Soundfall turns dungeon crawling into a killer dance party
There are times when I’m playing certain games where I want to play my music on Spotify instead of listening to the in-game soundtrack. I’ve done that for a few games — Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Shantae Half-Genie Hero, and Sonic Forces (the final boss, anyway) — but it doesn’t always work as well as I hope it will. In-game music tends to better suit the mood of the experience compared to anything I try to play over it.
Soundfall, a co-op rhythm-based dungeon crawler from Drastic Games, a startup game studio founded by Epic Games alumni, is a different story. Its soundtrack of indie tunes has the energy of a great Spotify playlist, with each disparate track syncing up to the action perfectly.
In Soundfall, you play as one of the five Guardians of Harmony — musical geniuses Melody, Jaxon, Lydia, Brite, and Ky — who got transported to the musical world of Symphonia while playing some music of their own in the real world. They’re summoned by the Composers to save all the music in the world from Discord, an army of creatures called Discordians who corrupt every song they touch by order of its lieutenant Banshee.
The game comes packed with 140 songs. Every land in Symphonia has an assigned musical genre that its environment vibes to in 1930s cartoon style. For example, Serenade Skylands, where the campaign starts, has a mix of pop and EDM, with songs like Fly Fly Fly by Ethan Martin and Frida Winsth (which I’ve been playing repeatedly on Spotify as I’m writing this) and Drawn To You by Vincent Vega. Minuet Forest, the third land of Symphonia, plays classical music composed by artists few of us may be familiar with.
Soundfall features original tunes too, which play during level selection and in
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