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Original soundtrack of ‘Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical’ video game is out

11/08/2023
AnimationXpress Team

The original soundtrack for the music video game Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical has been released by Austin Wintroy. Released in four volumes, the album has songs written, composed and music directed by Wintroy.

The albums will feature songs performed by actors such as Troy Baker (The Last of Us), Anthony Rapp (Rent, Star Trek: Discovery), Felicia Day (Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog), Janina Gavankar (Borderlands), and many more top talents. There is minimal overlap between the three albums, and even with four releases, many of the songs would require dozens more albums to showcase every possible path a player might take through them.

Of the soundtracks, Wintory said, “Branching, interactive music has posed major challenges on every soundtrack album I’ve ever done, but nothing has compared to Stray Gods. How do you release a single version of something that’s designed to have many, many versions at the discretion of the player? My number one concern was that an album would somehow “canonise” a given choice, and make curious listeners think this was somehow the “correct” version of Grace’s story. So in my effort to escape this, I’ve gone ahead with four discrete albums. The first three correspond to the colour-coded traits the player can choose (Red: the rambunctious and antagonistic Kickass; Blue: the conniving and intellectual Clever; and Green, the compassionate and empathetic Charming). If you played the game by only ever choosing one of these colours, at every of the literally hundreds of decision points, you’d basically get these albums. The fourth album, which I called the Pantheon Edition, is my personally curated weaving amongst all three choices in an effort to: 1. minimally overlap with the other three, and 2. sample a realistic result of a given player’s approach. But the truth is, it would take thousands of albums to truly archive every viable playthru and so in the end, I hope some cross-section of the four provides a listener with what they’re looking for! We live in a world of custom playlists and this is meant to embrace that. Best of all though, simply go play the game and experience yours!”

Published by Humble Games and developed by Summerfall Studios, the game is set in a modern fantasy world. The official description reads: A college dropout Grace is granted the power of a Muse – power she’ll need to find out the truth behind her predecessor’s death before time runs out. You’ll decide who Grace allies with who she can trust, and who may betray her in this beautifully hand-illustrated roleplaying musical. Charm, negotiate, or strong-arm your way through their world, playing through original, fully interactive musical numbers composed by Grammy-nominated composer Austin Wintory (Journey, Banner Saga), Tripod (musicians Scott Edgar, Steven Gates, and Simon Hall) and Eurovision Australia’s own Montaigne (Jess Cerro). Fully orchestrated and performed by an all-star cast you’ll feel as though you’re right there on the stage. With thousands of potential variations based on your choices, you’ll craft the soundtrack to your own one-of-a-kind musical experience.

Here’s the tracklist:
Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (original soundtrack)

Red Edition tracklist:

  1. Adrift 
  2. I Can Teach You
  3. Phantom Pains 
  4. Challenging a Queen
  5. Old Wounds
  6. The Ritual 
  7. You and I
  8. Cast a spell
  9. Look Into Me 
  10. The Throne
  11. It’s Time
  12. Adrift reprise
  13. The Trial
  14. You and I reprise
  15. End Credits

Green Edition tracklist: 

  1. Adrift
  2. I Can Teach You
  3. Phantom Pains 
  4. Challenging a Queen 
  5. Old Wounds 
  6. The Ritual 
  7. Here for the Ride 
  8. Cast a spell
  9. Look Into Me 
  10. The Throne 
  11. It’s Time 
  12. Adrift reprise
  13. The Trial 
  14. Here for the ride reprise
  15. End Credits

Blue Edition tracklist:

  1. Adrift 
  2. I Can Teach You
  3. Phantom Pains 
  4. Challenging a Queen 
  5. Old Wounds
  6. The Ritual 
  7. Cast a spell
  8. Let’s have this Dance 
  9. Look Into Me
  10. The Throne 
  11. It’s Time 
  12. Adrift reprise
  13. The Trial
  14. Let’s have this Dance reprise
  15. End Credits

Pantheon Edition tracklist:

  1. Adrift 
  2. I know how it feels to be lost 
  3. The Apartment 
  4. Mount Olympus 
  5. The Chorus is in Accord
  6. I am the real article 
  7. I Can Teach You 
  8. A Muse elicits  
  9. Fragments of a Muse 
  10. Phantom Pains 
  11. Prophecy is the last thing you need 
  12. The Oracle (Joris Hoogsteder) 
  13. Underworld (Alex Moukala) 
  14. Challenging a Queen 
  15. Old Wounds
  16. A Faun atop Olympus 
  17. The Reliquary 
  18. Asterion 
  19. Cast a Spell 
  20. A Gathering of Guests 
  21. The Ritual
  22. Do you have any suspicions? 
  23. Entering the Viper’s Nest 
  24. Look into Me
  25. It must seem unfair 
  26. It is written
  27. The Muse’s Steps 
  28. An Empty Apartment
  29. Welcome to the real Underworld
  30. The Throne 
  31. I found someone while I was down here
  32. It’s Time
  33. You knew the truth this whole time
  34. Clearing the Air
  35. Adrift (reprise)
  36. I need to make it right
  37. If Only
  38. Welcome to Old Olympus
  39. The Trial 
  40. 40) The Decision
  41. I’m Exhausted
  42. If Only (reprise)
  43. Everything (bonus track)
  44. End Credits