Orchestral warmth that sounds like watching embers float into a night sky. Hew Wagner's score for The Companion is twenty tracks of fantasy atmosphere for this 2021 Switch/PC adventure, and it stays emotionally grounded the whole way through.
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"Firefly Spirits" glows with exactly the energy the name promises. Delicate, flickering. "Frostfall" goes cold and sparse, and the contrast between it and the warmth of "Empyreal Embers" is really well handled. "Demon, Spirit, Shadow" adds weight without going full bombastic.
"Failure" as a track title in the back half hits different. Quiet devastation. "The Light on the Horizon" closes things with earned optimism, not forced uplift. If you play indie adventures for the quiet emotional moments between the action, this soundtrack was written for you.