Punch Your Way Out is OUT NOW!

Punch Your Way Out is out now!

You wake up in a small room made of cubes. You have two fists, a vacuum hose and about 200 metres of rock between you and the sky. The walls break. The floor breaks. The ceiling breaks. Start punching.

Punch, vacuum, sell, repeat

Every cube you hit cracks and bursts into rubble. Hose it into your tank, feed it to the Trade Hatch and order upgrades from the paper Catalogue: knuckle tape, a bigger tank, stronger suction, camps along the way and plenty more. Loot hides all through the rock, from Dynamite and a Jackhammer to Brass Knuckles and Grandma's Oven Mitts.

Get buff

Your arms grow as you dig, through eight strength stages from Noodle to Absolute Unit. At the top, one punch clears a circle of rock 15 cubes wide. It takes a while to get there, and that is the point.

The rock fights back

Somewhere in the walls a metronome starts ticking. The next cube you break sets something off:

• The Squeeze: the room around you clears and the spiked walls start closing in. Punch the vault door open before they meet.
• Pick One: two doors, left or right. One of them hides a boxing glove on a giant spring.
• Big Gary: a very large mole rat with a gold tooth and a taste for your rubble. Punch his rump to get it back.
• The Ream Machine: a drill wakes up in the rock and chases you down your own tunnel. Run until it overheats.

Every encounter gives you a shot of Adrenaline, so your punch jumps a size up for 10 seconds. Snap a spike tip, knock out Big Gary or outlast the drill, and the trophy gets bolted to your knuckles.

Daylight is 200 metres away

Seven biomes stack up between the start room and the surface, from the Cellar to the Root Crust, each with its own critters. Every run builds a new world with five ways out. About 100 metres in, you might think you made it. You didn't.

Better with friends

Up to four players dig the same world online. Proximity voice chat fades with distance, pings mark what you find through the rock, and you can punch your friends too. Three quick hits leave them dizzy. Solo works just as well, and you can save a run and continue it later.

Thanks for playing! If you get stuck in a wall or find a bug, tell us in the Steam discussions. See you at the surface, Black Sea Studios