Alex | Clare’s Escape
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Alex | Clare’s Escape
@n0seblunt.bsky.social
Creator of www.claresescape.com

Help real-life ‘peasant poet’ John Clare escape from a mental asylum and make his long walk home.

A narrative game exploring poverty, mental health and enclosure in Victorian England.

Working on: The Last Line of Defence
Lovely stuff, but after finishing Alien Clay just now, I’d like to see your take on a Nurgle army next please
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
But when his wife met him near home, he didn’t recognise her. He was convinced he’d married someone else, and they were alive and waiting. He never fully recovered.

By the end of 1841, he was declared ‘insane’ and committed to the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum

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July 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I love this! But feel like a ghost shouldn’t block at all, the light could fill them like a lantern
July 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
In the darkness he tried to find a more secure place to stay but became hopelessly lost. He stumbled across a toll booth where the attendant pointed him northwards again. Reassured that he was on the right track, he slept in a porch somewhere close to St Neots
July 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This map from Iain Sinclair’s ‘Edge of the Orison’ shows the likely route (dashed). Around 30 miles of walking
July 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Your post made me buy this. And it's amazingly weird. I don't know how I feel. But it is good.
July 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
June 17, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Also can
May 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Excellent work. The Thank Goodness one has been pre ordered!
May 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM