The FM synth hits so hard on this one it feels like your Genesis just grew teeth. Steel Assault's soundtrack by Joseph Bailey and Luke McQueen is a love letter to the chunky, distorted sound chips of the early '90s, except it knows tricks those old boards never did.
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"City of Shattered Glass" layers gritty bass pulses under a melody that keeps climbing until it breaks. The boss themes each have this urgent, almost panicked energy that matches the whip-and-zipline chaos perfectly. And then the album includes full FM versions of everything, so you get to hear the same compositions stripped back to raw synth.
Pure adrenaline fuel. If you miss the days when action platformers had soundtracks that hit harder than the gameplay, start here.