Gentle piano notes drifting over the sound of water lapping against a hull. FAR: Changing Tides is that quiet post-apocalyptic sailing game and the soundtrack nails the loneliness of crossing a drowned world. "Open Sea" stretches out with minimal instrumentation that makes you feel impossibly small.
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"Abandoned City" layers in melancholy as you pass through places where people used to live. "Tsunami" breaks the calm with urgency and raw survival energy before "Survived" brings you back down. The dynamic range across the album mirrors the gameplay perfectly.
"Frozen Cave" and "Ship Graveyard" push into darker, more claustrophobic territory. There's always this sense of pressing forward because there's nothing behind you anymore. For anyone who finds peace in sad, beautiful games about being the last one moving.