APICO Is A Sweet Farming Sim Full Of Bees

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APICO appeared out of nowhere, a bit like the only bee that has ever stung me. Developed by TNgineers, this sweet farming simulator is more about bees than potatoes and cows. On its surface, it wears its inspirations from Stardew Valley clearly on its suit, but beneath the pixelated aesthetic and soft soundtrack is an intense beekeeping simulator.

Things start out as you might expect: your grandparents are waiting on the dock of Port APICO, a place absolutely teeming with bees and beekeepers. Other than the monstrous swarms of bees everywhere, it’s largely a familiar story. You’re tired of your big-city job and want to escape to the countryside. Your grandfather gives you a workbench and an axe and sends you out to start cutting down all the trees in the village. No one blinks an eye.

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After you’ve cut down all the trees, the game instructs you to start pillaging beehives. There are dozens of them. Forest Bees, Common Bees, Verge Bees, these are just some of the little bee-friends you can encounter in the first hour. Here the game opens up into an almost overwhelming beekeeping simulator. Build apiaries and beehives and use slides to collect the bees and then cross-breed the bees to make new bees and plant flowers for the bees to pollinate and then collect more bees and more bees and more bees and…

I don’t know how many bees there are in APICO. I’m not sure how many combinations there are, or new species you can discover or cross-breed. ‘A lot’ is pretty much the closest figure I can give you. You can tell from the hugely empty beepedia in your inventory. I actually found the thing all a little daunting, which is not exactly the relaxation I was expecting. Once I found my