APICO
Worth it · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99.
- Length
- 47.2h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 92% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: Intel HD Integrated, 246 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 31 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 65 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 90 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Two Point Museum ($29.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Aquarist ($15.99, scores 59).
This site sampled 432 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 142 reviews written there were positive, against 92 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
The drop-off
85% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Adorable and lots of things to do so you aren't always doing the same thing on repeat. Dev answers super quick about bugs and stuff too.
I really wanted to like it. I tried. I think many things about the game are nice. The bees are cute. The bee breeding is nice, and the inclusion of other bugs. The overall style is cute The part that's hard is that the general gameplay is tedious. You craft many machines to process bee products but the automation doesn't help that much. You have to spend SO MUCH TIME moving things between machines and then crafting...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
APICO scores 83/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1390190/apicoReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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