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

The Artful Escape will appeal to anybody who has struggled with creativity, but also anybody who might want a hopeful story about self-actualization. It helps that it’s a vibrant good time.

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The Artful Escape is a story about legacies, finding yourself, change, and transition that presents itself in such an ingenious way that all can absolutely enjoy it. Gliding across the cosmos, playing electric guitar in unknown lands, and eventually vanquishing a divine complication with intricate audio design and superb music to accompany – it’s perplexing how captivating this interstellar adventure is.

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