Full orchestral city-builder music that has absolutely no right sounding this cinematic. Dynamedion scored The Settlers 7 with a real orchestra and vocalist Kariina, and the result sits somewhere between a fantasy film and a medieval strategy game.
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The Hero Within opens with these soaring vocals over sweeping strings that immediately set a tone way above what you'd expect from a building sim. Saints and Settlers brings in this confident march rhythm with brass that makes placing roads feel weirdly heroic.
Then Forlorn Soldiers drops the energy into something genuinely somber, slow strings carrying all the weight of a lost campaign. Meadows and Hills just breathes. If you play any kind of strategy game and skip the music, reconsider with this one.