This soundtrack does something wild where it shapeshifts depending on what kind of city you build. SimCity Societies let you go full dystopia or utopia, and the music follows you there. "Android Dream" has this cold, clinical synth atmosphere that sounds like a surveillance state humming to itself.
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Then you flip to "Kittens, Cake and Cotton Candy" and it's all whimsical bells and bouncy melodies like a theme park opened inside your monitor. "March of the Obedient" is genuinely unsettling, this rigid percussive loop that makes you feel like a dictator.
The way the score mirrors your moral choices is something most city builders never even attempt. If you like when music reacts to your decisions, this one delivers.