For a game about a stretchy-necked deer destroying a city, this soundtrack goes unreasonably hard. DEEEER Simulator's music treats the absurdity with dead seriousness, and that contrast is what makes it land. "Battle for the future" sounds like it belongs in a mech anime, not a game where you can ride a cow into a police helicopter.
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"Koala" gets four versions -- full vocal, off vocal, off drum, and stripped of both -- which tells you the developers knew they had a banger and wanted you to hear every layer. Same treatment for "Ragnarok," the DEEEER Simulator version of which goes full apocalyptic while you're presumably flinging your deer body through buildings.
The Deathfight and Terminate tracks escalate across three phases each, matching the boss encounters' increasingly unhinged energy. "Neon Walk" brings it back down to street level with something almost chill, the soundtrack equivalent of wandering around causing low-stakes chaos.
Sixteen tracks for a joke game that clearly had a composer who refused to phone it in.