Soft kalimba notes dissolving into reverb like sunlight through shallow water. Simon Chylinski scored Subnautica's ocean planet with this layered ambient electronic soundtrack that somehow makes you feel buoyant and terrified at the same time.
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Tracks like Tropical Eden and Amid the Kelp drift on warm synth pads and delicate plucks, letting you forget you're stranded on an alien world. Then Abandon Ship kicks in with distorted guitars and frantic percussion when a Reaper Leviathan decides you exist.
Fear the Reapers sits in that dread space between, all low rumble and tension. The whole thing breathes with the depth system, shallow tracks bright and airy, deep ones suffocating. If you ever wanted to know what thalassophobia sounds like set to music, start here.