"Afternoon Snooze" from Crayon Physics Deluxe on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS7, & macOS (2009)
Composer: Alec Holowka
Album: Crayon Physics Deluxe
Label: Humble Bundle
Publisher: Kloonigames
Developer: Kloonigames
When you're playing a physics-based puzzle game, it's important to have some chill music to keep you calm as a part of your brain rages at having to construct a singularly long and totally nonsensical line around the screen to vault a ball into the air so that it lands on a star in the hopes that the game recognizes the genius of your creation. That's the beauty of "Afternoon Snooze" in Crayon Physics Deluxe. The piano, guitar, (chimes?), and violin are all chill enough to help keep your emotions in check, while also sounding interesting enough to keep your brain interested in the music; I guess, as long as you're not someone who gets distracted by music in video games.
And damn, that outro! From 3:50 until the song abruptly cuts off (I probably could have made it fade out, but I didn't), a cello (is that a cello?) manages to bring an entirely new element and feel to the song, only for it to stop/cut off 30 seconds later. That might be my only gripe, that the song doesn't go on for another two minutes at that point, but it's still a great song that I'm going to miss hearing in Crayon Physics Deluxe because I've called the game "done." Potentially more on that later.
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