Decarnation is a French psychological horror game about a dancer named Gloria trapped in nightmarish versions of her own memories, and this soundtrack -- titled "Cauchemar" (Nightmare) -- crawls under your skin accordingly.
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The title track sets the unsettling tone immediately, while "Reveries de Gloria" offers brief moments of dreamlike beauty before everything goes sideways again. "Disembodied Nightmare" and "The Cell" are pure dread, using dissonant textures and uneasy ambient layers that make you feel genuinely trapped.
"Fragments Of a Broken Mind" fractures its own melodic ideas in ways that mirror Gloria's psychological unraveling, and "Basement Voice" is the kind of track that makes you want to pause the game and check if that sound came from your actual basement.
"Chased By a Demon" delivers the pulse-pounding terror the title promises, but the album's real strength is in the quieter devastation of tracks like "Cracks In The Mask" and "La Princesse." "Echoes From The Underground" closes things out with lingering unease that stays with you.
The French-language touches throughout give the whole soundtrack a distinctive identity that sets it apart from the usual indie horror fare.