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Apex

Arjan van Meerten · Wevr, Inc · 2017-10-19

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Co-operative

Releases: Oct 19, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 2017 (Arcade)

The stunning new experience from the brilliant imagination of artist and musician Arjan van Meerten, Apex delivers a surrealistic and darkly beautiful apocalyptic vision set to an original score in the anticipated follow up to Van Meerten's Surge.

Apex is a 2017 Casual, Indie game priced at $2.99, with a Mostly Positive review sentiment (75% of 44 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-07

75%
positive of 44 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$2.99
steam price (US)

The city of Canvendish is on red alert : a giant cybernetic monkey has settled on top of one of its tallest towers. The APE-X laboratory is gathering an army of drones to get its creature back and reestablish order in town, but this monster named Big Mike will show superhuman strength and counter this plan.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 29,168 Casual games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520172026Week of 2017-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsTracked Controller SupportVR OnlyFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Census log

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