Animal Fight Club

Genre: Action / Misc.

Players: 1

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Review:

Animal Fight Club, released on PC and Nintendo Switch in 2020, is… odd. If I had to describe the type of game this is, I suppose I’d say it’s an Action game but that doesn’t quite describe it. There are elements of Simulation and Action-RPG-style games here too. But mostly, Animal Fight Club is just weird.

The visuals in this game are pretty terrible, with low-poly 3D characters with terrible animation in flat, barren, untextured environments, this is a game that looks amateurish at best. Meanwhile, the game’s menus are oddly quiet, backed by only water noises. Meanwhile, gameplay is accompanied by decent but unremarkable rock music. The only other noise there seems to be here is each animal’s signature sound when they attack in combat (and some are bizarre, like the scream yelped out by the fox).

The combat in this game is outright terrible. Characters move slowly, attack slowly and clumsily, and both movement and camera control becomes awkward when characters are close to one another. There’s also no nuance here – just get close to the animal you want to attack, make sure you’re in range and facing them, and hit the attack button. I suppose there is some potential strategy here, in that each animal has elemental strengths and weaknesses, but you’re not really shown what these strengths and weaknesses are in the midst of combat, and have little control over these stats when building your army in the first place.

The only other element to this game is the building of your army, and this is probably the game’s one saving grace, as this involves ordering and cross-breeding them, making for odd combinations. Combining a flamingo and a coyote resulted in a coyomingo, with long thin legs and a furry pink body with the coyote’s canine-like muzzle, and combining a snake and an elephant produced a snakephant, with a snake’s body and a tiny elephant head. It’s certainly amusing seeing what animal combinations you can come up with, but doing so requires points that need to be earned in the game’s terrible battles, and there’s only so much amusement to be gained from this in the first place.

Animal Fight Club is amusing in concept, the idea of an Action game to settle the age-old argument of who would win a fight between a deer-fox or a giraffe-goose. However, the silliness of seeing these animals is about the only positive element to this game, which is otherwise a horrible mess in pretty much every way.

tl;dr – Animal Fight Club is a bizarre game that has you creating an army of odd combined-animal creatures and then fighting an opposing army of creatures. Unfortunately, the combat here is terrible, and the amusement of making odd custom animals only goes so far. Skip this one.

Grade: D-

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