Election Year Knockout
Arcade boxing against political parodies on a campaign for president
ExceptioNULL Games · Released Jul 2, 2020
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 84% of 83
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Players
- 0
- daily peak, Oct 28, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 2 years ago
- May 14, 2024
What is Election Year Knockout?
In this single-player boxing game, a politically divided country settles its disputes in the ring. You create a political party, customize your fighter’s appearance, and fight a series of opponents with different strengths and weaknesses as you work toward the White House.
For you if...
- +you like tackling extra objectives after beating an opponent
Not for you if...
- −you want multiplayer matches against other people
What players say
84% of 83 reviews are positive
Players praise the Punch-Out-style combat and jokes about politicians. Complaints center on uneven difficulty, with some players calling later fights unfair or saying poorly explained mechanics require too much trial and error.
Screenshots and trailer
Election Year Knockout system requirements
Minimum: GTX 760, 4 GB RAM, 0.3 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run Election Year Knockout?
Tell us your graphics card once and every game page will answer this for you.
Set up my PC →Minimum
- OS
- Windows 7 - 64 bit
- Processor
- First generation Intel i3 or equivalent
- Graphics
- nVidia GTX 760 or equivalent
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows FBI Edition
- Processor
- A fast one. No one's ever seen a processor this fast.
- Graphics
- The most beautiful graphics, that's what people tell me.
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 300 MB available space
- Notes
- Jab's banned, don't let him in. Okay? He doesn't get to play.
Does Election Year Knockout have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does Election Year Knockout run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS
- Achievements
- 27
- Steam features
- Family Sharing
- Languages
- Full audio: English. Text only: French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese.
Does Election Year Knockout use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 27, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Arcade
- Comedy
- Casual
- Old School
- Boss Rush
- Boxing
- Beat 'em up
- Cartoony
- Combat
- Political Sim
- Indie
- Dystopian
- Satire
- Retro
- Sports
- Action-Adventure
Recent updates
- May 14, 2024 · Controller Hotfix (version 2.0.1)
- May 10, 2024 · Leaderboard Update (version 2.0.0)
- Aug 9, 2022 · Vladimir Bootin Update (version 1.3.0)
- Jul 30, 2021 · Update Notes for Patch 1.2.0!