Punishment Special Edition

Punishment Special Edition

FACT STUDIO · January 22, 2025 · Adventure, Action, RPG, Arcade, Action-Adventure

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9 user reviews78% · 9
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About Punishment Special Edition

Help the knight Roger in his mission to rescue survivors in an ancient dungeon, in this turn-based RPG game with horror elements based on old games and other Survivor Horror and Soulslike titles. Face challenges like dealing with monsters, puzzles and yourself.*Controls**Ghost*When you die you will turn into a ghost, so you will not be able to talk to anyone, unless you use a "Soul Stone" to come back to life. But the more times you die, the more difficult the game becomes.*Cheats* In the main menu you can find some codes to "make the game easier". *A little bit of development*Punishment started with an idea that accidentally ended up escalating into a full game. After the creator became extremely irritated playing the game, he decided to create an even more difficult game. However, a game that was just difficult wasn't fun, so that's when the mission came to make it "easier" in the right way, but still with a high challenge, making the player have to play again several times until finally learning. With great inspiration from old games. The FACT Studio team thanks you

Punishment Special Edition — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Punishment Special Edition is a brutally difficult dungeon crawler that punishes failure by increasing difficulty with each death and forcing players into ghost form until they find soul stones, creating a relentless cycle of frustration. While the game successfully delivers on its premise of being genuinely challenging and punishing mistakes, players find the difficulty curve excessively punishing rather than rewarding skill improvement, making it feel designed more to frustrate than to provide engaging challenge.

Recommended Jul 18, 2025
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Recommended Feb 2, 2025
Alright, here’s the deal—Punishment Special Edition isn’t just a game. It’s a test of your patience, sanity, and possibly your willingness to throw your keyboard out the window. You play as Roger, a knight who’s clearly had enough of life because every decision you make leads to suffering. Imagine stepping into a dungeon thinking, Yeah, I got this, only to be immediately smacked by some unholy nightmare creature that barely flinches when you hit back. And when you die? Oh, you’re not done. You become a ghost, forced to float around like a sad little poltergeist until you find a "Soul Stone" to bring yourself back. It’s like Dark Souls, but with extra existential dread. And if you think, I’ll just get good, the game’s like, Haha, no. The more you die, the harder it gets. It’s like the developers saw you struggling and thought, You know what would be fun? Making it worse. But don’t worry—there are cheat codes. Because even the game knows some of us need a little divine intervention. It’s brutal. It’s punishing. It’s free. So if you enjoy pain with a side of strategy, congratulations—this game was made for you.
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