The Artful Escape

A teenage guitar prodigy sets out on a psychedelic journey to inspire his stage persona and confront the legacy of a dead folk legend. Starring voice performances by Michael Johnston, Caroline Kinley, Lena Headey, Jason Schwartzman, Mark Strong, and Carl Weathers.

The Artful Escape is a adventure, indie and music game developed by Beethoven and Dinosaur and published by Annapurna Interactive.
Released on September 09th 2021 is available only on Windows in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 1,576 reviews of which 1,455 were positive and 121 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 7.39€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Artful Escape into these genres:

Adventure Indie Music Psychedelic Story Rich Singleplayer Sci-fi Stylized Narrative Atmospheric Colorful Action 2D Comedy Walking Simulator Exploration Platformer Third Person Interactive Fiction Funny

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i3-540 | AMD FX-4350
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 650, 1 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 7 GB available space

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Dec. 2024

A musical and colorful coming-of-age game with dreamlike art design and some funny parts in the story, which is suitable for players who are NOT looking for the next big challenge in a game. The Artful Escape is a visual and sound design work of art to play. Dialogues are quite well written, with some quirky humor and the voice actors have done a great job as well. If you're looking for your an action shooter or horror adventure game, keep surfing, there are waves just waiting for you. If you've studied art or call yourself some kind of musician claiming you loved playing video games all your life but you're more a pessimist kind of person and a grump, do whatever you want, you're lost anyway. But if you're one of those open-minded ones, down for a different experience than usual, then the game can also be an Artfulf Escape for you as it was for me. Edit (12/14/2024) Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a young aspiring game developer, at one point he asked me what it was like playing video games when i was his age and what has changed the most. A question like that can be answered in many different ways but immediately I thought of two very specific things. It was so much more fun playing games with friends back then because we met in real life and hung out together, had some good times and we were much more relaxed, more open minded. Then I told him about a certain friend of mine with whom it seems impossible to find a game that we could both play online, all those proposals were shot down with comments like: "what kind of stupid game is this? nah that's weird! oh I don't know" Then I was asked what kinda games this friend was playing at the moment and I replied: GTA5 on Playstation and Supremacy 1914, Cities: Skylines and Sims 4 here on Steam, from which we could not draw any conclusions. Then he said that he doesn't think he's that open-minded either, he mostly plays action and shooter games and nothing else. So let's try something I said and since I knew that this young person is also learning to play the guitar, I mentioned The Artful Escape and asked if he would play something like that. He said no but now that we've talked about all of that, he wants to give it a try.

Sept. 2024

Got the platinum on playstation, 100% on xbox, now its steams turn. Ill never not listen to the soundtrack of this game (Banks of the river is just *chefs kiss*)

May 2024

Great art direction, soundtrack and voice acting. The gameplay its a little repetitive. The difficult its pretty low. Its main objetive its to drive the story forward.

March 2024

I felt this game irregular. There are 3 different type of gaming in it: 1. musical jams (reproduce musics with buttons): nice parts, no too hard; 2. meet and talk parts: a little boring, especially because the dialog choices have zero effect on the story; 3. the run/platform sequences: THE BEST PART OF THE GAME! It's definitively not hard, no dangers, no challenge, but it's beautiful, pleasant, like a dream: floating among the clouds in the space under a space battle, sliding in a snowy forest full of weird alien creatures that wake up with your music, crossing a futuristic strange city to escape from the anti-music police... I love these levels, also they are not a lot (about 5). But the game deserves to be played just because of them!

March 2024

Fun little game with some of the most unique aesthetics and awesome visuals I have seen in any media.

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Steam reviews	24 December 2024 03:50

-60% 18.49€ 7.39€

8.8

1,455

121

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Developer

Beethoven and Dinosaur

Publisher

Annapurna Interactive

Release 09 Sep 2021

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