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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 to crush everyone on your procedurally generated path to freedom. Stylish Escape: Embrace bold colors and a dazzling perspective as you rush through tight corridors, open areas, and twisting labyrinths on a mad dash for freedom. Overcome all manner of human opposition, nefarious traps, and breakable obstacles to find each exit and escape captivity. Grab and Smash: Unleash your primal ins

Release date
February 28, 2019
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy, Maxi Boch
Publisher
Devolver Digital
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★ 9.0/10GOG · 95 ratings
GOGLast checked October 31, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
Imagine Hotline Miami, except instead of picking up various weapons like baseball bats and crowbars and throwing them at people, you just pick up people,…
★ 5 / 5
As other reviews already mentioned, this game is awesome! It seems to run without a problem on Linux using Wine (tested on version 4.2)
★ 5 / 5
Super fun arcade style game that plays out like Hotline Miami, but with apes instead. You start out as a caged ape that must escape…
★ 5 / 5
Ape Out is awesome. Played mostly with M+KB on a laptop, preferable over gamepad. You're a big gorilla in a science facility. You see other…
★ 5 / 5
It's a simple idea, done right. The gameplay and the music comes together beautifully. The game is sometimes hard, but fair. The music is splendid.…
★ 3 / 5
Ape Out is a very simplistic but quite engaging game about a gorilla on the run. The gameplay is bare-bones but works well if you…
★ 3 / 5
Ape Out is a good game that left a sour taste in my mouth, so I decided to drop it. Best played on a controller…
★ 5 / 5
Ape Out its a simple game with simple mechanics but with all the background story of our Gorilla you probably would think that killing bad…

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★ 5 / 5
The rhythm, the feel, the look, the gameplay, the fun! It's literally one of the best games I've ever played and the best it its…
★ 5 / 5
good dynamic music fun visual i would like to see more stuff like this
★ 2 / 5
You ever have that thing where you're playing a game and suddenly things start going a bit haywire because you left a controller plugged in…
★ 5 / 5
Everything about this game drips style. The game has an adaptive soundtrack, so everything that happens has its own sound associated to it. Smashing someone…
★ 5 / 5
Everything is in the title, APE OUT that s your goal and that s what the whole gameplay is about. The game is not very…
★ 4 / 5
So, here's the deal, and it's short and sweet just like the game. You go through gorgeous, fast-paced levels to reach the exit, while causing…

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