APICO
meanwhile, in an alternate universe…
the Game
APICO is a laid-back beekeeping sim game about breeding, collecting, & conserving bees!
Leave your boring city job behind to return to your family home in Port APICO and get back to your beekeeping roots.
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.
- Live out your wildest beekeeping fantasies – sting free!
- Unique crafting & beekeeping minigames that drive gameplay progression
- Cross-breed different bees to discover over 30 new species
- Make and sell honey, Apicola, and other beekeeping products
- Repopulate lost species and release them back into the wild
- Multiple biomes to explore, each with their own unique bee species
- Uncover the forgotten secrets of the APICO islands
- Play together with friends in 4 player online co-op!
- Completed the game but buzzing for more? Try modding!
APICO is being created by the TNgineers, two brothers – Ell & Jamie, inspired by their love of casual and crafting games.
They wanted to make something relaxing, intriguing, and semi-educational (just don’t think about the magical bees). Ell builds nice things and Jamie makes sure he breaks them.
Bees are integral to our gameplay, as they are to our real-world ecosystem. We want to promote bee conservation and will be donating a portion of the money we make towards national and international bee, beekeeping, & wild bee conservation charities.
You can also find other ways to help do you part on our website @ post regular updates of our development progress on both Twitter, Discord, and Ko-Fi as well as important announcements, stupid GIFs, cute pics of bees – what more could you want?
Steam User 89
If you liked forestry from Minecraft you'll like this.
Steam User 41
APICO is an amazing game but only for a very specific crowd. It took me 2 tries and multiple weeks in between to finally get into it. Everything in APICO is very complex - from crafting to breeding, to collecting all possible species of bees, flowers and butterflies. I genuinely apprehciate everything the game has to offer but even I think that it is very overwhelming at times. The game wants more and more from you and at some point it will become too much. Eventually the conditions for breeding bees or finding butterflies become very very specific and it becomes a chore to fulfil them. This is quite sad as it makes this game feel more like work than fun.
I majored in biologie in school and had a special interest in genetics, and i still somewhat struggle with the breeding mechanic in APICO. In theory it is easy but with more specific conditions success becomes more and more luck-based and time intensive to get somewhere. Even for the easier "assignments" you often have to try multiple times to get results, which is sometimes quite annoying if every breeding cycle takes a chunk to time.
You have to be really into the grind and theory of the game in order to want to play it for longer, so while i want to recommend it, i also think that people should be fully aware of what they are getting.
Steam User 41
This situation has only been made better by the addition of yet more bees
Steam User 45
While I really recommend Apico, you should really understand what you are buying before purchasing it. This is an extremely in depth management game with the skin of a casual title. It's cute and looks simple, but this is not a casual game.
Apico is an incredibly in depth management game laced with biology. It has copious amounts of content and is decievingly complicated. While I totally praise the game for this, and it is really enjoyable, I bought it thinking it was a casual bee keeping game with open world building mechanics.
Apico is NOT a casual game! It is highly time consuming to learn and can be quite difficult once you get into your bees having dominant and recessive genes and attempting to breed bees for different reasons including increased productivity, temperature resistance, and time of day they are active.
The game looks casual but it is far from it. It's an awesome title if you're looking to sink dozens and dozens of hours into researching what bees to breed and their genetics, but if you're looking for a casual game Apico is the last thing you should buy!
Steam User 36
If you, like me, enjoyed playing with bee breeding in the Forestry mod for Minecraft, you're going to love APICO.
That should be all the reason you need to add it to your wishlist (or your cart), honestly. If you need more, try:
- Adorable pixel art
- Devs who super care about the game and are still releasing content updates a year after release
- Chill vibes and laid-back goals to complete in your own time
- Bee puns. So many bee puns!
Now go! Bee the best beekeeper you can bee!
Steam User 30
I love this game.
Do you like collecting critters in animal crossing or pokemon or anything like that? Play this.
Do you like bees? Play this. How about bee puns? Play this.
Do you like genetics (even a slightly watered-down-easy-for-the-layman version)? Play this.
The community is amazing, the music is lovely, the graphics and story are charming. Apico very very quickly became one of my favorite games, so the point where I made a MASSIVE spreadsheet tracker for it (yes that same one the devs have shared all over, the link is also at the bottom of this review). 10/10, beeutiful.
Spreadsheet here <3
Steam User 49
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