Apico (2022) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Apico

Apico is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees! Set in a series of lush environments, Apico uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames…

70 20 May 2022

What Apico is

Apico is an adventure game developed by ellraiser and released in 2022. It was published by Whitethorn Games. It is available on PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in a series of lush environments, APICO uniquely combines resource gathering, biology, and beekeeping minigames, taking ideas from a mix of real-life and fantasy apiculture & floriculture. On your journey you'll rediscover lost species, cross-breed new bees, and help repopulate the islands.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are kids, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Apico holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Apico launched on 20 May 2022, within three weeks of The Quarry, Citizen Sleeper, Sniper Elite 5 and Hardspace: Shipbreaker. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Quarry, Citizen Sleeper, Sniper Elite 5, Hardspace: Shipbreaker.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer