Gabe Cuzzillo·Released Feb 28, 2019·Single player
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 prioritizes style over substance, but it's weird and interesting enough to justify a play.
A sensational audiovisual experience that starts to drag around halfway in.
From the moment you first smash your way out of your cell, pulping a guard against the opposite wall, it's clear Ape Ou…
An intoxicating fusion of percussion and destruction that oozes style from every angle.
Ape Out's brand of colorful, ultraviolet action makes for a great time.
The Nintendo eShop would be a considerably more exciting and interesting place if it were packed full of games like Ape Out, it's a refreshingly original experience that more than deserves a place in any Switch owner's library. Difficult, frenetic gameplay, a strong art direction, and an even stronger jazz drum soundtrack make this the sort of memorable game that you'll likely keep coming back to over and over for another few runs at the arcade mode. We'd give Ape Out a strong recommendation to anyone looking for a distinct and unforgettable game for their Switch collection; it's a bit of an acquired taste, but this is well worth your time.
If nothing else, this is a game where you, a gorilla, can punch a man so hard that he crumbles into his constituent parts, and then pick up his arse and hoof it at one of his mates. I don’t know what else to tell you.
