Hello Everyone, By now you all must be aware of recent events. We lost a really talented Music Composer, Artist, and a Game Developer. This Soundtrack is so heartwarming and beautiful, It helped many souls in their darkest times. Thank you, Alec Holowka, may your soul rest in peace. I am enabling comments, for now, Please be kind in the comments, Thank you Let this Soundtrack be a Remembrance of a man who touched our hearts with such heartfelt songs.
Vicious Studios the news of his death is so sad. This game and its music holds a really special place in not only my heart, but also the hearts of many others. Rest in peace alec holowka
@@littlebunnyfoofoo209 Well said to both you and Vicious Studios. Rest in Peace Alec Holowka, thank you so so very much for all of your wonderful forms of art, they have struck a chord with many, and, hopefully, will continue to throughout all of time.
I'm gonna cry now. I never had the chance to finish the game yet, but while I played I greatly enjoyed the music. I always listen to this video while working on projects.
*FauxWerks* that's what the cult said we don't know who he would end up as plus he was a dear friend, from what we know from the game you wouldn't want your friend to die no matter how he does at life, would you?
@@thisoreoisqueen5944 I interpreted it as: there's gonna be a time where you're not gonna have anything that you once had. So you should hold onto it while you still have it. Or at least hold onto the memories. Just like Mae.
@@thisoreoisqueen5944 Like how Mae and Bea wonder if they're really friends or if their relationship was just convenient because they didn't have any other options. But they decide it doesn't matter because whatever it is is better than nothing while everything is falling apart around them.
I mean, the title of part 4 is "The End of Everything", and there's a point where Mae gets grabbed by ghost-guy and she grabs Bea. idk where I was going with this
@@Chara4Lyfe79 basically the person who made the ost and did the programming. Sadly, there were some false allegations against him which caused him to kill himself.
This game changed me as a person. Living in a rustbelt town that's the same as Possum Springs, I understood the setting perfectly and the people that lived there. It's a small dying town and everybody finds ways to escape the boredom when there's nothing to do but play on the train tracks and hang out at circle K. This game captures the feeling you have when the only Italian restaurant in town closes down or you go to the mall that only has 5 stores open. But the characters in Nitw were my age and going out and having adventures in a town the same as my own, while i sat inside. The game showed me that possibility and i think ive been chasing that adventure ever since I played the game. Because by the end, Night in the Woods made me realize how much I'm wasting my 20s. Thanks for reading
I feel you on on this. This game comforts me a lot, my family is from a dead/dying town in the Midwest and I'm living in a small town right now in a parents house, feeling like I've not done much with life. The characters all make sense, especially Mae with her bluntness. I related to them in a way that is rare for game characters, and the emotions that pervade the game. Nitw helped me get over my resentment and just enjoy the texture, emotion and everyday joys of living somewhere that's decaying.
Glad somebody else gets it lol. The characters in NiTW all speak to me in ways other game characters can't. The game made me feel restless, but it's good it had the opposite effect for you.
This is an entire mood. I connected so heavily with NITW because I grew up in such a dead-end town that didn't go anywhere, that you could walk through in about an hour if you had good legs and the time.. It reminds me of better days, youthful times.... Back when my Dad and I would go star-gazing, or my sister and I would go through the abandoned glass factory by the lake park after getting off the train tracks. Good times, but also bad ones.
Oh gosh, me too, it was so great to be able to imagine myself doing those things and having sentimental talks with my closest friends, talking about our future and the possibility of splitting up.
It's weird, the music in Night in the Woods never really stood out to me as anything that noteworthy while I was playing. But now that I'm listening to it on its own, it's able to bring me back to all the feels of playing the game, without having to touch a controller. I guess that means it's a pretty great soundtrack, or at least that it was well-implemented in the game.
I think that what really makes the music great is the experience you had while listening to it. I don't think I always come back cause it sounds good, but because it reminds me of something I love.
The music was one of the things that made me buy the game and play it, it sounded so original, so paceful at times, i thought i really want to listen to that at full quality in my own pc.
This game hit me so hard I still can't stop thinking about it. This game made me think about my life, my uncertainty, my strained relationships, a lot of things. Maybe the point where I can say "everything is ok" isn't too far away. Beautiful soundtrack as well.
TO: +spook Well, the game Undertale does not suck, it is much like this game, a really good game. BUT, the fandom is horrible, the game's relationship stories got out of hand, and the community went WILD with making horrible art, depending of fetishes, or other messed up shit, like a dude who's like 30 and jack's off to MLP porn. It's a really messed up community, but this game is also really good, the sountrack, etc. basically the whole game in general. Although it can get out of hand at some point. :/ Which in the case if that DOES happen, the devs can't fix that, they have to live with it, and so does the community.
This is so weird, reading your comments while listening the soundtrack makes me feel like I'm hanging in possum springs and you are the folks I'm talking to... This is proof of how good and significant this game is.
+Warsaw911 play the game again !!! And make different choices for example if you went out with Bea first this time go out with greg,you'll end up in a different place that you never saw before !!!
Problem is, I don't really want to play the game again, even for the achievements. I do love the game, but I don't think I would replay it. Knowing what's going to happen takes the fun out of it.
I know how you feel. After I finished this, I felt like I was in the video game equivalent of a show-hole. I didn’t know what to play since I knew next to nothing could compare to this.
Night in the woods is seriously under rated, the only big RUclipsd I can find who played it was jacksepticeye. It really deserved an award of some kind
Sitting on Ceilings Most title screens I’ve seen don’t really have cool music. In fact most of them don’t even have music to begin with. But I get what you’re saying - it’s like the introduction or the cover of a book.
Mallard's Tomb at 53:00 is so wonderful. It feels like a warm, cozy little nook hidden away from the adult world, where you can hang out with your decaying old childhood friend. ...it just hit me why Mallard is such a perfect analogue for the themes and feels in this game.
