{"id":448484,"date":"2025-11-09T05:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2181737"},"modified":"2025-11-09T05:09:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T05:09:40","slug":"2021-in-review-spacing-out-with-the-artful-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/2021-in-review-spacing-out-with-the-artful-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 in review: Spacing out with The Artful Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021-in-review-spacing-out-with-the-artful-escape.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Hello! Over the next few days we&#8217;re going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something magical about stories that take place in the span of a day or two. It&#8217;s most often done in films, and they&#8217;re usually road trips or coming-of-age stories. One of my favourites is 2002&#8217;s Orange County, absent of all cynicism, where Colin Hanks&#8217; character has to decide what type of writer he wants to become while choosing which uni to go to.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-12-20-games-of-2021-spacing-out-with-the-artful-escape\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-12-20-games-of-2021-spacing-out-with-the-artful-escape\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! Over the next few days we&#8217;re going to be going back over some of our favourite games and moments and themes and whatnot from this very strange year. We hope you enjoy looking back with us! There&#8217;s something magical about stories that take place in the span of a day or two. 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