Apricity

Apricity is a top-down shooter designed for play with friends. You fight enemies using one of 11 character classes, each with a different weapon, passive ability and two activated abilities. Classes interact differently with enemy types and items, and each has a special relationship with the Heat system.

Heat and combat

Dealing damage builds Heat. At 100% Heat, you become HOT and attack faster. After a few seconds without dealing damage, Heat drops to 0 almost instantly. Reloading is a special action rather than a limit on how often you can fire your primary weapon: it conserves Heat and recharges your abilities. If you are injured, reloading instead expends your Heat to heal you rapidly.

Enemies drop orbs when they die; these heal you and recharge your abilities. Deciding whether to retreat and reload or keep firing in the hope of healing from an orb is part of combat.

Game modes

In Adventure, you make choices in a text adventure between combats. Winning combats means success in the adventure, whose ultimate goal is to destroy Catrapos. Endless is a score-attack mode that also appeals to single-player players.