Musical inspiration often comes from unexpected sources. Here we have the Ambient tracks from the themepark sim Planet Coaster. But the title of the collection, “Weightless” really does its job well as a background soundtrack for space exploration.
The music is slow, ambient and calm. It plays with many different instruments, favoring strings and organ/synth. There’s no driving drum beat, no patter or uptempo stings, just “floating” melody. This would certainly play well in quieter moments of stellar travel or exploration. Weightless indeed.
That said, having just come off writing the horror section in Chapter 3, I can’t help but think that this could serve as a purposefully dissonant track for a horror game, the lie of calm overlain on the horror beneath.
Anywho, it’s some nice stuff, take a listen!