The Wild Eight's soundtrack sounds like freezing to death in Alaska and somehow being okay with it. This survival game about eight plane crash survivors pairs ambient synth work with this constant underlying unease. "Go Far, Go Wide" captures the snow desert perfectly, all open space and howling emptiness.
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Then "Hark!" snaps into panic mode when something's chasing you through the woods. "Lost and Wintered" is the one that sticks though. Just quiet exhaustion. The whole score lives in the space between calm and dread, which is basically what the game feels like at 3AM when your fire's dying.
If you like survival games where the atmosphere does most of the heavy lifting, this soundtrack is doing a lot of that work.