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15:55, 28th March 2024 (GMT+0)

It's a Madhouse

Apes Victorious is a role-playing game in which players take on the roles of humans (often astronauts) from the past who find themselves marooned on this upside-down world in which apes occupy the highest rung on the evolutionary ladder.

In this setting just prior to when the world was destroyed in the 1970s, humans had made great advances in space travel and cryonics.  A space drive that could propel small ships at speeds just below the speed of light had been developed, and scientific crews had been sent to numerous candidate solar systems to scout for habitable worlds.  The main problem with this endeavor was that some of these journeys would take many years for the astronauts to complete.  Some might return in decades, others in hundreds of
years.  Cryonics ensured that the astronauts would not die of old age on longer missions, but there was no guarantee humans would be around to colonize a newly discovered world even if one were found.
 Nonetheless, the effort was deemed worthy due to concerns of overpopulation and global conflict.

The players may take the roles of returning astronauts, delayed by unforeseen circumstances, who land on what they initially think must be an alien planet.  Alternatively, the players could take the roles of humans who have been in cryogenic slumber since just before the nuclear war.  They awaken from long-forgotten bunkers only to discover that the world has healed, but it is as foreign as an alien world.

This game was written by Daniel Proctor and published by Goblinoid Games.  It is his personal homage to the Planet of the Apes movies, TV series, and Animated series of the late 60s and early 70s.  The games system is based of his Labyrinth Lord role-playing game, and is compatible with it and his Mutant Future and Starships & Spacemen games as well.