Alec Holowka is one of my top 5 musical idols and is part of the reason why I was inspired to play bass and in general start learning to be a musician. He will forever live on in my heart and mind, and hopefully in the future I'll be able to tribute a musical number to him. Rest easy, Alec.
I know this video is old, but. One of my closest internet friends loved NiTW. I first heard about the game from them and it intrigued me. I read about the characters and storyline a bit(never spoiled myself though because i was planning on buying it at some point), i always thought Mae was a lot like them. About a year ago, they logged off for the last time, idk where they went, no way of contacting them. Never got to playing it while they were still around. I miss them a lot and this game always makes me think about them. I'm going to buy it this summer. I miss you Amper. I hope you're okay. At the end of everything hold onto anything.
@Mom It's bittersweet, maybe that's why. Imagine.. The world you've known is fading away. And there's a glimpe of light amidst the abyss of darkness. You may have lost a lot, but you're still here, and there's still something to cling onto, no matter how small. And there will always be.
Just want to say the soundtrack adds a ton to the game, and really helps make it an excellent experience. I would/will purchase this if it's on vinyl someday.
I went to the vinylify website though, and you can only put 10 minutes per side, aka 20 minutes total. It's a neat idea, but wouldn't work for this soundtrack unless you had certain songs you put on it.
Actually Alec tweeted recently that he's going to make an official vinyl out of the songs. He wanted to know which songs people wanted to be on the vinyls. Find it and vote!
(Sorry for the bad English) This Game has brought me more than just entertainment. In many points I could find myself in Mae and recognize aspects of my life. In December, after 6 years, I found the courage to drop out of my law studies shortly before the end. It was already clear to me after 2 years that this is not the right thing for me. My parents are Chinese, so maybe that helps to understand why I couldn't drop out for so long. It is somehow a "tradition" that you just go through with things, even if you don't like them. In addition, all subjects that don't have to do with medicine, law or anything to do with business are taboo. The pressure from home and the conflict within myself to study something I couldn't identify with drove me into depression. I wasted years doing nothing. When I was home for Christmas, I finally found the courage to tell my parents that I would not continue studying law. As I feared, the conversation came close to disinheritance, but I am relieved. I have no idea what to do with my life or what I want to do. But for the first time since graduating from high school, I feel free. Somehow I associate this game and soundtrack with my own freedom.
I completely missed the news about Alec Holowka. As I listen to Church Hill, I can't help but feel immense sadness at another artist being taken from us. Rest in peace, friend, I wish you'd stay a little while longer.
There were many times I heard mentions of Night in the Woods, predominantly from Jacksepticeye. I never watched his videos of the game, but his absolute praise and love for it always stuck with me. I finally decided to pull the trigger on this game the other week to see what all the fuss was about, and boy was I not aware of how this game was going to hit me. My late teens and early 20s was a horrible period in my life. I was aimless, hopeless, and becoming further isolated from those I was friends with as the years went by. I saw a lot of myself in Mae, and I understood so much of how she felt throughout the game. What really stuck with me was her mom reminding Mae that your relationships need to be watered if it has any hope of growing. I'm slowly getting back into a better place in my life attending college again, but that hit me like a truck. I took a lot of people for granted, and when that didn't happen, I was too anxious/depressed to keep watering many of my friendships. And they died. Towards the end of the game as [spoilers] several characters were moving on with their lives and leaving others behind, I was starting to feel emotional being reminded of how I essentially floated through a whole decade of my life. A lot can change in that time. A lot can change in just two weeks, as Mae witnessed. Nothing in life is permanent, and we truly do need to ask ourselves what we will hold onto, and what we must let go of. Don't waste your time on people/things that don't make you happy. But don't become detached from everything in pessimistic-nihilism. You always get a choice in what you do and who you spend time with. And that will 100% shape your future and who you become. Please always remember that you have a choice.
This game perfectly captures the complex and often conflicting emotions that come with moving back to your home town. But more than that i think also works very well as a representation of life in your mid to late 20s. Particularity for those of us who grew up to find life nothing like we imagined it would be. There becomes a great temptation to burrow further and further into nostalgia, remembering a glorious and wonderful past that never really existed. And the more you reach for it the more disappointment and detachment you find because time moves on regardless. It doesn't care about any of our foolish concerns. There was an old coffee shop in my town that was the hang out spot for nerds, the owner would let you take up a booth in the back all day for a cup of coffee. I had so many formative experiences in my youth there, so many interesting conversations. Friendships forged and occasionally lost. When i came back from Uni it had been bulldozed to make way for some new apartments. When i saw that, in that moment i just felt trapped beneath the unstoppable wheels of time. That something so important to me was just gone felt wrong. And it can't ever be revived, even if i met some of my high school friends in a coffee shop in that town today they'd all be talking about their jobs, houses and kids. That moment in time and the people that populated it are gone. And so that place and all the memories attached to it will just fade away. It makes me so sad sometimes to think about all the little things like that i've lost but i also know if you only focus on what you've lost you will go mad. Sorry for the ramble, the game just brings up a lot of emotions. Which is a good thing. It remains one of my favorite games and the soundtrack is a perfect accompaniment for when i'm feeling sad and nostalgic.
Night in the Woods will be analised in the 22 century's literature classes as one of the best depictions of the young adult struggle to fit in a society that they do not understand. In the history of mankind there wasn't a better and more deep deconstruction of existential dread and "meaning of life". This game is simply a masterpiece
Agreed this game is like the perfect period piece for what it was like to come of age in the post-financial crash, pre-covid years. It's like a classic novel but for zillennials lol
I have lived away from my hometown for almost 10 years now, alone, in a big city. I understand the feeling of isolation that Mae felt coming back to Possum Spring. Home felt safe and dangerous both at the same time when I failed college and everybody keeps asking about how much I'm making a month.
