Mewgenics' soundtrack shines — after 115 hours I'm still discovering songs

Mewgenics has a particular tone that sometimes skews toward early 2000s internet humour, which can feel immature or crass. Still, its soundtrack consistently lands, using looping instrumentals in each section to set mood—the Graveyard’s spooky double-bass and piano and the Desert’s spaghetti western tension are good examples.

Boss fights flip the script: the loop gives way to a full song with lyrics, putting the music front and centre and making encounters feel distinct. With very little dialogue during runs, the songs carry much of the storytelling—lines like “Where's that smell coming from?

So stinkily disgusting, so delightfully dead” and “All of my nights I'm chasing rats / All of my days, I'm taking naps” stick in the head. Some tracks push into genuinely unsettling or oddly touching territory, such as the spider in Crystalline Dreams singing “Silky threads feel like a snuggle / But getting loose is a struggle,” or the molten-core number “Down with the Devil” with its scratchy, weary lines about shovelling crap.

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