Heavy, distorted synth layers over something that sounds like the world stopped breathing. Starry Studio's Once Human pulls from a team of composers including Ye Kaifan and Huang Yue to score a post-apocalyptic survival world contaminated by alien Stardust, and the music absolutely sells the dread.
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"Forsaken Giant" builds with this oppressive scale that makes boss encounters feel massive, and "Bloody Rust" grinds with industrial textures that match the decayed environments. "Stardust" opens with something almost beautiful before "Fallen in Stardust" twists it darker.
Fourteen tracks of tension and corrupted atmosphere. If you've been exploring Once Human's open world and wondering why every new sector makes your skin crawl, the soundtrack is doing exactly what it's supposed to.