Piano and nylon guitar holding you together while a game about death slowly takes you apart. Max LL scored Spiritfarer with this incredible restraint, pulling in sitar, mandolin, dulcimer, and shakuhachi across different regions but always keeping the emotional core grounded in those two familiar instruments.
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"Stella's Lullaby" is exactly as devastating as it sounds. "Northern Waters" gets a daytime and nighttime version, the night take stripping things down to something lonelier and more exposed. "First Snow" lands with this quiet weight that just sits in your chest.
The Farewell Edition adds ten more tracks that deepen what was already one of the most emotionally intelligent indie scores out there. If you've been putting off playing this one, the soundtrack alone will convince you to stop waiting.