I really appreciate how you mixed the tracks to flow from one to the next, rather than having breaks between them. It creates some really nice continuous background. Just wanted to say thank you for that little detail ^-^ Also, as a person who notoriously enters fandoms late, it's quite nice to actually see firsthand how this game is taking off! I'm really enjoying it and I hope that the fans don't ruin it for newcomers.
When the nights draw in, the leaves rest on the ground and autumn comes around, I will always think of this game with fond memories. What a game, soundtrack & ultimately a piece of art ❤️
sorry if i'm a bit late, rest in peace Alec, is thanks of people with this kind of talent that i will always keep in m heart titles like Night in the woods, for me your loss was and still has to be considered as disgrace for every artistic medium, many sees death just as the end of everything, others believe in some kind of reward or punishment for every action committed in life and, finally, some people believe that it's nothing as a passage to the unknown, in any case, whatever lies after, i really hope for you to be remembered in this world for your work by as much people as possible, for it's thanks of the memories of us, impressed in still breathings people, that we are allowed to keep existing in this world after our passing.
The soundtrack gives me sooooo many feels tbh because i live in an area similar to possum springs. A small dead-end village in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods. Small local cafes, pizza places, small local shops and a tall church that looks extremely similar to the one in possum springs. Especially because i first saw this game in autumn. I love this game sooo much. A lot of the characters are similar to some people i know too. Theres nothing to do here but its a nice place. ALWAYS roadwork. I just hope one day ill have friends and we'll be able to do stuff together like mae and her friends.
@@adventure_junkie5340 Easier said than done. It's charming 5% of the time, but it mostly sucks the air out of you. Although, some people would rather die than leave this place. I suppose it depends.
This game changed my perspective on friendship and love, sure, it allowed me to see I had no friends, but then someone walked out of the crowd, and asked me if I wanted to hang out at the movies, we just started hanging out, he would play and laugh with me and I would here him out and help him during class, he was and still is my friend, my Greg🙂
NITW seriously has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. Every piece has so much love and care put into it. It all flows so well and sounds so beautiful. To this day I'm salty because I feel like this game never got the attention and attraction it deserved. It's a wonderful masterpiece.
Kind of obsessed with this game at the moment. God the music and characters are so good. Gregg is the best and bonding with Bea was great. Lori tracks all the way!
I'm not usually one for visual novels, but this game hit harder than a freight train for me. I originally played it back in 2017 and thought it was just a neat game, but I recently played through it again, and it was hauntingly relatable. I don't think there's anything that captures longing for the past, uncertainty about the future, changing relationships, and the utter meaninglessness of our universe like NITW. At the end of everything, hold on to anything.
The funny thing is, when I was playing the game the soundtrack didn't stand out to me that much. But now, listening to the town theme and the band songs, I want to cry. RIP Alec and Casey
This game brought me back in touch with my humanity and back to life as you could say, it felt like I was breathing for the first time in ages. Life in the world hasn't been kind to me, and every time I took a blow from life it felt like I started losing what made me *me*. Things got so bad where I was desperate to desensitize myself from feeling anything, I was falling away from everything but then I found this gem. All I needed was someone to relate to, someone who was in deep just like I was, Who was a mess like I was. it really helped me remember that the sun will always rise again, that we are never alone in our struggles and pains. My world lost its color, but walking through possum springs brought it back. Every time I came back I found myself feeling happier with every visit. Would it be alright to say that I shed a tear for myself for the first time in ages? Because that's what happened. in the past I said I wouldn't cry again as a young kid, and since then I never did. Life took so much of a toll on me back then that I convinced myself that my tears were meaningless, worthless and no matter how much I've struggled I wouldn't amount to anything. As time flew by in years, It felt like I was dying inside but then by some kind of chance or miracle I found this place, the characters the whole entire thing was melting away the walls I made and was buried behind. So I will stand up and say it, this brought me back from the brink of despair. It cleared the illusions from my heart and mind, and I am ever so appreciative of that. Because in a way this saved me from never being alive again, so thank you so much from the very bottom of my heart to everyone who came together and brought this masterpiece to life as well as bringing me and many others who've been hurt back from the dark. My best wishes for a happy future to you and everyone, I hope to see more of the greatness that made this possible. I want to see more games like this, because we never see anything like this in the gaming industry. A story/game that heals, who would have thought we needed something like this so badly
I listened through the whole thing and marked some of my favorites, specifically underrated songs. Graveyard Main (32:56) Bridge (39:53) Mallards Tomb (52:59) Outskirts (59:05) Mae's House P 3 (1:39:22) DT Leafy Graves: (1:41:41) DT Cemetery 5 Grounds (2:30:34) Well Woods (2:42:19) DT Final Boss (2:57:52) End Credits (3:19:34) Of course the intro, all town parts, the astral songs, and band practices songs are all great too but these ones are some that might get overlooked :)
Just because the two games are in the indie genre doesn't mean undertale and night in the woods are better or worse than each other. Stop comparing them and pitting them against each other. They are both lovely games in their own right
Somehow just those last notes of the credits are just...perfect. They bring a finality, yet having those last moving notes after the last chord create the feel that this is not the end.
My favorite part about NITW's OST is the constant theme from the trailer playing all throughout the score, from the Title screen to Town 2, there's always a subtle reminder of that melody. If you want, try finding it in all of the tracks ;D
Sometimes I have weird feeling. I can't explain it very well. It happens when I recall a game, movie or tv show, and not only the title comes to mind but everything that I liked about it comes to mind. I feel nice for a few seconds, as if I swallowed a cloud of happiness or as if something warm hugged me when I recalled just the name, and I feel like I am in the specific setting and I live in this memory for a moment. Does this make sense? Does this happen to anyone else? As if every good game or tv show you've seen have their own place in your brain. Is it nostalgia? My point is that night in the woods gives me this warm feeling.
