Thick retro synths that sound like an NES got fed through a distortion pedal and woke up in a nightmare. Axiom Verge is a metroidvania across PS Vita, PS4, Switch, and PC, and the soundtrack is all Tom Happ doing everything himself.
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Trace Awakens builds from silence into this pulsing chip-adjacent buzz. Vital Tide grooves with a bassline that could carry a whole level. Cellular Skies opens into something almost beautiful before pulling back. The whole thing moves between alien dread and exploration wonder.
Inexorable and Apocalypse hit hard. Phosphene gets weird in the best way. Sounds like a lost transmission from a console that never existed. If you like your 2D exploration with audio that feels genuinely alien, start here.