- New Patch and 3rd Anniversary! - 28 February 2022
Hi! It's been three years since this game came out! That's pretty weird! We've made a little patch updating the game engine and tweaking some stuff here and there: -Separate music and sfx volume settings -Better drum volume mixing -Some AI Fixes and tweaks to improve guard searching behavior -Are you sure confirmation when restarting an album -Better compatibility with new and future devices I hope you enjoy it! Please leave a comment if you run into any issues. Hopefully updating the engine will have fixed the technical issues that afflicted some computers. Thanks for playing the game! And if you haven't played it before, grab it this week at 70% off (highest discount yet)!
- BETA PATCH - 26 February 2022
Hello! We've been working on a new patch for the 3rd anniversary of the games release next week. Some quality of life improvements & a new version of the engine that will hopefully remedy outstanding technical issues. It's live on the public beta branch. Please try it & tell me if it works!
- Have You Played Ape Out? - 29 May 2020
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. There is no part of Ape Out that is not good. I love it. It is perfect and glorious. You must play it. (more…)
- The best action games on PC - 7 February 2020
Everyone loves a good action game. It’s the driving force behind so many of our favourite PC games, but only a few can lay claim to being the best action games of all time. That’s why we’ve compiled this list – to sort the pulled punches from the bestest biffs that PC has to offer. Whether it’s the joy of pulling off a perfect combo, riding the wave of an explosive set-piece or the hair-raising thrill of dodging enemy attacks in slow-motion that gets you going, there’s an action game here for you. (more…)
- Best PC games of 2019 - 6 January 2020
2019 was a great year for PC games – aren’t they all? – but you might not yet know what the very best PC games of 2019 were. Let us help you. (more…)
- Get Ape Out free on the Epic Games Store - 23 December 2019
This is one of my favorite promo trailers of all time. The holidays are all about getting free stuff (right?) and so here's some free stuff for you: Ape Out , a top-down tale of a super-powered simian who loves freedom and jazz percussion in equal measure, is now yours for the taking on the Epic Games Store . Ape Out is kind of a silly thing: Frenetic, destructive, splattery, and loud , but in a really good way. The more havoc you wreak on your way out the door, the more gonzo the soundtrack becomes, and that's what really sells it. Ripping a reinforced door off its hinges and using it to turn a shotgun-wielding security guard into a new Jackson Pollock is cool, sure, but doing it to the sound of wild crashing cymbals takes the experience to a whole different level. Tyler said in his 70/100 review that it starts to drag in the second half, but it's "so thunderously stylis…
- The best games of the decade on PC - 6 December 2019
It’s been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that’s happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you , but a day’s work for us. Below you’ll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade. (more…)
- Daily Deal - APE OUT, 50% Off - 19 November 2019
Today's Deal: Save 50% on APE OUT !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Daily Deal - APE OUT, 30% Off - 22 July 2019
Today's Deal: Save 30% on APE OUT !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends July 29 at 10AM Pacific Time
- The best games of 2019 so far - 10 July 2019
Summer. The heat age. Scorch season. Spring’s hangover. It’s the mid-point of the year and you know what that means. No, not “mojito time”, Geoff, put those away. It’s time we told you what the best games of the year are so far. There are quite a lot of them. Just look how many videogames have escaped from their developers in the past six months and are now running amok through the blistering streets, getting stuck in the melting tarmac, like ants in jam. It’s unsanitary. So allow us to round up these unruly games and trap them in a handy list. Here are our favourite sword swingers and space ‘splorers so far this year (and a couple of DLCs for good measure). Okay, Geoff, now bring the mojitos. (more…)
- Wot I Think: Devolver Bootleg - 12 June 2019
Developer: doinksoft Publisher: Devolver Digital Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam For: 4, $5, 4 What have those scoundrels at Devolver Digital gone and done now? Oh look, it s Devolver Bootleg , a mixtape of the Punk IPA publisher’s classics that someone left in their jeans pocket before a wash and now the musics all fuzzy and the track list is garbled nonsense. Also it s one percent off, yeah, because screw discounts? So, is this a delightful slice of performance-art-as-consumer-product brilliance? Or have Devolver, in their mission statement to point a funhouse mirror at the game industry s cynical marketing, done a big old cynicism themselves? (more…)
- How the frenetic jazz of Ape Out elevates its violence - 21 March 2019
From the languid tempo that starts each level, to the frenetic bebop energy driving a series of devastating assaults, the soundscape of the indie beat em up Ape Out is all about contrasts. As the eponymous gorilla, Ape Out lets players exact revenge against a battalion of doughy humans who are too feeble to stand directly against your wrath. It s thunderous centrifuge of jazz and violence where the former is just as important as the latter. It’s a game that goes between extremes, says Matt Boch, an associate arts professor at the NYU Game Center and the composer and sound designer of Ape Out s dizzying soundtrack. We’re trying to give people these heights of intensity, and then the low points that build suspense. (more…)
