Games like APE OUT
If APE OUT is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Bloodroots and The Hong Kong Massacre — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its writing quality is exceptional, atmospheric and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →APE OUT is a 2019 action indie game developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy, and Maxi Boch, published by Devolver Digital, available for $14.99. The game features fast-paced combat, procedural level generation, and tactical positioning as a primate escapes through violent encounters in a stylized top-down environment. Players describe the experience as both atmospheric and emotional, while reviewers have highlighted that the gameplay is both challenging and rewarding. The game supports short play sessions as solo-only content and is verified to run on Steam Deck. The title holds a Metacritic score of 83 and maintains a 95% positive rating from over 2400 Steam reviews, combining intense action with a dynamic jazz soundtrack and a distinctive visual presentation.
About APE OUT: APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.
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Steam players who put hours into APE OUT also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
WHY THIS
Top pick for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
Bloodroots
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with APE OUT.
Second-strongest match for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
The Hong Kong Massacre
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with APE OUT.
Third-strongest match for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
Bad Business
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Ranked #4 for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Bad Business is an extremely challenging top-down tactical shooter game where Mr. Bunny Rabbit, a hitman for the Mob, has been tasked to neutralize the rival Gang. A hard task for any organization, an impossible task for a hitman.
Samurai Wish
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Based on the japanese folklore of the "wish trees", become a member of the Wishmakers' Clan. Defeat your enemies brutally with your katana or your shurikens to fulfill people's dreams.
Suit for Hire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with APE OUT.
Ranked #6 for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Suit for Hire is a challenging action shooter, tactically blend weapons and martial arts together to unleash beautifully crafted violence.
Bullet Noir
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
In the vengeance business, you leave no loose ends. Four characters scour the city, searching for their mentor's murderer in a brutal ballet of bullets. Stylish neo-noir top-down shooter with one-hit-one-kill mechanics.
One Finger Death Punch 2
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning and a challenging mood with APE OUT.
Ranked #8 for APE OUT fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
The world's fastest brawler is back. Experience cinematic kung-fu in the most epic stickman fighter ever made. Staying true to the original, you play with only two buttons. Every press matters, do not button mash!
Reviewers mention these as similar to APE OUT
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CARRION
WHY THIS
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.
Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with APE OUT.
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Mark of the Ninja
WHY THIS
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation. Marked with cursed tattoos giving you heightened senses, every situation presents you with options.
Door Kickers
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with APE OUT.
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Door Kickers is an innovative realtime strategy game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team and lets you command them during a tactical intervention.
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
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Shares a challenging mood with APE OUT.
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with APE OUT.
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines is a real-time tactics game set in World War II that puts you in command of a small squad of elite troopers. Send them behind enemy lines on a series of hazardous missions, and bring them back alive.
Gunpoint
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with APE OUT.
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind
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Shares an atmospheric mood with APE OUT.
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
Peaky Blinders: Mastermind is a puzzle-adventure game, based on the multi-award-winning TV show. Become the Mastermind as you control key characters and pull off perfectly synchronized plans.
Weird West: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Reviewers of APE OUT cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Survive and unveil the mysteries of the Weird West through the intertwined destinies of its unusual heroes in an Action RPG from the co-creators of Dishonored and Prey.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below APE OUT at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Action with APE OUT.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Action with APE OUT.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under APE OUT on Steam right now. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with APE OUT.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with APE OUT.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with APE OUT.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
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Frequently asked about APE OUT
- Is APE OUT verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — APE OUT is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does APE OUT cost?
- APE OUT is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to APE OUT?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside APE OUT are Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, Bloodroots, The Hong Kong Massacre.
- Who developed APE OUT?
- APE OUT was developed by Gabe Cuzzillo, Bennett Foddy, Maxi Boch and published by Devolver Digital.
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