3.5/5 ★ – hunkypet's review of Apotheon.

A complete surprise. I have had a long and frustrating history with Apotheon. I had tried to play it on numerous occasions over the years of its initial release, If I recall it was a PS PLUS game late 2013, early 2014. I was Initially put off by a genre at the time I hadn’t ventured into and immaturely disregarded it. Then I tried on multiple occasions to retry as I matured but I had save errors and crashes. Finally, i sat down in 2020 and beat it and frankly loved it. Once you become invested it’s very hard to put this game down, it’s a challenging and beautiful Metroidvania that anyone who is a fan of these types of games should play. Sadly I did encounter 2 crashes and loss of a save file where I lost an hours worth of my play, many years after its release I don’t think it will be getting a patch to sort. If not for the bugs and issues this game would sit as an 4/4.5 out of 5. If you can look past the problems and accept you may have a bumpy road, it’s well worth it Played on PS4