Ape Out
Ape Out is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz. Build up nearly unstoppable momentum and use your captors as both weapons and shields…
Ape Out is an adventure developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, released 28 February 2019 on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $2.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 3.3 hrs to finish.
What Ape Out is
Ape Out is an adventure game developed by Gabe Cuzzillo and released in 2019. It was published by Devolver Digital. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Ape Out is a frenetic, top-down beat 'em up with a stark, minimalist art style and a reactive, all-percussion jazz soundtrack. The player takes control of a powerful gorilla desperate to break free from captivity, smashing and hurling its way through maze-like corridors. Armed guards stand in the way at every turn, and the ape must grab, throw, and crush them or use their own bodies as living shields to survive. Across four chapters, the story is a wordless, visceral surge of raw momentum as the captive fights toward one primal goal: freedom.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 23 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Ape Out holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 79, across 115 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 3.3 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.91 per hour of the main story.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent, 2 GB RAM and GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at Steam, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Ape Out launched on 28 February 2019, within three weeks of Metro Exodus, Devil May Cry 5, Anthem and Tom Clancy's The Division 2. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metro Exodus, Devil May Cry 5, Anthem, Tom Clancy's The Division 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Ape Out yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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