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APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

APE OUT is a violent, indie and top-down game developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy and Maxi Boch and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on February 28th 2019 is available on Windows and MacOS in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 3,526 reviews of which 3,345 were positive and 181 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified APE OUT into these genres:

Violent Indie Top-Down Gore Action Fast-Paced Singleplayer Difficult Stylized Beat 'em up Music Blood Arcade 2D Top-Down Shooter Music-Based Procedural Generation Atmospheric Casual Surreal Soundtrack

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 x64
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: Controller Recommended

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.11 or higher
Processor: Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Storage: 2 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Oct. 2025

Visually very appealing, the level of violence is mellowed out by it's cartoonish art direction, reminding me of cartoons I used to watch as a kid. Ape Out is enjoyable to play if you are in the mood to smash stuff up. The interpretive percussive soundtrack fits perfectly with the overall vibe of an ape escaping his captors, as your tear them to pieces and launch their limbs at other unsuspecting victims. Fun game and worth your time.

Sept. 2025

I have red-green colorblindness and I just have a difficult time playing parts of this game due to it. It is a fun game with great art and music, I just unfortunately cannot play it. I would love to give it another go if there is some sort of accessibility option to change the colors up in the future.

Sept. 2025

This game has tactile impact. You can feel every kill, snare, and gunshot in your spine. The gameplay loop is simple and perfected in its simplicity, and the hyper-active jazz soundtrack is unlike anything else another game might throw at you musically. This game makes me shake and sweat and smile wide and that's all I asked.

July 2025

this game blew me away. the music slapped unbelievably hard. the system where the music follows your progression and your amount of aggression is unlike anything i've seen in any other game. the cool art style also fits the music, rough and sporadic. the ending hit me hard when the music exploded my only complaint is the length of the game. both the A side and the B side together take less than 2 hours to complete if you aren't terrible at the game. don't pay $15 for this, wait for a sale.

Jan. 2025

You will "go bananas" playing Ape Out. Actually, this game might make you go insane. It's a good thing "Ape Out" is not more popular because entire mental wards would be dedicated to people who went insane trying to complete it. Just going through the game normally and beating it takes less than five hours, completing the achievements takes 100-200 hours or more. This game almost made me quit playing video games completely- I mean, I like a challenge but, what this game does is pure evil. It's pretty broken, even just selecting an option on the menu is somehow extremely frustrating. You are an ape who must reach the exit- there's no story, it doesn't matter. Sometimes you're being held captive by soldiers, sometimes you're in a cage on top of a skyscraper, it doesn't make any sense and you shouldn't care. The ape has no powerups, cannot heal, he can only grab and throw people. All of the enemies have a brief moment before they attack, as if they're lining up a shot. They shoot, you grab- see where the difficulty lies? 90% of the game is best completed just sticking to the bottom of the map so the enemies don't surround you. The tough part is when you get to arcade difficulty, with achievement so hard you will basically land on the leaderboard if you complete them. Now there is a strict time limit and if you die, you start over from the beginning. Seems not so bad, but the levels are randomized, what worked once will never work again. Practice in this game is meaningless because it's so simplistic. What does work, even though it's kind of ridiculous, is developing different rules of thumb for each area because the layout is approximately similar. You will do over and over and over- there are hard games, there are frustrating games, there are completely broken games, and then there is Ape Out. As a final, hateful attack on the player's self worth and meaning in life, a single banana is randomly hidden in the second half of each stage. You must complete the stage without dying to find it and then complete the level holding the banana. If you do this in all ten stages (One for each normal and hard difficulty) you will be treated to a minigame where you are the equivalent of donkey kong trying to kill a man for stealing his bananas. If you lose this minigame, you lose all the bananas. This alone can take 50 hours or more and took me four days of near-continuous play to achieve. Was it worth it? God no, but [I]this game was painful, and I felt the need to best it in a manner that is almost spiritually transcendent, as it goes beyond frustration and into a realm of psychotic insanity that puts it in line with games like Doom 2016 on Ultranightmare. It is perhaps the hardest game I have ever played, and that is not a compliment, as your deaths will all just be the inevitable failure of you, the game's poor coding or both. And while the game's inspired design - graphics that look like paper cardboard and glass that constantly hums as a bunch of fuzzy blue dots until you break, does make you think this will be a fun, relaxing experience, the game will eventually transform into a nightmare that you cannot fully comprehend. I suppose, the reason I give "Ape Out" a positive rating, is that it is not unlike life. Life is extremely unfair, with constant events where you can lose despite trying as hard as you can and doing nothing wrong. And, like life, you only get one shot, and if you screw it up you're done for. Also, like life, you must collect money, not unlike this game's bananas, but make one mistake, and you lose all your money, and/or bananas. In summary, I appreciate the game's creative presentation and solo drumming soundtrack but it also made me want to bash my skull in repeatedly and continued playing of it almost felt like a form of self torture or the movie Groundhog Day with no ending in sight and little reward when you get there.

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Frequently Asked Questions

APE OUT is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

APE OUT is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 14.79€ on Steam.

APE OUT received 3,345 positive votes out of a total of 3,526 achieving an impressive rating of 9.10.

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APE OUT was developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy and Maxi Boch and published by Devolver Digital.

APE OUT is playable and fully supported on Windows.

APE OUT is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

APE OUT is not playable on Linux.

APE OUT is a single-player game.

APE OUT does not currently offer any DLC.

APE OUT does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

APE OUT does not support Steam Remote Play.

APE OUT is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for APE OUT.

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