Escape String is an arcade, released 26 October 2022 on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
What Escape String is
Escape String was released in 2022. It was published by 7 Raven Studios. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Escape String, is a 2D puzzle game set in an undefined time and place. A small humanoid robot wakes up in the debris of a landfill inside a large factory. He receives strange and enigmatic messages, from someone who apparently wants to help him. The robot's purpose is to explore the large factory where he is in search of answers about who he and his mysterious remote helper are. The player does not control the robot directly and in real time, but inserts movement commands above its display in order to tell the robot when it is time to jump, to crouch and more. It is therefore a puzzle game based on perspective: the player must calculate the spaces between the robot and the obstacles. The…
How it plays
It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Escape String launched on 26 October 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. It arrived 9 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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