Big orchestral stabs compressed down to iPad speakers and somehow still hitting. Civilization Revolution on iOS brought that whole empire-building weight into your hands back in 2009. "Opening Menu" has this triumphant brass that makes you feel like you already won before placing your first city.
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"Ancient Calm" is where you live for the first hundred turns, this low rumble of strings and woodwinds while you figure out where to put your warriors. Then "Ancient Combat" kicks in and suddenly you're sweating over a barbarian village.
The way it splits every era into Calm, Agitated, and Combat moods means the music is always reading the room... Fire this up if you need to feel like a world leader during your lunch break.