The Artful Escape

"The Artful Escape is a wonderful audiovisual experience with a lot of great moments and a intense story. If you like this types of games, you should try it."

"The Artful Escape is a short but oh-so-sweet platformer that will have you bopping to its impossibly catch beats and transfixed by its beauty"

"Rock opera and space opera meet for some artful escapism."

"The Artful Escape provides a strong narrative adventure focused on self-discovery, identity, and expression that musicians, artists, and just about anyone can find something to relate to. While the experience stumbles a bit due to some dull platforming areas, the …"

"The Artful Escape is a tender look at creativity and finding your voice coated in outlandish visuals, an electrifying soundtrack, and a ton of lasers."

"While The Artful Escape does a strong job with its presentation and sense of style, it still suffers the same drawbacks as most adventure games, particularly with the boring-at-best game mechanics."

"A lurid and generous trip through the iconography of seventies rock."

"The Artful Escape is a bold and beautiful trip through the cosmos, featuring a killer soundtrack and a thrilling space adventure."

"The Artful Escape is a hard to define game. Light platform and rhytm&s;n&s;game elements are diluted inside a narrative driven gameplay that tasks the player with life and artistic choices. While the gameplay is bent to the main thematic of …"

"Unmissable for Xbox Game Pass subscribers, and absolutely recommended for everyone else, The Artful Escape of Francis Vendetti tells with irony and intelligence the path of artistic and inner growth of a talented teenage musician. Through the celestial bodies of …"

"The Artful Escape is a powerful and aesthetically wonderful generational hymn, which sounds great and uses gameplay as a subtle way to give rhythm to a short, but intense, experience."

"The Artful Escape is an enigmatic coming of age story, wrapped in reverb-laden riffs and space opera shenanigans. It is quite unique, and absolutely unmissable."

"The Artful Escape tells a heartfelt story of artistic self-discovery through a filter of color, light, sound, and joy. Combining gonzo sci-fi imagery with blaring space-rock guitar chords, The Artful Escape is a playable concept album – or at least …"

"The adventure does ultimately end up being a worthwhile one, with interesting characters, an incredible art style, and great music. But if there were more to the gameplay, the game – and its world – could have offered so much …"

"It won&s;t challenge your platforming skills, and the action boils down to galactic Simon Says, but The Artful Escape is a gorgeous experience that makes you feel utterly cool"

"‎The Artful Escape is a game expected by many, including myself. We are facing a different title and that is not for all ‎‎audiences, but if you really like music you must try it, since I do not remember trying …"

"At the end of The Artful Escape, all I could think of were the words he fired back at a heckler, angered by the electricity in the air: I don’t believe you."

"The Artful Escape may not have particularly deep or challenging gameplay, but the main reason to attend this show is its incredible writing and Francis&s; trippy, out-of-this-world journey in discovering his new persona, one which features a lot of nifty …"

"Beethoven &a; Dinosaur&s;s musical odyssey across the universe isn&s;t as adventurous with its gameplay as its venues, but that doesn&s;t stop The Artful Escape from being a fun ride."

"For such a visually boisterous experience, The Artful Escape feels more like a chilly museum after closing hours."

"A cosmic rock voyage of self-discovery that doesn&s;t folk about, The Artful Escape is a truly unique experience and a feast for the senses."

"The Artful Escape is by turns psychedelic, moving, exultant, and lovely. The central metaphor of a young performer bringing fantastic new worlds into existence through the art of music is a powerful one, and while the theme of a struggling …"

"The Artful Escape is a visual and audio masterpiece that creates a sincere narrative that gives hope to any struggling would-be artist that they will find their own voice at the end of a tough journey. As good as that …"

"The Artful Escape perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being transported away by a David Bowie track to a far-out world filled with colorful characters and wildlife and great music, but its gameplay falls flat, offering little depth past its first …"

"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 …"

"The Artful Escape has a stellar narrative with actual good humour enhanced by the voice acting talent and beautiful landscapes, but the gameplay is stale and those who dislike electric guitar are in for a long haul."

"An eye-popping musical adventure that will leave you with a serious case of galaxy brain."

"The Artful Escape is a thrill. It&s;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 …"

"You play a young guitarist exploring your prog-rock ambitions to the full in this richly enjoyable psychedelic journey"

"Annapurna Interactive has a staggering back catalogue, but 2021 has frankly not been great for the publisher. Last Stop failed to leave any kind of impact, Maquette is a game with Bryce Dallas Howard in it and not much else, …"

"Ultimately, The Artful Escape is so stellar in terms of both character building and narrative"

"The Artful Escape takes you on a trip with Francis into the cosmos, marrying music and visuals into a beautiful gameplay experience. Small things pop up a time or two, but absolutely nothing keeps The Artful Escape from being entertainment …"

"There hasn&s;t been a guitar-based adventure as excellent as The Artful Escape since Bill met Ted."

"The Artful Escape is a rockin&s; Space Opera but it doesn&s;t have much going for it besides its pretty visuals and incredible music. The platforming is basic and the plot is serviceable, but it&s;s nothing that audiences haven&s;t seen before. …"