I experience something similar from time to time. Its like you realise that you are not in the place you have to be, and that you are not who you really are. But this realisation isn't sad or frightening, instead it makes you *feel* like *that* person living in *that* world. Kind of like remembering something that never happened
Night In The Woods is an unsung masterpiece and I feel it will only become more important as time goes on. I’m glad we all got to experience this game and these characters.
A game that speaks so much of my life, too big for my tiny mind to fathom. A kickstarter project that extends beyond the norm. A creation that resonates in the depths of the heart. What a remarkable achievement! I love this game so much
This OST always blended beautifully with the game. It was clear that whoever made it not only understood the premise, but also felt it while composing it. A real shame that we lost someone with such passion, but we should all be grateful that we got to experience it
I want to thank the team behind this game. If it hadn’t been for the hard work and sacrifices they poured into seeing this game through we would’ve never experienced it. That said, on a personal note. I want to thank you guys so much, if it hadn’t been for your game/ story, I wouldn’t have realized I was falling in a hole and alienating myself from old friends, family, and life in general. I played this game around late November, early December 2019. Sought out friends I had drifted away from, family I had been distant from on purpose, and to be more comfortable around strangers from my small town (less than 2,000 ppl), all thanks to the experiences in your work. I was able to make my peace with my grandmother who I hardly ever saw throughout my life as she sadly passed away Christmas of 2019. I want to thank you again and again for helping me realize that life isn’t or can’t be me against the world. That I need to let people in and accept what comes as it comes. I’m a 19 year old guy with a whole life ahead of him and weirdly enough your work taught me to enjoy the small things in life. I’m losing my train of thought now but I want to leave you with this. Thank you to the team behind this work for helping me deal with some bad jazz and working it out slowly, I’m glad to say I’m looking forward to life and strengthening my relationships with those in my life. Every time I listen to the soundtrack I get a warm fuzzy feeling that spreads through my chest and limbs and feel invigorated to go out and enjoy life with friends, family , and complete strangers. Because at the end of everything hold on to anything. Rip in pepperoni Alec Holowka, May you find peace in the afterlife and if you see my grandma could you tell her I love her?
My friend showed me this game and I fell in love with it. The setting, the story, the music and the characters. Astonishingly, I have depression, I play bass, and I'm outta college, like Mae. My significant other is logical but socially distanced from others, like Germ. it's odd how games find ways into our lives...
NITW gave me so much feelings. I really loved this game, just everything about is so beautiful. You could really relate to some characters! And in my opion I found this soundtrack so chill and beautiful, it makes me calm in every way :)
I can't get over how amazing the soundtrack is, this is truly a gift to anyone willing to listen. I love the game and it wouldn't even be close to the masterpiece that it is if it didn't have this amazing track to go with it. Even if Alec Holowka can't ever see this, I'm going to say, thank you, for this incredible piece, from all the people who played the game and listened to this. Thank you, Infinite Fall, Finji, all the developers for the game, everyone who worked on this project, you are all amazing people with incredible talent, I can see the love in every bit of the work you put out, so, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. May your soul rest in piece, Alec Holowka.
So .. it's almost a year since everything ... and i still feel like it only happened a few weeks ago ... it was hard to come back to the OST, thinking about what had happened, but now .. its always close to me ... as a memento, a memory, of something that should always be remembered, no matter what happened ... RiP Alec H. Gone .. but not forgotten ..
Years later, I still come back to this. This game means a lot and the music in it is just so wonderful, and has the best feels. Great music for the start of another Autumn
I don't know what it is about NITW, but the game has so stayed with me. I want to hang out with the characters, know how they're doing, like they were real. Listening to this wonderful soundtrack brings back memories and makes me want so hard to return to Possum Springs.
I'm listening to this rn at 1 am in my dorm. It's making me so nostalgic for those days full of stress post spring break pre final during school. This game was my only escape from that. When I heard Town Part 1 I honestly teared up. NITW feels like home.
Hey, me from the past. Right now I'm listening to this at 4:30 pm in my ACTUAL dorm, not the dorm of a summer program like it was when you wrote this. You're at real college now, studying real animation. You love your roommates and your new friends, and to be honest you've never been this happy. But things are still hard. Things have been really, really hard since you first wrote this comment. But one thing hasn't changed- when I heard the first note of Town Part 1, I immediately got hit with such a strong emotion that I almost broke down crying. Night in the woods still feels like home to you, still feels like home to me. Even though my definition of home has changed a lot in the past few years, and right now I'm in a new home, far away from my other home. Night in the woods is still home. Stay strong little sophie. We will make it someday. I love you.
town part 2 is my favourite by far, gives me that calm but happy autumn-y feel :) love this game so much, wish i took the time to play it for myself instead of watching youtubers play it haha
This soundtrack kept me alive while I worked on my senior thesis. I made a side scrolling pixel art game and it took my soul out of me, working day and night until I was more burned out and exhausted than I’ve ever been before. I had this soundtrack on loop while I sat and drew and animated and programmed and worked through the night, went to bed and then repeated it again the next day for months. The soft melody and gently hopeful vibes kept me calm and happy during a time where I should’ve been stressed and crying constantly. Thank you for sharing and for creating such a cute and memorable mix 💖
Thank you for bringing such joy and tranquility to my every day life. This soundtrack really speaks to me on an emotional level, whenever I hear it, I feel like I'm standing up the street of a small town, on a foggy Autumn morning, with damp pavement and leafs all around. Rest in Peace Alec Holowka, thank you for the groove.
Hello Everyone,
By now you all must be aware of recent events. We lost a really talented Music Composer, Artist, and a Game Developer.
