Cold, spacious electronic ambience with bursts of urgent sci-fi intensity. Enemy Mind is a 2015 PC shoot-em-up where you possess enemy ships, and the soundtrack nails that lonely-pilot-in-hostile-space feeling. "Stairs Into the Abyss" pulls you downward with slow, heavy tones, and "Absolute Zero" lives up to its name with this frozen, crystalline texture.
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Then "Snakes on a Spaceship" shows up in the tracklist and you realize the devs had a sense of humor about all this. The quieter pieces like "A Beginning" and "The True Nature of the Universe" give the score a philosophical weight that most shmup soundtracks skip entirely.
Even "Flappity Mind OST" tagged at the end keeps things weird. Part ambient record, part action score, part comedy. If you want something to play while staring at the stars and questioning things, Enemy Mind works.