Zander Noriega wrote a metal album disguised as a game soundtrack and nobody stopped him. Steredenn is a roguelike shmup from Pixelnest Studio, and every one of these seven tracks sounds like it was recorded in a garage orbiting Jupiter.
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"They're Everywhere" hits with distorted guitar riffs that sync up perfectly with waves of pixel-art enemies flooding the screen. "Science Magic" mixes electronic elements into the crunch, landing somewhere between thrash and synthwave.
The self-titled closer "Steredenn" pulls everything together into one final adrenaline push. Twenty minutes total, zero filler. Won Best Shoot'em Up in 2015 and the soundtrack is half the reason why. Put this on when you need to feel like a space cowboy with terrible odds.