This Soundtrack is so heartwarming and beautiful, It helped many souls in their darkest times.
Thank you, Alec Holowka, may your soul rest in peace.
I am enabling comments, for now, Please be kind in the comments, Thank you
Let this Soundtrack be a Remembrance of a man who touched our hearts with such heartfelt songs.
Vicious Studios the news of his death is so sad. This game and its music holds a really special place in not only my heart, but also the hearts of many others. Rest in peace alec holowka
@@littlebunnyfoofoo209 Well said to both you and Vicious Studios. Rest in Peace Alec Holowka, thank you so so very much for all of your wonderful forms of art, they have struck a chord with many, and, hopefully, will continue to throughout all of time.
I'm gonna cry now. I never had the chance to finish the game yet, but while I played I greatly enjoyed the music. I always listen to this video while working on projects.
I know about from September, but I still in shock :"0
omg, this is so sad...
R.I.P. Casey Hartley.
We hardly knew you.
TheAlmightyGoiter You didnt take the "Hartley" knew you opportunity :(
It's too soon.
Its not too soon now!
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R.I.P Casey Hartley.
We hartley knew you.
Still, it's a pretty messed up way for a kid to die
*FauxWerks* that's what the cult said
we don't know who he would end up as
plus he was a dear friend, from what we know from the game
you wouldn't want your friend to die no matter how he does at life, would you?
"At the end of everything hold onto anything".
that's clever. *_reeally clever._*
sheebee God I had forgotten about that line and it just h i t me oof
I still don't get it...
@@thisoreoisqueen5944 I interpreted it as: there's gonna be a time where you're not gonna have anything that you once had. So you should hold onto it while you still have it. Or at least hold onto the memories. Just like Mae.
@@thisoreoisqueen5944 Like how Mae and Bea wonder if they're really friends or if their relationship was just convenient because they didn't have any other options. But they decide it doesn't matter because whatever it is is better than nothing while everything is falling apart around them.
I mean, the title of part 4 is "The End of Everything", and there's a point where Mae gets grabbed by ghost-guy and she grabs Bea. idk where I was going with this
bless this mess.
god that poster made my dad laugh
I am putting this on my wall
@@grimmcorvid5713 uh oh furry alert
AGHHHHHH
Living room quotes like these make me want to live laugh love my brain matter to the nearest hard surface. ¹⁰/10
RIP Alec Holowka, your flame may have burnt fast, but it burnt very brightly, and lit the way for many others.
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That's a nice quote, never heard this one before.
A year later, I never knew who he was, but I found this masterpiece.
@@Chara4Lyfe79 basically the person who made the ost and did the programming. Sadly, there were some false allegations against him which caused him to kill himself.
@@kratzy11
*Everyone disliked that*
This game changed me as a person. Living in a rustbelt town that's the same as Possum Springs, I understood the setting perfectly and the people that lived there. It's a small dying town and everybody finds ways to escape the boredom when there's nothing to do but play on the train tracks and hang out at circle K. This game captures the feeling you have when the only Italian restaurant in town closes down or you go to the mall that only has 5 stores open.
But the characters in Nitw were my age and going out and having adventures in a town the same as my own, while i sat inside. The game showed me that possibility and i think ive been chasing that adventure ever since I played the game. Because by the end, Night in the Woods made me realize how much I'm wasting my 20s.
Thanks for reading
I feel you on on this. This game comforts me a lot, my family is from a dead/dying town in the Midwest and I'm living in a small town right now in a parents house, feeling like I've not done much with life. The characters all make sense, especially Mae with her bluntness. I related to them in a way that is rare for game characters, and the emotions that pervade the game. Nitw helped me get over my resentment and just enjoy the texture, emotion and everyday joys of living somewhere that's decaying.
Glad somebody else gets it lol. The characters in NiTW all speak to me in ways other game characters can't. The game made me feel restless, but it's good it had the opposite effect for you.
This is an entire mood. I connected so heavily with NITW because I grew up in such a dead-end town that didn't go anywhere, that you could walk through in about an hour if you had good legs and the time..
It reminds me of better days, youthful times.... Back when my Dad and I would go star-gazing, or my sister and I would go through the abandoned glass factory by the lake park after getting off the train tracks. Good times, but also bad ones.
Oh gosh, me too, it was so great to be able to imagine myself doing those things and having sentimental talks with my closest friends, talking about our future and the possibility of splitting up.
And that ghosts are able to kidnap you.. 😉
It's weird, the music in Night in the Woods never really stood out to me as anything that noteworthy while I was playing. But now that I'm listening to it on its own, it's able to bring me back to all the feels of playing the game, without having to touch a controller. I guess that means it's a pretty great soundtrack, or at least that it was well-implemented in the game.
Yeah, sound is weird like that, your brain quickly starts ignoring it, but hearing it later can trigger really vivid memories and intense nostalgia.
You should try Terraria or Slime rancher than man... them math fuckas can Put You IN The FUCkin MOOOOOOOOD!
THRILLHO YES I KNOW
I think that what really makes the music great is the experience you had while listening to it. I don't think I always come back cause it sounds good, but because it reminds me of something I love.
The music was one of the things that made me buy the game and play it, it sounded so original, so paceful at times, i thought i really want to listen to that at full quality in my own pc.
It's raining. My drawing tablets and my pencils batterys are full. I have my apple juice. This music is playing. everything is cool.
same.
Ekiko I have bacon.
Sounds like something Mae would say if she was a web artist.
I wish i could afford a drawing tablet. drawing with a mouse is unbearable!
@TonyMacaroni there is actually cheaper ones that you can buy on internet! they are cool
This game hit me so hard I still can't stop thinking about it. This game made me think about my life, my uncertainty, my strained relationships, a lot of things. Maybe the point where I can say "everything is ok" isn't too far away.
