The music of ''
Deltarune
''Deltarune'' is a role-playing video game developed by Toby Fox. The player controls a teenage human, Kris, who is destined to save the world together with Susie, a monster, and Ralsei, a prince from the Dark World. During their quest to seal t ...
'' comprises multiple
soundtrack album
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s created and scored by
Toby Fox
Robert F. Fox (born October 11, 1991), known professionally as Toby Fox (previously Toby "Radiation" Fox), is an American video game developer and video game composer. He is known for developing the role-playing video games ''Undertale'' and '' ...
. The first soundtrack album was released on
Bandcamp
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on November 1, 2018, a day after the game was launched. In collaboration with
Fangamer
''Fangamer'' is a video game merchandising site which was spun out from Starmen.net, an EarthBound online forum. It operates an online store that sells items such as hats, pins, vinyl records and t-shirts and other video game apparel. In recent y ...
, Fox released the first chapter's soundtrack on
vinyl
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in 2019.
Releases
''Deltarune Chapter 1 OST''
''Deltarune Chapter 1 (Original Game Soundtrack)'' ("Deltarune" stylized in
all caps
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), also known as ''Deltarune Chapter 1 OST'', comprises the music featured in the first chapter of the game.
''Deltarune Chapter 2 OST''
''Deltarune Chapter 2 (Original Game Soundtrack)'' ("Deltarune" stylized in
all caps
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), also known as ''Deltarune Chapter 2 OST'', comprises the music featured in the second chapter of the game.
Lena Raine
Lena "Kuraine" Raine (born February 29, 1984), also known as Lena Chappelle, is an American-Canadian composer, producer, and video game developer. Raine is best known for her work on the soundtracks of '' Celeste'', ''Minecraft'' and ''Guild ...
and Marcy Nabors provided additional transcription and arrangement assistance.
Reception
Adam Luhrs of RPGFan reviewed the soundtrack of Chapter 1 and described it as ranging "up and down the history of video game music" and also noted how the soundtrack "mash
sdisparate elements together". Luhrs also stated that there's "
thread of darkness and mystery that weaves through the soundtrack", citing that some of the tracks made him feel "uneasy". Luhrs said that the soundtrack "has a complete arc", and said that the included tracks "spark of creativity and clever thematic structure". The soundtrack for Chapter 1 was nominated for a G.A.N.G. / MAGFEST People's Choice Award in 2019.
Charts
''Deltarune Chapter 1 OST''
''Deltarune Chapter 2 OST''
References
External links
Chapter 1
BandcampSpotify
Chapter 2
BandcampSpotify
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Video game soundtracks
Undertale