*Press A* 2024 ~ The Year’s Best Videogame Soundtracks

While the long tail of the 2023 videogame industry crisis seems to have no end, musical talent and creativity have flourished. Last year’s trend among the bigger (AAA) developers of renovating old musical formulas continued, from Reynatis to Metaphor Refantazio.

*Press A* ~ Frostpunk

The power of Frostpunk, by Piotr Musiał, resides in the able mix of late-romantic and modernist styles, reflecting, in a way, the game’s portrayal of the irruption of catastrophic natural disaster upon what was supposed to be an implacable history