Punch Machine

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Punch Machine is a single player casual platformer game. It received negative reviews from players.

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29%Audience ScoreBased on 420 reviews

gameplay8 positive mentions

monetization224 negative mentions

The game concept and gameplay are enjoyable and provide casual fun and a good time killer experience.
Ads are sometimes less annoying compared to other similar apps, and some players find it addictive despite issues.
Some users appreciate updates and new features, and occasional good content and mechanics are praised.

Excessive and intrusive ads severely disrupt gameplay, including forced ads after every level, ads that trap players, and many ads that fail to load.
The game suffers from severe performance issues including frequent crashes, lag, freezes, and glitches that make it often unplayable.
Progression is extremely slow or blocked without watching ads; upgrades are ineffective or do not apply properly, making progression frustrating and unrewarding.

monetization
252 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
11%
89%
The game's monetization heavily relies on an overwhelming number of forced and reward ads, which many users find excessive, intrusive, and buggy, causing frequent crashes and slow, frustrating progression. The "no ads" purchase is widely reported as ineffective, with ads persisting even after payment, leading to widespread frustration and perceptions of the game as a pay-to-win cash grab. Overall, the ad experience severely diminishes gameplay enjoyment and progression.
- “Forced to watch ads after every round, often unable to skip them, severely disrupting gameplay and enjoyment.”
- “The ads frequently do not load or crash the game, making progression impossible even after trying to watch rewarded ads.”
- “Paying to remove ads does not eliminate all advertisements; forced ads and glitches persist, making the purchase essentially worthless.”
stability
39 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from frequent freezes, glitches, and lag, often crashing after battles, ads, or during loading screens, making it largely unplayable. Numerous users report having to restart the app or their phones, with issues persisting even after purchases to remove ads. Overall, stability is a major problem severely impacting the gameplay experience.
- “Terrible game, barely playable, orange screens after every level that don’t go away until you force quit the app. The game itself is buggy, slow, and made so that you will never reach the goal without spending. I installed it for a few minutes before removing it due to bugs and it bugged out my whole phone. Stay away.”
- “The game won’t even open. I’ve had to force restart my phone because the game just freezes on the loading screen and crashes, making it stuck on the loading screen and not allowing me to close the app.”
- “After every versus battle or storyboard, the game basically freezes and needs to be restarted.”
gameplay
13 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
62%
15%
23%
The gameplay is generally considered repetitive, slow-progressing, and hindered by inconsistent mechanics and useless upgrades. While some find the core concept interesting, the experience is overwhelmingly marred by excessive and intrusive ads that disrupt enjoyment and progression.
- “Good concept and interesting gameplay, but it's really laggy which can often screw up a run.”
- “For something with easy mechanics it's still too hard to earn money. I installed it as something to pass time but it is becoming boring; each level becomes harder and I can't even upgrade skills which makes it so hard.”
- “The gameplay is good, but it's also basically an ad delivery system with the frequency of them.”
- “For every 30 seconds of gameplay, it gives 4 ads that you cannot skip if you want to succeed, not including ads for extra fighters.”
- “Inconsistent gameplay, useless upgrades, extremely slow progress, and full of ads.”
- “For something with easy mechanics, it's still too hard to earn money. I installed it to pass time, but it becomes boring as each level gets harder and I can't upgrade skills, making it very difficult.”
optimization
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
22%
45%
33%
The recent update has significantly degraded the game's optimization, leading to frequent stuttering, freezing, and lag that disrupt gameplay and responsiveness. Users find the game increasingly unplayable and buggy, with performance issues overshadowing its otherwise fun features.
- “Update has cool features, but the game is too glitchy and no longer runs smoothly.”
- “Laggy game, very unoptimized; if it were optimized, it would be more fun.”
- “The game suffers from constant stuttering and freezing, causing your punches to not register as well as your finger movements.”
- “Addictive but very buggy with bad performance, constantly stuttering after the first round, having to reload the game every time, shame.”
- “Since the update, the performance has fallen drastically.”
grinding
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
Grinding in the game is seen as slow, unrewarding, and largely pointless, with many players feeling it serves more to push scam ads than to provide meaningful progress.
- “All that grinding feels pointless and unrewarding.”
- “All the adds are for scam sites, it's really really slow and looks just like every other ad farming money grab of a game.”
story
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
Users find the story repetitive and encounter frequent freezing issues after battles or story scenes, requiring game restarts.
- “Every time I reopen the game, it's the same story.”
music
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The music is generally good but considered too simple, and some users noted a lack of variety in sound.