APE OUT
Worth it · Action · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99, a BANGER if it drops to $6.44.
- Length
- 2.2h
- Value
- $6.81/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $2.99, set in June 2024. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 60 in the 8 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $6.44 BANGER line 38 times.
Value puts it in the top 2 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number ($14.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats The Hong Kong Massacre ($19.99, scores 24).
The press gave it 83; the people who bought it give it 95 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 26 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 460 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 1,619 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 44 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 2.2 hours. Doing everything runs 10, 4.3 times as long.
At 2.2 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
60% start to 26% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Cite this score
APE OUT scores 70/100 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/447150/ape-outReviews 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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