Dark piano notes dropping into cold silence. Leviathan: The Last Day of the Decade is a 2016 Windows adventure game with a soundtrack split between composers Mikhail Kotov and Alexander Dmitriev, and you can feel both personalities pulling in different directions.
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"Mother's Theme" by Kotov has this aching simplicity to it. "Ritual" by Dmitriev pushes into uncomfortable territory, all tension and ceremony. Then "Chiptune Opening" by Dmitriev and Pigasov flips everything on its head, throwing retro 8-bit sounds into what was otherwise a somber atmospheric score.
"My childhouse, my childhood" and "Lost memories" share this nostalgic ache, while "Death" and "Live" sit right next to each other on the tracklist like the game is daring you to feel something. For anyone who plays narrative adventure games and wants the soundtrack to feel genuinely unsettling.