The game only took me two and a half hours to beat, but you could spend considerably longer perusing the costume creator that pops up halfway through. The persona that emerges through my dialogue options and sartorial choices is more of a Marty McFly: a guitar-shredding virtuoso decked in a Buddy Holly outfit. I don’t quite have the pizazz of a Bowie. Its creator, the fabulously named Johnny Galvatron, describes it as what would happen if David Bowie had gone on a literal space trip to become Ziggy Stardust, and that seems about right. Impressively, this is one of the more rote happenings in The Artful Escape, a quest that also takes in astral highways, rock-powered butterflies and - steel yourself - a passive aggressive skiffle group. Or at least they do aboard the Cosmic Lung, an intergalactic concert hall overseen by a brainstem in a cloak voiced by Jason Schwartzman.

They call me the Slippery Matthew Castle. One man’s musical mission is an audio visual delight, but there’s not enough room for expression or mastery.

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