In one finger death punch you are a stick figure that has Kung-Fu battles against waves of enemies. With a unique 1:1 response system meaning you don’t want to button mash you will regret it.

Developed and published by Silver Dollar Games
Released on March 3rd, 2014

Gameplay

There are 250 stages on the map with 21 skills to unlock as you explore the map. Once you clear the map you can then play the next difficulty. There are three difficulties to play through Student, Master and Grand Master.

The game uses only two buttons. If you are using a mouse, you use left and right click to attack left and right. If you’re using an Xbox controller its X and B to attack left and right. Blue is left and Red is right.

As you win levels the speed of the enemies increases and if you lose the speed goes down. Later levels have a higher base speed to make the game a little more challenging.

Sometimes you will get special animations that make the fight feel so much more epic. The environment also is destructible making the fights feel impactful.

Enemies

There are different types of enemies you will face throughout the game including.

Grey enemies – the most common enemy you will fight they only take one hit to kill.

Blue enemies – Will start from one side than move to the other side.

and many other colors. Some you will have you hit the multiple times on one side than move to the other side. Or they move back and forth. You know what button to press based on the colors under the enemies.

Brawler – These enemies will lock you into a one-on-one fight. A list of buttons will scroll from top to bottom. You must press them in order. If you miss, you will take a point of health.

There is a special enemy. The black enemies their patterns are random so stay alert when facing this enemy. The black enemy only shows up on Master and Grand Master difficulty.

Boss fights are fights with an enemy that changes color throughout the fight.

Weapons

There are a good number of weapons both ranged and melee.

For ranged you can get a bow, daggers of a bomb. They will travel the distance of the screen. They will kill the enemy in one hit. It doesn’t matter what color the enemy is.

Melee weapons are staff, sword and club. While equipped they will extend the range of your reach. Each melee weapon can be thrown each with their own effect. The staff will change directions with each hit and stop on the third. The sword will kill all enemies on one side. The club will bounce around the screen.

There is also a spike ball. You can kick the ball, and it will kill the enemy in one hit. You can keep using the ball as long as you hit it, and it hits an enemy.

Lets not forget about the Golden Sword. Sometimes, when you have only one hit left, a golden sword will descend from the sky. It will last for the rest of the round.

Game Modes

There are 13 different game modes you will play throughout the game. Some of those game modes are.

Mob Round – This is your basic round. It is the most common. In this mode, you must kill a set number of enemies to win.

Speed Round – You must race against the clock to kill a set number of enemies.

Thunderstorm Round – The level will be set in a dark blue. This makes it harder to see what type of enemy you are fighting. Weapons will also be harder to spot.

Light Sword Round – You play the entire round with Light Sword. Any fan of Star Wars will love this mode. The enemies you gradually get faster. With the final enemy being a brawler to make this mode feel so epic.

Nunchaku Round – You use Nunchaku for the entire round making you feel like you’re in a martial arts movie. It’s like the Light Sword round but with Nunchaku.

Dagger Round – One of my favorite modes. You can only throw one dagger at a time. You have to wait for the dagger to hit an enemy or go the length of the screen. So choose wisely and pay attention to what enemy comes out first.

Skills

Skills trigger after a certain number of kills or when you pick you a certain weapon. You can only have three skills equipped at one time. Some of the skills you can acquire are.

Weapon Rain – Two weapons drop from the sky after 35 kills.

Three Arrows – Every bow will have two extra arrows bring the total to three arrows for each bow.

Deep Impact – Next attack will wipe the screen of enemies activates after 37 kills.

Grey Out – turns all enemies Grey for 10 seconds activates after 30 kills.

Heal – Heals one health point activates after 99 kills.

Should you play?

YES this game is so much fun. It feels so good when you’re in the zone and make no mistakes. Perfecting a level is especially thrilling when the speed of the enemies is really high.

The animations are so cool and there is something about stick figures fighting that makes it more fun.

Picking up weapons in the middle of the fight feels so epic. Breaking the stage, sending enemies flying just adds to the fun.

If you are a fan of martial arts movies, you will have so much fun with this game.

Also, the game is only $5 on steam.

Thank you so much for reading this post if you would like to read more click here. If you want to be notified when I publish a new post, sign up for the newsletter. You can do this by entering your email down below.

---

Newsletter

Enter email to be notified when I publish a new post.