This soundtrack opens with Debussy's Clair De Lune and then immediately drags you into a meat grinder. Masafumi Takada scored The Evil Within like he was building anxiety out of raw industrial noise and wrong notes. Code 3 En Route has this grinding urgency that just sits in your chest, and then Lurking in the Dark strips everything back to these barely-there textures that somehow feel worse.
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Inside the Psyche is the one that really got me though. Layers folding in on themselves, dissonant strings over what sounds like breathing. The whole thing lives in that Shinji Mikami survival horror headspace where silence is more threatening than any jump scare.
If you played this with the lights off you already know.