Darren Korb
Coral Crown gives me straight goosebumps often enough that its in my regular listening rotation outside of the game
Celeste OST is one of my favorites, Lena raine absolutely cooked
Instead of burning the music to the CD, he burned the CD
First answer to me is Chris Christodoulou, who did everything for Risk of Rain and Risk of Rain 2. The man knows how to let ambient vibes build to boss music
it’s unparalleled for me - just so immensely good.
Subnautica - Abandon Ship
Techtonica - almost all the tracks
Kristofer maddigan composing an entire fucking big band soundtrack for cuphead and recording it live:
So basically it’s Andrew Hulshult.
My music library is filling up with these awesome game soundtracks.
doseone is the most underrated producer for indie games. His “actual” music is fucking insane, as well.
Did you, reader, play
Enter the Gungeon
Gang Beasts
Escape Academy
Disc Room
Sludge Life
Orbitalis
Super Game Jam
Heavy Bullets
The Samurai Gunn
If so, DOSEONE SOUNDTRACK!
Check out his album with the late, great Alias - Less is Orchestra. It’s absolutely incredible.
No mention of Firewatch so I’ll be the first to say it, it caught me off gaurd how good it was.
Christopher Larkin moment
This is basically how Ixion went. The game didn’t need a soundtrack to go this hard, but it absolutely put it over the top.
One of my all time favorite OSTs for indie games would be Crosscode’s OST.
All the songs that Laura Shigihara has worked on are great too.
Jets’N’Guns
Rebel Galaxy
Hardspace ShipbreakerHm, space ship games…
