Eric Chahi's Another World, known as Out of This World in North America, is one of the most influential cinematic platformers ever made, and this 2017 official soundtrack release finally gives the music a proper standalone presentation.
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The original 1991 Amiga score was groundbreaking for its time, using sparse, atmospheric sound design that felt more like a film than a game. "Captive" and "Escape" capture the desperate early moments of Lester Knight Chahi's alien abduction, while "Brief Respite" offers those rare seconds of safety that made survival feel earned.
The tracklist reads like a speedrun of emotions. "Confined Space" is claustrophobic and tense, "Cold Echo" is exactly the lonely alien architecture it describes, and "Citadel" builds the kind of imposing dread that the game's later stages demanded.
"Uncertain Flight" and "Fluid Movement" carry the momentum of those iconic chase sequences, while "Oppression" weighs heavy with the alien civilization's brutality. Every track is lean, no padding, just pure atmosphere. The inclusion of both the original Amiga versions and the 2004 Windows remaster versions of the intro and ending themes is a thoughtful touch for a game that has been re-released across nearly every platform imaginable.
Even the "Diskload [Amiga]" track is here, a piece of loading-screen music that became iconic in its own right. For a game that told its entire story without dialogue, the music had to do everything, and thirty years later, it still does.