Children's choir voices drifting over orchestral tension, like someone set a horror film inside a church recital. Olivier Deriviere's debut game score for ObsCure mixed the Vienna Symphony Library with recordings of the Paris National Opera Children's Choir, and the result is genuinely unsettling.
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"Empty School" lets those young voices echo through hollow reverb until the silence itself becomes threatening. "The First Queen" builds layered string dread that owes more to French cinema than typical survival horror. Then the bonus track drops a SUM 41 intro on you, because it was 2004 and that is just how things worked.
The contrast between Deriviere's compositional craft and that punk rock bookend is honestly charming. If you think horror game music peaked with Resident Evil, look further.