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Given both a listen. The Dwarf Fortress menu music is a really cool melancholy sounding melody, it sounds like it'd fit right in with a post-rock accompaniment. Something looming about it, something cryptic. It feels serious and soft-spoken, but mischievous.

The Disco Elysium OST is pretty versatile, it definitely lives up to the name. It's so ambient but so rhythmic, I dig the textures across tracks, with horns mixed between synth pads and different resonant signatures that blend together to make a really shoegazy backdrop. At the same time, the beats that drop in every so often are really cool chill but groovy beats that set the tone for the music goin' on.

Safe to say, I've never heard of either games, and I'll check out what they're about sometime thx for the recs!

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~tetris wrote (thread):

Hey thanks for taking the time to find these and listen, especially as I haven't returned the favour (I will do someday, I just rarely listen to music outside of work, and I've stopped listening to music at work...)

DwarfFortress will destroy you mentally, so I don't recommend it really. It's fun, like looking at the matrix and seeing all the chaos unfold, but it's really hard to navigate and I say this as someone who has been playing it on/off for several years.

Disco Elysium I think won game of the year in 2019 by several game review websites. I would recommend this game to anyone. It's a funny, thoughtful, eclectic mix of point-and-click detective mystery and emotion. If you've ever experienced heartbreak, this is the game for you.