Ape Out - Nintendo Switch

Closed, opens at noonIndependent shop in University DistrictDirections

Available from HiFi LoFi when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Ape Out for the Nintendo Switch is a wildly intense top-down smash-'em-up published by Devolver Digital — a game about one thing: you are a gorilla, and you need to get out. Armed guards stand between you and freedom. Your only tools are your hands — grab them, throw them, use them as shields, smash them into walls. It is violent, it is fast, and it is beautiful. The gameplay is built on just two inputs — grab and smash — but the depth that emerges from them is remarkable. Every encounter demand