The Fear & Hunger OST was created/put together with varying degrees of originality by Miro Haverinen. It wouldn't be here without the samples of Taira Komori, Loop Loft and freesound.org.
@@dimlylit3086 I was thinking of using it in my edgy _Summer Camp Island_ fanfic where Oscar gets stuck in Limbo. For future reference, the fic is called "Crawlspaces".
My favorite track. Gives a feeling of mystery, divinity, and darkness. Giving that sense of "Is this the REAL city of gods? Something doesn't seem quite right..". I cannot wait for Termina!
And it seems to me that it symbolizes that the melody is located at the same time in several time intervals. Old Mahabre with new gods that once lived here and the current, abandoned Mahabre
This has such a strange feeling. Like it's almost peaceful and it feels mesmerizing but there's something off about it too. I don't know how to describe it
it's suposed to be nostalgic, like an baby lullaby, you can also hear an mother chanting. but the whispers in the background is to remind you you're not safe, no matter if u're on an golden age version of mahabre
I think one of the things that makes this piece unsettling is that most other songs in the game have a low, droning noise in the background, but in this song, it’s just silence with a few distinctive sounds jumping out.
It made me feel like I was going mad on my first playthrough. Like, I had just made it through all that insanity and suddenly I'm in the city of Gods? Everything is weird, nothing make sense, and these ethereal tunes are just playing away in the background on repeat. Brilliant stuff.
This song is so uniquely unsettling, it surprised me to find such a good OST in an indie game. Keep up the amazing work, these games really are something else
@@s2sHoXXs2 There was also this little RPGMaker game called Undertale. It has an okay soundtrack. Kind of flew under the radar. Maybe you guys have heard of it.
I'm playing it for the first time now. I wish when I was first playing dark souls I knew how special the experience I was having was. Thank you for reminding me to cherish this 😊
For some reason this OST got stuck in my mind, when I think about fear and hunger I remember this music, there's something special and unique about it for me, it's familiar but not something I can remember if that makes sense, like an old lullaby you heard as a baby and forgot about it.
Amazing how you can make a 2D game so creepy whether you were in the bright city of Ma'habre and the ruins of Ma'habre. Also if you've seen those things in museums yeah to think they could have been living mechanorganic beings really raises a lot of questions.
I used this track as background noise in one of my DnD sessions. The players were split up and one group had to find the other group. They already had a clue as to where but when they arrived, only ancient burnt down ruins were there. After running around for a while and after hearing the description of the lively city the other group had found themselves in IRL and the description of this decrepit place ingame, they realized that they were in different time periods. They noticed a strange pillar with a cubic inset and remembered the strange artifact they found earlier. Once they placed the artifact inside the pillar, I pressed play on this track. The mood shift and actual fear in some of my player's eyes was insane. Even I got chills as I narrated what was happening and kept hearing the rewinding and clicking sounds. I love this game and I love this track and knowing I made others who would never touch F&H relate so heavily to the essence of the game and this track is very special to me.
well, for me it is relaxing because it reminds me that no matter how fucked I am right now I'm not even nearly as fucked as I would be, be I one of the characters in this hell
Greetings from Russia! Your game is really popular there (probably because the whole game is an accurate representation of a usual random russian small town xD) I adore your game and i really hope that the world will find out about your game, so it can become much and much popular!
Ma'habre is so perfectly unsettling in the past dimension. It's the only place that is always bright, the music seems somewhat happier than the rest but also distorted... But the game tells you it is *not* a good place. Calm and civilized as it seems compared to the rest, it's supposed to be a vile city. This sort of uncanny contrast is what I crave for.
Hearing this after the Passages made me fall in love with this song. Hearing it upon entering Ma'habre itself was so cathartic. I'd say Ma'Habre's atmosphere is perfect (even if I got lost the first time). The shadowy figures walking in a straight line, the ancient Mesopotamian-inspired architecture, the fact that the world of Fear and Hunger has always been messed up and violent... among other things, this makes the city unforgettable. I wish there was a mod where you could just take a stroll through Ma'habre without worrying about the enemies. Speaking of the music, I especially love the second part. The humming gives it such a beautiful yet haunting feeling, while the clinks and clanks make it seem like there are people leading their own lives in this ancient city, just outside of your reach. It's beautiful yet so foreboding, and I don't think many other games have managed to capture this feeling. Thank you, Miro.