Beautiful soundtrack as well.
DonnieDarko Requiem same. I know where your coming from.
same
KROH umm
DonnieDarko Requiem Same except it also made my me question my sexuality... Dont question it.
hang in there man. Pain is temporary and good times are coming. I hope you got through your rut #gamerpositivity
this game has the best soundtrack ever. makes me feel like i am home
Listen to Undertale's soundtrack.
Bernard Sk yeah i played it a year ago it's also very great i was nearly crying
TO: +spook Well, the game Undertale does not suck, it is much like this game, a really good game. BUT, the fandom is horrible, the game's relationship stories got out of hand, and the community went WILD with making horrible art, depending of fetishes, or other messed up shit, like a dude who's like 30 and jack's off to MLP porn. It's a really messed up community, but this game is also really good, the sountrack, etc. basically the whole game in general. Although it can get out of hand at some point. :/ Which in the case if that DOES happen, the devs can't fix that, they have to live with it, and so does the community.
Goatyx technically they do Its called the right of free speech.
yea
This is so weird, reading your comments while listening the soundtrack makes me feel like I'm hanging in possum springs and you are the folks I'm talking to... This is proof of how good and significant this game is.
Glad to hear it, stranger!
hello, stranger, im just looking for some pale white tunnel fish, dont mind me!
Be careful out there, its a weird world
Hey, wanna hear a poem I've been working on?
"hanging in possum springs"?
For some reason every (and I mean EVERY) song makes me sad and nostalgic
Alice In Otaku Land I'm already missing Mae
Goatyx It's my Wattpad name. I was too lazy to come up with a different one that I liked.
Oxenfree Alex Yeah me too I'm playing the game for the third time today.
Random Username mae is not something you just get tired of
Maybe Because Alec Holowka Soul is in The OST/Game?
i didn't even play this game, but this is stunishing beautiful
you should consider it
Quadro em Branco its a really good game
I just got it yesterday...and was so addicted to it I played for 5 hours straight
JOGA ELE ,EU TE PEÇO EM TODOS OS VIDEOS PARA FALAR SOBRE ELE, QUALÉ.
Joga e faz um video se você gostar,acho que encaixaria bem no canal
im not crying youre crying
we're all crying
Cried 3 times while watching someone play this game
*_thump**thump**thump**thump**thump**thump**thump_* *[Gregg counter-slapping intensifies]*
yvoi How did you know
Because it's the greatest thing ever!
I just finished this game. The game is a work of art. I don't even know what to do with my life anymore.
+Warsaw911 play the game again !!! And make different choices for example if you went out with Bea first this time go out with greg,you'll end up in a different place that you never saw before !!!
Problem is, I don't really want to play the game again, even for the achievements. I do love the game, but I don't think I would replay it. Knowing what's going to happen takes the fun out of it.
The game is designed to require at least two playthroughs to see everything though. There's a whole other side.
I know how you feel. After I finished this, I felt like I was in the video game equivalent of a show-hole. I didn’t know what to play since I knew next to nothing could compare to this.
Once I've Completed The Game,
My Life Just Ended
I've always imagined that the reason Bea's cigarette can always stay in her mouth is because it's impaled on one of her teeth.
Chris Wiet I’m gonna draw that
*SNRK*
I thought it was a lollipop until the last chapter of the game haha
@@luarie1011 why the fuck would she be sucking on the stick and not the lollipop
@@Ticklebrush LMFAO
Eeeeeels!
Eeeeels Honey. Eeeeels!
Eeeeeels mom eeeels
@@williammcreaver6121 Eeeeeeeeeeeeeels
And doolfins
:0 brilliant
EEEEEEEEELSSS
Night in the woods is seriously under rated, the only big RUclipsd I can find who played it was jacksepticeye. It really deserved an award of some kind
Cry played it. Very good playthrough! He even had a special guest. It was a wonderful experience i highly recommend watching it :)
The Game Grumps also played it. Actually that might've been on Kitty Kat Gaming, but it at least had Arin on it.
@@SHNOOPBOT69 they never finished it though
I love the voices he gave for each characters ❤
I think I found out about NITW by watching a german youtuber called Zombey and I loved the game so much!
You know a soundtrack is good when even the freaking title music is catchy as hell!
Da Dragon Durp yes
Sitting on Ceilings Most title screens I’ve seen don’t really have cool music. In fact most of them don’t even have music to begin with. But I get what you’re saying - it’s like the introduction or the cover of a book.
You know title music is catchy as hell when you stay on the title screen for a while before starting the game just to get in the right mood.
I love doing that! ^_^
Hell, sometimes I start the game just to listen to the title again.
Alec didn't deserve to die
That hits even harder if you think about what the game tries to tell us :/
It's midnight. My dorm is quiet. The ost fills my ears. I have two midterms due tomorrow... Let's do this.
+EleMayo Good luck!
So............................
Did you win?
Well, a year later and this comment grabbed my attention. How did it go?
@@matthewpassage65536 we are waiting for good news 😙😉
Still waiting! We all wanna know! (I used this ost to study senior year if college, too! Listened to the whole thing! )
When the spirit of the grandfather appeared when Mae rested at the Church, it took more out of me than all of Covid had.
Mallard's Tomb at 53:00 is so wonderful. It feels like a warm, cozy little nook hidden away from the adult world, where you can hang out with your decaying old childhood friend.
...it just hit me why Mallard is such a perfect analogue for the themes and feels in this game.
thrillhouse.vanhouten I haven’t played in a while, who’s Mallard?
@@jrr1532 Mallard is a special old friend found in a high - up place in town
thrillhouse.vanhouten oh cool! I don’t think I’ve met him :0! Thank u
@@jrr1532 No spoilers, but the next time you're passing through downtown Possum Springs, go exploring and see if you can find Mallard!
thrillhouse.vanhouten ok! Thank u again!
