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 to crush everyone on your procedurally generated path to freedom. 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.
FightingHack and slash/Beat 'em upAdventureIndieArcadeActionprocedural generationabstractviolentdigital distributionmusic and rhythmpax west 2017extreme violenceescaping imprisonmentapepreviously on - pc gamepassPC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
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Relentless, plot-driven, overwhelming and spare.
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the game
- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch
- Developer
- Gabe Cuzzillo
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- February 28, 2019
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
- Engine
- Unity
- Time to beat
- 3.5 h main story
IGDB rating 7.9/10 from 115 ratings.
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