Jim Guthrie and JJ Ipsen built a soundtrack that sounds like a music box slowly becoming aware of its own mortality. Reigns: Her Majesty's 2017 score uses plucked strings, muted percussion, and delicate synth textures to accompany a card-swiping game about ruling and dying across centuries.
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"Shadows in the Throne Room" layers these hollow, reverberant tones that feel like empty hallways at midnight. "Tick Tock Mother Clock" has a mechanical rhythm that's genuinely unsettling beneath its simplicity. "The March of Centuries" carries this quiet grandeur that makes centuries of queenship feel lonely rather than powerful.
Guthrie's signature warmth is here but filtered through something darker and more contemplative. Play this when you want indie game music that actually haunts you a little.