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Shatter Keep: The Soundtrack

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Shatter Keep: The Soundtrack

by Matthew Grainger

The soundtrack for Shatter Keep, a 4-player isometric horror game developed by Freethrow Games. The title theme, “Darkness Unfolding,” uses sinister, drawn out strings, accompanied by deep, ambient drones to create an atmosphere of dread and fear in players as they get ready to start a game. The gameplay track, “The Hunt,” is an amalgam of several different layers from the game’s dynamic soundscape. The music of Shatter Keep is highly reactive, changing based on the number of players alive. As Survivors are picked off, one by one, the music ramps up in intensity, until it is as chaotic and oppressive as the situation the final Survivor finds themselves in.