I have Celeste on my backlog after hearing really good things.
If you’re up for a mix of 8-bit and synth, I think you might enjoy Labyrinth by Monomer. He also scored the soundtrack to The Mummy Demastered.
I agree! I really enjoy revisiting Journey from time to time.
Speaking of music being essential to the experience, your thoughts remind me of another game I played recently, Thumper, which I think answers the question: What if a chrome Lovecraftian horror took over the drum tracks in Rock Band?
Click to know what in the world is going on!
What’s happening on screen can be hard to discern because the player is really good!
Essentially:
- press the button to “thump” the glowing squares (for points)
- hold the button through the red hurdles (or die)
- power slide (press the button+left/right) through the red turns (or die)
- press the button+up on a thump to fly and collect the hoops… (for points)
- …then press down on another thump (for more points)
And not a soundtrack per se, but I think the sound design in Alien: Isolation is amazing.
