Dark, creeping ambient tension that keeps checking behind you. Contagion is a 2015 Windows zombie co-op shooter, and the soundtrack lives in that paranoid space between encounters. "Lurking" does exactly what the name says with slow, low-frequency dread, "Frenzy" erupts into chaotic percussion when everything goes wrong, and "Forsaken Piano" is just a lonely instrument echoing through empty rooms.
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The pacing mirrors a real survival run. "Band Together" gives you cooperative energy, then "Behind You" yanks it away. "The Crawler" and "The Escape" play like a two-part nightmare you can't wake from. That track called "Sleep" at the very end.
As if you could after all that. If you play zombie games with headphones in the dark and want music that actually earns the anxiety, queue this up.