Low strings dragging through fog and lamplight. Maribeth Solomon and Brent Barkman composed the Sunless Sea soundtrack for Failbetter's gothic nautical roguelike, and it sounds exactly like sailing a steamer through an underground ocean should.
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"Wolfstack Lights" hums with gaslit Victorian warmth before "Submergio Viol" pulls you into the deep with these aching cello lines. "Storm, Stone, Salt" is genuinely unsettling, percussion hitting like waves against a hull.
The track names alone tell a story. "The Sea Does Not Forgive" carries this resigned heaviness that perfectly captures the game's tone of beautiful, inevitable doom. If you like your ambient music soaked in dread and candlewax, start here.