One of the foundational walking simulator soundtracks, and still one of the best. Jessica Curry's score for Dear Esther is built on layered strings and piano that feel like grief given physical form — like walking through someone's memory of a place they can never return to.
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The "Remember" tracks recur across the album attributed to different characters — Donnelly, Paul, Jakobson, Esther — each one revisiting the same emotional core from a different angle. It's a compositional structure that mirrors the game's fragmented narration perfectly.
"I Have Begun My Ascent" and "Ascension" bookend the journey from shore to summit. "This Godforsaken Aerial" is the turning point where beauty curdles into something desperate. The Hebridean landscape is as much a character as anyone named in the track list, and Curry scores it like a love letter written in fog.