Ape Out
- Developer
- Gabe Cuzzillo
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- 28 February 2019
- Age rating
- PEGI N/A
- UK price
- £12.79
Platforms: PC, macOS, Nintendo Switch
Genres: fighting , hack and slash beat em up , adventure , indie , arcade
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.
Best gaming PC for Ape Out in 2026
Full buyers guide →Below are the four PC tiers we'd actually recommend for Ape Out today. These are our 2026 hardware picks, not the dated publisher minimums you'll find on Steam.
Budget
£7991080p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 5 7600
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
- RAM
- 16 GB
- Storage
- 1TB NVMe SSD
Mid-tier
£1,2991440p · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
High-end
£1,7991440p · 144fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB
- RAM
- 32 GB
- Storage
- 2TB NVMe SSD
Enthusiast
£3,4994K · 60fps
- CPU
- AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB
- RAM
- 64 GB
- Storage
- 4TB NVMe SSD
Official system requirements
These are the minimum and recommended specs as published by Devolver Digital on Steam. They tend to be conservative — usually "what ran the game at 1080p when it shipped". For what you should actually buy in 2026, see the tier cards above.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 x64 | Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 x64 |
| CPU | Intel Core2 Duo E4500 (2 * 2200) or equivalent | Intel Core i3-2100 (2 * 3100) or equivalent |
| RAM | 2 GB | 4 GB |
| GPU | GeForce 9600 GT (512 MB) | GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1024 MB) |
| Storage | 2 GB | 2 GB |
| DirectX | 11 | 11 |
Verified 18 May 2026 against the Steam store page.
Can your PC run Ape Out?
If your CPU is roughly equivalent to Intel Core i3-2100 (2 * 3100) and your GPU is at or above GeForce GTX 550 Ti (1024 MB), you'll hit recommended settings at 1080p/60. For 1440p or higher, see the tier picks above.