- APE OUT 1.2: THE FAIR PLAY UPDATE - 11 March 2019
Hey all, this new patch is aimed at making the game more fair. -Increased size and accuracy of no-spawn zone around starting point -Removed flamethrowers and bazookas from the harder indoor areas of Fugue and Adrift -Removed behavior where guards fired extremely quickly when approaching corners with guns aimed -Prevented guards from shooting too quickly when grabbed (and hitting the player in some cases) -Slightly increased machine gun guard's reaction time (they take longer to react) -Slightly increased guard reaction time when lights are out (they take longer to react) -Prevented explosions from chaining through walls -Flamethrower guards' now must ready their flamethrowers before shooting -Audio Improvements -Fix for the game running too fast on some systems -Fix for fugue ending playing at the wrong time in arcade mode. -Possible fix for guards sometimes being inside closed containe…
- PATCH v1.1 - 8 March 2019
Hey all, this patch has been live for a day or two already, but here are the patch notes: -Added Laptop Mode to the options menu (removes some visual effects to improve performance) -Added Headphone Mode to the options menu (adds binaural ambisonic rendering for a more immersive audio experience) -Added support for resolutions higher than 1080p -Added bespoke drum fills for the death screen on each drum kit -Added 15 seconds to the time limit when playing harder albums on arcade mode -Better sounding transitions in and out of the menu. -Drummer now plays faster as you get closer to the time limit in arcade mode -Drummer now pauses for a beat when you take damage -Slightly reduced number of guards on the hard version of Abandon Ship -Fixed bug where you could complete a level after you die, resulting in things getting weird -Fixed bug where guards were on fire but no fire was visible -Fi…
- Ape Out review - 7 March 2019
An ape who wants to escape only has a few options, one of which is shoving her human captors into walls so hard that all the blood flies out of their bodies. That's the plan for Ape Out's ape, and it's pretty much the whole plan. After the first human goes splat, the percussive jazz kicks in, and the dizzying improv violence session is on—just keep running and always be splatting. While Ape Out starts to drag after the first couple acts, it's hard to put down anyway, because it looks, sounds and feels so consistently cool. As the ape, you charge across procedurally-generated mazes from a top-down view, shoving, grabbing, and tossing the human-shaped enemies in your way. It's like a twin-stick shooter, where one analog stick controls movement and the other rotation, but your guns are your biceps. I preferred the mouse and keyboard controls, where WASD move…
- Ape Out review - a meditation on jazz, violence and escapee monkeys - 1 March 2019
From the moment you first smash your way out of your cell, pulping a guard against the opposite wall, it's clear Ape Out is going to be a lot of fun. The next thing you realise is that you're actually playing a kind of rhythm game. One where all you know is murder. Ape Out has a very simple conceit and is very easy to pick up. You, that is to say a honking great gorilla, want to escape. Lots of armed guards stand in your way, so it's probably best to brutally murder them on your way out the door. You have only two buttons to contend with - one to grab and one to smash. Hurling your enemies into the nearest wall or grabbing them for use as a meat shield makes you feel tremendously powerful, and the weird shuffling movements of the gorilla have been so well realised that movement is a delight - as long as you're playing with a controller, that is. Playing Ape Out with a keyboard and mouse…
- Podcast: Lies, tricks and twists - 28 February 2019
Truth is the first casualty of first-person shooters, said the philosopher Ian Videogames. Time has proven him correct. Not a game is developed without some use of smoke and/or mirror. But this week on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show , we shall not be lying to you. We are journalists and we stand for the Truth with a big ‘T’. No more tricksy use of code and polygon, we say. No more lying! Unless it makes us go really, really fast. (more…)
- Now Available on Steam - APE OUT - 28 February 2019
APE OUT is Now Available on Steam! APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
- APE OUT / OUT NOW - 28 February 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F6638525%2Fee4fe70539cd5ec011a62457debd6b89b8be35cf.jpg 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. https://youtu.be/inL630qzCnI https://store.steampowered.com/app/447150/APE_OUT/
- Wot I Think: Ape Out - 28 February 2019
Developer: Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy, Matt Boch Publisher: Devolver Digital Release: On: Windows From: Steam, GOG, Humble For: TBC Once I went to the zoo in San Diego, and a load of people were banging on the glass at an orangutan and its baby instead of just being appropriately (quietly) awed. One man in particular was hollering at what was a very sad looking ape, and honestly if there was justice in the world the orangutan would have smashed free and liquified that man s limbs like a bouncer squeezing an uncooked sausage. In Ape Out , there is that justice. And jazz. And it is glorious. (more…)
