History VideoGame / PunchClub

* HeroesWantRedheads: Adrian is introduced as Roy's sister and Roy is the one encouraging the player to interact with her. The player can then take up Roy's offer, leading to a romantic relationship with her.

* MagikarpPower: endurance, and its specialization, the Way of the Turtle. You'll have a fairly boring early game, with drawn out fights, but once you reach the end of its perk tree? You'll have abilities that allow you to cut off energy regeneration for both you and your opponents, except '' you'' will have abilities that reduce energy cost, cost nothing, or straight up allow you to steal that of your opponents. Strength based opponents will melt through their energy bars quickly, whereas agility ones will find themselves unable to get through your guard. This means that, once the opponent's stamina is drained, a Turtle build will just knock them down '' over and over again'' until they don't get back up.

* OneStatToRuleThemAll: In the original version of the game, Agility was this, as consistently hitting your opponent was more important than hitting them harder but less often, and Way of the Tiger ignored Strength entirely by doing damage based on Agility instead. Given that Agility also influenced your ability to dodge attacks entirely (and therefore negate damage), making a build with anything other than Agility was essentially taking the much more difficult road. Later updates to the game balanced things out a bit more by making Strength more consistently useful, but Stamina is now the dump stat, better in a secondary role (to increase HP and Endurance) instead of a primary role (focusing on letter opponents wear themselves down by punching you in the face).

** By the time the sequel happens, [[spoiler: Fluffy is revealed as the BigBad of the story, responsible for kidnapping the hero, implanting chips into everyone including Adrian, starting a nuclear holocaust and creating a dystopian city over the course of twenty years]].