10 Underappreciated Soundtracks That Defined Your Favourite Video Games

Transistor isn’t a quintessential video game soundtrack by any stretch of the imagination, but with its eclectic composition, emotional lyricism, fervent tempo, and instrumental variation, it is remarkably effective, providing ample emotion and range with its use of harps, electric guitars, accordions, mandolins, and synth pads, all wonderfully composed by Darren Korb.

There’s a degree of unprecedented variation and musical infidelity throughout the soundtrack, combining emotional highs and lows to convey the entire spectrum of human experience. In Circles, We All Become, Paper Boats and Signals accompany some of the greatest moments from the game, completely defining them – due in no small part to the vocal delivery of Ashley Lynn Barrett, whose range and delivery elevates several of the tracks.

The soundtrack alone sold over 48,000 copies within the first fortnight of its release, which proves how important the music was to the game’s eventual success, critically and commercially.