Alec Holowka is one of my top 5 musical idols and is part of the reason why I was inspired to play bass and in general start learning to be a musician. He will forever live on in my heart and mind, and hopefully in the future I'll be able to tribute a musical number to him. Rest easy, Alec.
I know this video is old, but. One of my closest internet friends loved NiTW. I first heard about the game from them and it intrigued me. I read about the characters and storyline a bit(never spoiled myself though because i was planning on buying it at some point), i always thought Mae was a lot like them. About a year ago, they logged off for the last time, idk where they went, no way of contacting them. Never got to playing it while they were still around. I miss them a lot and this game always makes me think about them. I'm going to buy it this summer. I miss you Amper. I hope you're okay. At the end of everything hold onto anything.
shit dude
Wow... Realy sad...
Did they get to talk to you again?
Did you play the game?
@Mom It's bittersweet, maybe that's why. Imagine.. The world you've known is fading away. And there's a glimpe of light amidst the abyss of darkness. You may have lost a lot, but you're still here, and there's still something to cling onto, no matter how small. And there will always be.
imma go run naked in the wwwoooOOOoods!
+super pikachu ahahaha good luck xD
super pikachu lol when mae's drunk
Lelel
Mae, you’re drunk.
Irish St
Just want to say the soundtrack adds a ton to the game, and really helps make it an excellent experience. I would/will purchase this if it's on vinyl someday.
Jerry Snook who wouldn't ??? it's a masterpiece of a Soundtrack. this is why I love the indie genres, humble beginnings :)
I would vomit money out of my soul immediately if this came to vinyl
SScott Berson
I went to the vinylify website though, and you can only put 10 minutes per side, aka 20 minutes total. It's a neat idea, but wouldn't work for this soundtrack unless you had certain songs you put on it.
Actually Alec tweeted recently that he's going to make an official vinyl out of the songs. He wanted to know which songs people wanted to be on the vinyls. Find it and vote!
(Sorry for the bad English)
This Game has brought me more than just entertainment. In many points I could find myself in Mae and recognize aspects of my life. In December, after 6 years, I found the courage to drop out of my law studies shortly before the end. It was already clear to me after 2 years that this is not the right thing for me. My parents are Chinese, so maybe that helps to understand why I couldn't drop out for so long. It is somehow a "tradition" that you just go through with things, even if you don't like them. In addition, all subjects that don't have to do with medicine, law or anything to do with business are taboo. The pressure from home and the conflict within myself to study something I couldn't identify with drove me into depression. I wasted years doing nothing. When I was home for Christmas, I finally found the courage to tell my parents that I would not continue studying law. As I feared, the conversation came close to disinheritance, but I am relieved. I have no idea what to do with my life or what I want to do. But for the first time since graduating from high school, I feel free. Somehow I associate this game and soundtrack with my own freedom.
Title Music (00:00)
Town part 1 (03:45)
Town part 2 (07:22)
Town part 3 (12:12)
Town part 4 (16:12)
Rainy Town (20:24)
Angus Constellation (23:57)
Cloud Vacation (29:07)
Graveyard Main (32:56)
Pierogis in the dark (36:27)
Bridge (39:53)
Batter up (43:19)
Angus IQ (46:35)
Chazzoscope (49:47)
Mallards Tomb (52:59)
Mirandas House (56:11)
Outskirts (59:05)
Church (01:01:53)
Bea Dance Close (01:04:37)
Bea Dinner (01:07:17)
Demon Tower Floor (01:09:57)
Laptop Vignettes (01:12:37)
Knife Fight (01:15:17)
Astral Coal (01:17:51)
Astral Alley (01:20:25)
Harfest March (01:22:20)
Proximity (01:24:50)
Bea Chase (01:27:17)
Die Anywhere Else (01:29:45)
Astral Train (01:32:10)
Boss Conversation (01:34:34)
Demon Tower Library (01:36:58)
Mae's House Part 3 (01:39:22)
Demon tower Leafy Graves (01:41:41)
Investigating (01:44:05)
Mae's House part 2 (01:46:25)
Microfiche (01:48:35)
Lori tracks (01:50:53)
Mae's House Part 1 (01:53:01)
Angus Home (01:55:16)
Demon Tower lvl Cathedral (01:57:26)
Intercom (01:59:34)
Mall Music (02:01:42)
Greg Woods (02:03:46)
Minewoods Trek (02:05:49)
Fireflies On The Porch (02:07:52)
Demon Tower Skellie Outskirts (02:09:48)
Food Donkey Faces (02:11:42)
Greg Maniac (02:13:37)
Wierd Autumn Part 3 (02:15:30)
Videostore Music (02:17:17)
Urev Music (02:19:03)
Picaxe Music (02:20:47)
Underwater Walt (02:22:27)
Pumkin Head Guy (02:24:07)
Curch hill (02:25:46)
Demon Tower Floor 2 (02:27:22)
Food Flicker (02:28:58)
Demon Tower Cementary Grounds (02:30:34)
Poetry Society (02:32:04)
Birdland backing (02:33:34)
Bird land (02:35:04)
Music Gregg (02:36:34)
Demon Tower Floor 6 (02:38:03)
Sharkle Dream (02:39:31)
Spooky Mansion (02:40:57)
Well Woods (02:42:19)
Snack Falcon Music (02:43:43)
Miranda's Basement (02:45:04)
Teens Music (02:46:24)
Cycles (02:49:03)
Death Prairie (02:50:21)
Bea 80s Song (02:51:38)
Town Fuzz (02:54:11)
Bathroom Vandalism (02:55:28)
Church Hospital (02:56:40)
Demon Tower Final Boss (02:57:52)
Fps (02:59:02)
Spooky Mansion Intense (03:00:11)
Stealing (03:01:19)
Douchebag Tune (03:02:28)
Food Donkey (03:03:36)
Grocery Shopping (03:04:42)
Robot Builder (03:05:48)
Graveyard Old Section (03:06:53)
Demon Tower Title (03:07:57)
Gregg Not As Manic (03:09:01)
Cat God (03:09:59)
Astral Fish (03:10:53)
Sadie Saleem Longest Night (03:11:46)
Break Furnance (03:12:37)
Demon Tower Floor 1 (03:13:28)
Mansion Room (03:14:16)
Bea dance 1 (03:15:04)
Demon Tower Boss (03:15:48)
Mine Woods RunAway (03:16:27)
Maybe (03:17:06)
Waking UP Part 3 (03:17:44)
Demon Tower Ending (03:18:22)
Waking UP (03:18:59)
Ambient Discordant fuzz (03:19:18)
End Credits (03:19:34)
Omg that you for making this comment! But on a serious note it must have taken ages to write down all the times stamps😂😂
Can you please tell me what genre of music is the Title song? I can't find it anywhere!!!
