APICO Reviews

you will hate crafting for the first 10 hours. then after that you will love it. other than that i love the bees.

i love bees and silly games this is perfect

I love everything about this game! I played it together with my husband and we 100% it, that's how much we loved it! - very chill gameplay, nothing is rushed and you can do everything in any order you like (you can even just stand still anywhere and nothing bad will happen) - there's an accessibility menu where you can turn off certain aspects of the game that might start feeling a bit grindy after a while (certain machines will go automatically, bees will mutate faster,....) - there's a lot to do but you won't get overwhelmed because you can do everything step by step (or you can do everything at once if that's your thing) - bees! - expansive guidebooks with funny texts - you can change almost everything in the environment, a bit like in Minecraft - there's even automation later in the game - funny Easter eggs

I'm going to recommend this game, with a caveat. I absolutely adore this game. It is a game that very much feels made for a specific kind of person, and that's me. But there in lies the rub. Apico is a very rewarding and satisfying game to learn and play, discovering all the bees, and then those goals grow into other ecological and environmental goals such as saving butterflies, cleaning the oceans, repairing the reefs and so on. However, the one thing you need to be wary of when coming into this game is it WILL overwhelm you at first. You are allowed to take as much time as you want, but it frontloads a LOT of information to the player, and introduces a lot of machines basically immediately that do various single functions and it can become very messy very quickly. But. If you can get through that learning period, or better yet, enjoy that learning period, and get into your bee groove, this game is fantastic. I love it, as a bee enthusiast. So I will recommend it, just be aware of what you're getting yourself into.

Ultimately I would recommend this game, but only if you really like games that make you grind, and/or if you have a strong nostalgia for the old beekeeping mod from Minecraft. When I say grind, I don't just mean having to go out and chop trees for wood, rocks for stone, and harvest hives for honey; I mean even in the UI. Do you want to scrape a frame from a hive in order to get both honey and byproducts to sell? You will need to literally pull down a scraping button in the UI. Want to saw wood into planks? You will need to move and twist a UI element in a circle. It is like this for quite literally everything. The ultimate goal in the game, as I saw it, wasn't to collect all the different bees, butterfly species, and flowers, but to get to the automated crafting stations. As soon as I saw how long it would take me to get there, I stopped being interested in this game. I don't mind grinding out hundreds of breeding bee pairs in order to get a new type of species to advance the game. I don't mind collecting wood, leaves, and other items to feed butterflies to get more caterpillars, or collecting a bunch of flowers and seeds to try and crossbreed them. That stuff is pretty fun, and if you focus on that, then this game can be great. Unfortunately, there is a heavy grind to all of that to begin with, and if that was everything, I think that might be ok. But when you have to individually saw each log into a plank by clicking and dragging the UI element back and forth three times, or have to keep the honey harvesting device constantly spinning for it to work, that is where I draw the line. I can see some people getting a lot of enjoyment out of this game; and I did enjoy it for about 20 hours or so. After that, I tried to keep going, but just couldn't do it. I would give this game a very lukewarm recommendation. I really want to like it and keep playing, but I just can't bring myself to do it. If you are going to buy this game, either try the demo and see how you feel about all the mechanics. I didn't try it unfortunately, so I don't quite know how far it goes; but you should be able to see what I am talking about in it. If you don't want to try the demo and just get right into the game, I would highly recommend that you do not get it at full price; wait for a sale.

super fun, very addicting in that i played like, 5 hours in one sitting and only put it down because it was 3:30am and i needed to go to sleep. the mechanics are fun, i just wish i had my mouse with me

The game is really cute and really interesting. The dialog is clever and fun. This is the ideal game if you are someone who really loved cross breeding all the flowers in Animal Crossing. It's less of a management game and more of a breeding game. The amount of available resources was overwhelming, as I kept running out of storage for all my stuff and I was only 3 hours into the game. If you love Punnett Squares and finding variants, this is the game for you!

Relaxing little farming life game with a surprisingly huge amount of depth to the mechanics.

This game is for a very specific kind of people. I personally think it's fun but for the subset of people who like games that are grindy and one that you take at your own pace it's wonderful. Pros: - I really like the pixel art style and it's really pretty. And the music is peaceful. - The puzzle solving to breed specific kinds of bee is fun, engaging, and challenging in the good way. - I can be not a human character. :) - I like the autosort. Silly but important to me. Cons (kind of): - shits confusing man. theres a LOT of moving parts (so to speak) in the early to mid game. - this is a person to person con but for me, having ADD really makes it hard to stay on task and i do 15 things at once while getting 3 done. you'll get it done but you'll constantly have that feeling of "wait what was I doing? (1 hour 45 minutes later) OMG i forgot i was in the middle of breeding this bee and got distracted by making honey-soda and rebuilding the coral reef" skissue on my part but if you're like me this is the general play experience. dont get me wrong, I LIKE IT! I like the game. thank the hivemother for wikis

I've been playing this game non-stop with my girlfriend, who says its the best game that I've ever gifted her. This is a very unique and original game unlike the over-saturation of farming sims that we both grew tired of. I'd say Apico a very good game for couples, and I would really recommend this for those looking to play a cozy game with their partner. It additionally has a lot of content, which makes this game very good value.