives to deliver the best food products to the common people, but when its robot workers turn against Lyft, the last human in the factory, she has to step up and punch some steel. Uncover the truth behind this attack, find your boss for answers, and put an end to this with style and power. Unleash powerful blows to enemies, use them as a weapon and utilize the environment to y…

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92%Audience ScoreBased on 59 reviews
gameplay6 positive mentions
story3 negative mentions
  • Fun, action-packed gameplay with smooth melee combat and special moves.
  • Visually appealing graphics with a bright, futuristic design and charming enemy characters.
  • Short and accessible experience, great as a free game or a quick time-killer.
  • Performance issues including lag and low framerate even on good PCs, impacting playability.
  • Voice acting is inconsistent and sometimes hard to hear due to background music.
  • Bugs and glitches such as animation problems, clipping, audio cutouts, and finicky platforming.

  • gameplay

    17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    35% positive mentions, 47% neutral mentions, 18% negative mentions

    The gameplay is simple and straightforward, focusing on punching robots with mechanical gloves, featuring light platforming and wave-based combat. While some find it repetitive and spammy, it offers a decent, smooth experience that works well as a casual, time-wasting action beat 'em up. The mechanics show potential for further refinement and complexity, such as adding difficulty settings or roguelike elements.

    • “The gameplay is short, simple, and smooth, providing an entertaining and refreshing experience.”
    • “Your character wears a pair of metallic, mechanical gloves that allow her to punch and throw enemies, offering fun and engaging combat mechanics.”
    • “It's a decent first-person beat 'em up; a little too spammy at times, but has solid mechanics that could be refined further in a sequel.”
    • “The gameplay is okay, pretty simple: just punch robots, use some special moves, and do a little light platforming, nothing too complicated.”
    • “It’s a decent first-person beat 'em up, a little too spammy at times, but if they chose to make a sequel and refine the mechanics, I’d absolutely be down to support it.”
    • “To be completely blunt, I'm not a fan of continually regenerating waves of enemies, although I understand why designers tend to use that gameplay tactic.”

  • story

    12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    17% positive mentions, 58% neutral mentions, 25% negative mentions

    The story in Bolt'n'punch is familiar but delivers a meaningful message about over mechanization and corporate greed, with occasional comedic moments. It relies heavily on environmental storytelling and audio recordings, though some players wished for more character-focused cinematics and verbal narrative. Overall, the story is considered adequate but not particularly innovative.

    • “The story is okay, nothing I haven't seen before; it does have a good message of over mechanization and corporate greed and the story has some cute and comedic moments that are a little chuckle-worthy.”
    • “Story progression is performed by picking up recordings that play audio files and, as you progress through the factory, you go through various rooms and specialized areas.”
    • “Would've liked to have seen the main character more in cinematics and would've appreciated more verbal storytelling as I find the story relies too much on the environment.”
    • “I really like the idea of this, and the sound, but it is laggy to play, so I will never know the story.”
    • “Bolt'n'punch is an okay action, beat'em up game published by the same people who brought many free games like Shadow Burglar, but okay, what is the story?”

  • graphics

    8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    63% positive mentions, 24% neutral mentions, 13% negative mentions

    The game features good, brightly colored, and visually appealing graphics with a futuristic design and commercial-grade quality. However, significant lag occurs during heavy ability usage even on high-end PCs at the lowest settings, impacting performance.

    • “The graphics are good and definitely have a nice brightly colored look with designs that give off a very futuristic feel.”
    • “The game is visually appealing and the visuals can be considered to be of commercial-grade quality.”
    • “Very nice graphics.”
    • “It was far too laggy, even at the lowest graphic settings, despite attempting all possible adjustments to reduce graphics quality.”

  • music

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The music effectively complements the game's futuristic tone and is generally well-produced, including a notably impressive end credits song. However, the soundtrack can sometimes overpower the voice acting, making dialogue difficult to hear without lowering the music volume. Overall, the game offers a solid audio presentation with decent music and sound effects for its length.

    • “The music fits the whole futuristic tone of the game well.”
    • “For a free game to have voice acting, cutscenes, and a decent soundtrack, this one is worth checking out for its 40-minute run time.”
    • “The game is presented quite well visually and audibly with music and sound effects.”
    • “Some of the voice acting feels a little phoned in and can be hard to hear, especially with the music on, to the point where I had to turn the music down to understand what the characters were saying.”
    • “The music is okay but can overpower the dialogue, making it difficult to follow the story without lowering the volume.”
    • “While the soundtrack fits the futuristic tone, the mixing issues between music and voice acting detract from the overall experience.”

  • stability

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game offers decent stability for a free title but suffers from occasional clunky controls, graphical glitches, and camera clipping issues. Some animations and achievements are buggy, impacting the overall polish.

    • “A bit clunky and buggy though.”
    • “I was disappointed at the amount of glitches I encountered: my character's knockout animations wouldn't play and the camera was constantly clipping.”
    • “The achievements are a bit buggy but in a not terrible way.”

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Users feel that the game could benefit from improved optimization to enhance performance.

    • “Wish it was optimized a bit better.”

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game requires significant grinding that may demand extra effort or resources, potentially leading to frustration for players.

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Bolt'N'Punch is a hack and slash game with science fiction theme. Common tags for Bolt'N'Punch include free to play, first-person, 3D, female protagonist, physics and others.

Bolt'N'Punch is available on PC and Windows.

Bolt'N'Punch was released on March 1, 2024.

Bolt'N'Punch was developed by ComeBack Game.

Bolt'N'Punch has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Bolt'N'Punch for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.

Bolt'N'Punch is a single player game.