Soft jazz guitar floating through a dream you can't quite get a grip on. Matt Christensen's score for Superliminal matches a game about forced perspective and optical illusions with music that feels equally slippery. "Smooth Wonder" opens with this easy confidence that slowly destabilizes as you go deeper.
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"Clouds" on the pause menu is genuinely beautiful in a way that makes you not want to unpause. "Darklight Escape" and "Alarming" shift into unsettling territory when the dream logic starts breaking down. Then "Astral" and "Indefinity" pull you into full surreal drift.
The whole soundtrack moves between lounge comfort and existential unease so smoothly you barely notice the transition. If you like puzzle games that mess with your brain, the music here does the same thing to your ears.