Siddhartha Barnhoorn made a space survival game feel genuinely lonely with this one. Out There's soundtrack is organized by star types and each set of tracks shifts the atmosphere completely. The Blue Giant trilogy builds from quiet ambient dread into something almost meditative.
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Garden Planet brings in Lara Ausensi's vocals and suddenly you're breathing real air after hours of vacuum silence. That contrast is devastating. The Black Hole track is exactly what you'd expect, heavy and gravitational, pulling everything inward.
What's clever is how the variations within each star class give you familiarity without repetition, like the game is teaching you to recognize where you are by sound alone. Play this if you want your space games to actually feel like deep space.