Game Information
Game Title: Knuckle Sandwich
Platforms:
- PC (Nov 22, 2023)
Trailer:
Developer: Andy Brophy
Publisher: SUPERHOT PRESENTS
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 84 average - 60% recommended - 6 reviews
Critic Reviews
Checkpoint Gaming - David McNamara - 7.5 / 10
Knuckle Sandwich is a charmingly absurd and lovingly crafted RPG adventure that delights in surprise. Its wonderfully nostalgic, SNES-like glitchcore visual and audio design constantly shifts style, and its rollercoaster of a plot happily sets up player expectations, subverts them, and then subverts them again. Unfortunately, the game is let down by a frustratingly restrictive inventory and some game balance issues leading to lengthy, repetitive boss encounters. However, Knuckle Sandwich’s charm and dry humour shines through at every step and is sure to leave you chuckling.
GameXplain - Thomas Arnold - Liked-a-lot
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Knuckle Sandwich revives a lost genre while sparking a whole new one. It’s uniquely clever and effortlessly funny.
Press Start - Brodie Gibbons - 9 / 10
Andy Brophy’s Knuckle Sandwich will likely go down as the year’s strangest and most endearing video game. It takes the framework of past icons such as Mother and Earthbound and injects a little bit of ocker into the mix to create an off-the-wall roleplaying game that’ll play to both the nostalgia harboured for our sunburnt country as well as the genre’s decades-long history.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Ed Thorn - Unscored
An indie turn-based RPG with an outstanding world and excellent story beats, but tired pacing and inconsistent combat veer it from fun into seriously frustrating.
Knuckle Sandwich is a unique and stunningly vibrant and gorgeous pixel-animated RPG that will test your resolve with its mini-games and turn-based sequences.