‘Huge Boy Boxing’ Punches Out Some Oddball Fighters

Huge Boy Boxing is a unusual slapstick boss-rush recreation the place you can be combating in opposition to a bunch of former boxing champions, making an attempt your luck at destroying them.

These completely different champions all have actually enjoyable trying characters, actions and bits of dialog that may make you smile. When it’s time to battle them, you’ll be able to dodge, punch, and cost your self up for large hits, slowly working down the well being bar of the individual you might be up in opposition to. You may solely take three hits, so avoiding blows and ensuring that you’re attacking as a lot as potential is the actual aim in these fights.

The combating feels very clean and easy to grasp, largely due to the fascinating manner that narration is woven into the gameplay. Huge Boy Boxing lets you perceive extra concerning the assaults and the best way to take in your challenger via what they are saying to you, supplying you with some context and an higher hand on who you might be combating for those who pay shut sufficient consideration to it.

There are additionally mini-games, rematches, and minibosses throughout the recreation. Over time, you may also unlock skills that may permit you to heal, (which makes it a lot simpler to deal with heavy-hitters) or make every thing transfer in sluggish movement. These may give you an actual edge as your enemies begin to get more durable. And weirder. Boxing ghosts within the sewers is one thing that simply occurs on this recreation, and there are loads more unusual fighters the place that one got here from.

There’s something very enjoyable and really foolish about Huge Boy Boxing, even right down to the title. It appears like one thing I haven’t actually skilled in a boxing recreation earlier than, so I’m actually excited to see the complete launch!



Huge Boy Boxing is at present in improvement, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a give attention to smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all the recreation jams happening on this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can also be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.