Video Game Harmony

Superliminal
Released: November 19, 2019
Developer: Pillow Castle
Composer: Matt Christensen
https://open.spotify.com/album/4PK7GiRv8Vpq0xtuyB0g0r?si=clmfgjsDS9mCeXnbpf6dRw

3 years ago from the day that I first wrote this on Instagram, there was a surreal puzzle game released unlike any other. This game tricks your mind with illusions, as in you can change your perspective on an object to change its size. It’s mind-bending! I highly recommend everyone experience this game, but the soundtrack itself is something else entirely.

It’s not often that you get a soundtrack to a game that sounds like a piano lounge. It’s some of the most chill music I’ve ever heard, and it fits so well! It made for a fun experience solving the puzzles. The commercial at the beginning is great since it starts out as Moonlight Sonata but then gets more upbeat. The rest of the game is mostly just the piano music, but there are some tracks that are a bit different. The pause menu music, called clouds, is hard to describe. It’s kind of chill, but also makes me feel like not everything is how it seems. There are the tracks Darklight Escape, which really does sound like escape music, and It’s a Jungle (Next Door) which sounds like some salsa dance music. The track Alarming does sound like something alarming is coming. These are tracks heard at different levels, but towards the end of the game the score sounds much more ambient, and gives a whole new feeling of relaxing.

This entire game is an experience that you don’t usually get in video games, and the music reflects that. Like I said, I highly recommend this game, and if you like soundtracks then this is one you’ll want to listen to afterwards. It’s good for work or studying, and it brings you back into the experience of playing Superliminal.
I give the soundtrack 5 out of 5 stars.
★★★★★