Dustin van Wyk wrote a puzzle game soundtrack that actually sounds like the feeling of recursion. Recursed is this brain-melting platformer about folding spaces inside themselves, and the music mirrors that with looping melodic structures that evolve without you noticing.
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"Woodlands" became so beloved it got three separate fan remixes on the official album, which says something. "Empty Ruins" sits in this contemplative ambient space that lets your brain work, while "Ascent" builds tension through layered progression.
Leeya Flanagan and Jasmine Cooper contributed tracks too, giving the score these shifts in compositional voice that keep it from feeling monotone. Fifteen tracks for a game about infinite loops. If you like puzzle games that respect silence as much as sound, this soundtrack gets it.