@@davidtorazzi7650 kinda sounds like Blues and another one
@@TatsumikuTheMusicalGhazt thank you. I think it might be "Indie Blues" or "Indie Rock" one of those or a mix of both.
Thank you, you amazing comment typing person ; u ;
*die anywhere else plays*
Me: *screeches*
*screams* IF ONLY I COULD DIEEEEEE ANYWHERE ELSEEEEEE
*ANYWHEREEEEE*
*JUST NOT HEREEEEEEEE*
Ayyee I made a cover of it on my channel if you're interested! :D
@@An_ImaginaryFriend Weird Autumn is my favorite band track in the game.
ruclips.net/video/_FvOpAhugsM/видео.html
I completely missed the news about Alec Holowka. As I listen to Church Hill, I can't help but feel immense sadness at another artist being taken from us. Rest in peace, friend, I wish you'd stay a little while longer.
I've had 11:13 as my ringtone for about three years now haha
I know this is a old comment buuut i need to know where you found this clip of sound to make a ringtone out of! I love it!
@@donutwolf9547 convert a video of that song to mp3 and cut it yourself, then send it to your phone.
11:14
Yeah! This song is really good.
I use 8:30 moment as my alarm.
@@92JJB oh ok! thanks that makes a lot pf sense
Rest in peace. Alec Holowka. your game helped me to gaze inside of my heart and healed my soul.
Holy shcrap the title song got my blood running. AND ITS JUST THE FIRST SONG IN THE SOUNDTRACK!!
TrustMeAdam title is my personal favourite.
lol these songs make me relax
bruh, your blood is gonna run anyways, whether you listen to the soundtrack or not xD
I love fireflies on the porch!
+Raider Fox listen to "Maybe"
Vicious Studios Ok, what time is it in? Also, is it possible to get the track I want alone?
Raider Fox mae the firefly cat
I was just listening to it when I saw your comment and I agree
After all these years after seeing Jacksepticeye play this, this music still makes me so emotional. Rip Alec Holowka. ;-;
20:24 is ultimate relaxation
More like ultimate sadness.
The bass in this song is so calming
Idk why, but everytime I listen to this song I wanna cry
There were many times I heard mentions of Night in the Woods, predominantly from Jacksepticeye. I never watched his videos of the game, but his absolute praise and love for it always stuck with me. I finally decided to pull the trigger on this game the other week to see what all the fuss was about, and boy was I not aware of how this game was going to hit me.
My late teens and early 20s was a horrible period in my life. I was aimless, hopeless, and becoming further isolated from those I was friends with as the years went by. I saw a lot of myself in Mae, and I understood so much of how she felt throughout the game. What really stuck with me was her mom reminding Mae that your relationships need to be watered if it has any hope of growing. I'm slowly getting back into a better place in my life attending college again, but that hit me like a truck. I took a lot of people for granted, and when that didn't happen, I was too anxious/depressed to keep watering many of my friendships. And they died.
Towards the end of the game as [spoilers] several characters were moving on with their lives and leaving others behind, I was starting to feel emotional being reminded of how I essentially floated through a whole decade of my life. A lot can change in that time. A lot can change in just two weeks, as Mae witnessed. Nothing in life is permanent, and we truly do need to ask ourselves what we will hold onto, and what we must let go of.
Don't waste your time on people/things that don't make you happy. But don't become detached from everything in pessimistic-nihilism. You always get a choice in what you do and who you spend time with. And that will 100% shape your future and who you become. Please always remember that you have a choice.
This game perfectly captures the complex and often conflicting emotions that come with moving back to your home town. But more than that i think also works very well as a representation of life in your mid to late 20s. Particularity for those of us who grew up to find life nothing like we imagined it would be.
There becomes a great temptation to burrow further and further into nostalgia, remembering a glorious and wonderful past that never really existed. And the more you reach for it the more disappointment and detachment you find because time moves on regardless. It doesn't care about any of our foolish concerns. There was an old coffee shop in my town that was the hang out spot for nerds, the owner would let you take up a booth in the back all day for a cup of coffee. I had so many formative experiences in my youth there, so many interesting conversations. Friendships forged and occasionally lost. When i came back from Uni it had been bulldozed to make way for some new apartments. When i saw that, in that moment i just felt trapped beneath the unstoppable wheels of time. That something so important to me was just gone felt wrong. And it can't ever be revived, even if i met some of my high school friends in a coffee shop in that town today they'd all be talking about their jobs, houses and kids. That moment in time and the people that populated it are gone. And so that place and all the memories attached to it will just fade away. It makes me so sad sometimes to think about all the little things like that i've lost but i also know if you only focus on what you've lost you will go mad.
Sorry for the ramble, the game just brings up a lot of emotions. