Super Crush KO

Developer/publisher Vertex Pop

Format PC, Switch (tested)

Release Out now

Within minutes of playing this side-scrolling beat-’em-up, we’ve let out that sigh. You know the noise you make when, after a long day’s left you with a dry mouth and a headache, the first drop of a cold beverage hits your tongue? When Super Crush KO immediately hands us an uppercut, a multidirectional air-kick and a ground-pound, which all segue into each other at the merest suggestion of a button-press, that sound escapes us. Ahhh.

There is something undeniably refreshing about this type of game, which – although in no danger of shaking up the world of videogames as we know it – executes a achieved much the same back in 2017, offering simple, sharp side-scrolling action bolstered by a thrilling weapon-swapping system and a focus on score-chasing. provides the same compulsive arcade sugar rush, but for players who are more into dragon punches than deep space.