Just so eerily calming and soothing in the first half, which fits because focusing on how it "reverses" matches the themes of the cycle continuing over and over again of humans trying to reach divinity snd getting stuck in the cycle of suffering by the old gods who are afraid of that future. Then it falls into just eerie darkness, foreshadowing the fate of mahabre and the old gods and new gods alike in the plans of sulfur or whoever is the mastermind lol.
This track has a weird calming effect that you almost feel safe during the first lullaby, but as it reaches the whispers and distortion, it's like you can hear the illusion fading away. Like the slow realization that you were never safe to begin with, and you never will be safe.
This song is a whole trip for me. The metallic sounds almost make me think of the drops of rain I often hear falling on sheet metal behind my home, but the bizarre rythm they follow in this song make it so unsettling, like hearing something very familiar and slowly realizing it is not entirely right. Like the moment of panic when you realize you're dreaming and suddenly wake up, all happening over a stretch of time you can't really measure. This whole track (and the whole game for that matter) feel like a dream in which you aren't certain whether you're awake or not and that is terrifying to me.
The main thing that sets this theme so high up for me, compared to the other tracks, is that is reflects the serene tranquillity of what the city was meant to represent in the past with the impending fate of the city feeling just barely moments away. You see others around you, but you don't feel safe. In a far different way than the present day version feels, this melody is calm but unnerving in the way only this time period can accomplish. I just think it's so damn neat how it's done, a bright city that feels more dangerous than the dungeon you were in.
it's suposed to be nostalgic, like an baby lullaby, you can also hear an mother chanting. but the whispers in the background is to remind you you're not safe, no matter if u're on an golden age version of mahabre
This is truly beautiful (like most of the soundtrack, honestly). This piece, however, I tend to put it as background noise whenever I need to feel inspired!
I think this piece of the OST has to be the most unsettling for me. It's that feeling of re-living a memory that isn't yours that makes it send shivers. Plus, reverse tracking always gives me the chills. 10/10 perfect sleep music 👌
the idea of an ancient civilization buried underneath a dungeon but the buried city has its own skies and shit and not some cave wall invokes some primal fear in me. its like can you imagine being stuck there?
its amazing how you make the music sound like it stores the ambient sounds of the area like howling of creatures in the distance, the whispers of the gods in your ears. its all so unsettling as a twisted mockery of civilization as we know it
This music reminds me of a fond memory of an old place you once loved but is forgotten with time. And when it finally reveal itself to you, it is corrupted and grotesque.
I love this OST so much, when I first made it to Ma'habre, the song accompanied by just how 'empty' everything was, it made you feel like you really didn't belong there
One of the creepiest melodies in the game. Always feel uncomfortable in Ma'habre. Dear developer, I have a little dumb question - the whole Ma'habre concept was inspired by Stardust Crusaders vs Justice episode of JoJo? Or I am just making some mad theories? :D Cause the atmosphere and even music have a little in common.
The atmosphere in this game is just.. It really feels like something forbidden I just discovered and I really just want to die and remove my experience of dread and horror I witness in this game, but I can't it just sticks to you no matter, even if youre not playing the game anymore.
Me encanta 😻 es una canción muy pacífica y linda, hasta que se repite una y otra vez como si de una caja musical rota se tratase nos muestra lo que realmente es, una decadente y abandonada gran ciudad intentando restaurar su gloria antigua, al igual que los nuevos dioses tratan inútilmente de alargar su poderío, es fascinante, atrapante y al mismo tiempo es triste y algo melancólica❤❤
Everytime i hear the music go in reverse, it feels like my mind and eyes are going backwards also. It's as though something is telling me "double check, it's not what you think it is."
