Piano keys falling like rain in a cavern you forgot existed. Hollow Knight's soundtrack is the emotional backbone of the entire bug kingdom. City of Tears is literally just sadness in audio form, the kind of track that makes you stop playing and stand there.
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Dirtmouth starts so gentle you almost forget everything underground is trying to kill you. Then Mantis Lords kicks in and suddenly you are locked in. The way it shifts between lonely ambient stretches and intense boss themes is wild.
Christopher Larkin wrote this for a small indie game and accidentally made one of the best scores on Switch and PC. Something about the quiet parts hits harder than the loud ones. If you ever wanted to feel wrecked by a game about a little bug, press play.