2022-02-28 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Gabe
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
2022-02-26 23:27 UTC · Community Announcements · Gabe
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!
2020-05-29 06:30 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)
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…)
2020-02-07 15:01 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
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…)
2020-01-06 10:11 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
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…)
2019-12-23 19:25 UTC · PC Gamer
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
2019-12-06 16:16 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
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…)
2019-11-19 18:32 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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
2019-07-22 17:05 UTC · Announcement · Valve
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
2019-07-10 16:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)
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 ou
2019-06-12 09:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Nic Reuben)
Developer: doinksoft Publisher: Devolver DigitalRelease: 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 ga
2019-03-21 12:00 UTC · Rock, Paper, Shotgun · contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Khee Hoon Chan)
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 Ap
2019-03-11 15:23 UTC · Community Announcements · Gabe
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
2019-03-08 20:41 UTC · Community Announcements · Gabe
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 li
2019-03-07 06:52 UTC · PC Gamer
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-g
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