A pixel horror game with its entire soundtrack built from Bach arrangements. The Count Lucanor takes actual BWV catalog pieces and reinterprets them through this dark fairy-tale lens, and it's brilliant. "Garden Sonata" pulls from BWV 1018 with these delicate harpsichord lines that sound like something's watching you from behind the hedges.
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"J.F. Requiem" leans on BWV 582 and goes full gothic organ, heavy and suffocating. The kobold themes break up the tension with something more playful and strange. The whole concept just shouldn't work but it absolutely does.
If you've ever wanted Baroque music to make you genuinely uneasy while exploring a cursed castle, this is exactly that experience.