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About this game

The Artful Escape is an action-adventure game with light rhythm game elements developed by Indie studio Beethoven and Dinosaur, step into the shoes of Francis Vendetti a young musician struggling to find his voice being overshadowed by his uncle’s legacy as a local folk music legend. To make sure that his first stage performance is a success you must embark on a psychedelic adventure to make a new stage persona, journey to stolen opera houses, musical alien landscapes, and the impossible depths of your cosmic imagination.

• Featuring the voice performances of Michael Johnston, Lena Headey (game of thrones), Jason Schwartzman (Fantastic Mr. Fox, Rushmore), Mark Strong, and Carl Weathers.
• Customize and craft your very own stage persona from your vague sci-fi backstory to the size and trim of your moon boots.
• Talk to, seek advice, chill with all manners of beings from disenchanted publicans, nostalgic village people, giant alien wildlife, and creatures that bend reality itself.
• Travel across the multiverse: shred your guitar and dance to your continent in landscapes made of sound, that changes based on your movement as if the world itself were your instrument.

REVIEWS

As I said up top, The Artful Escape may not sound like much on paper. Its individual pieces aren’t anything special. But mix them together, and you’ve got an amazing creation, and one of the best games of the year.

Gaming Age

The Artful Escape is a thrill. It’s true that the most joyous bits of action are underused – in terms of both playtime and what they could give the story – and some scarce but present graphical issues on Switch are a shame. Overall, though, the strengths are major, the niggles minor, and it will strike a chord with any pipe-dreaming rock star.

Nintendo Life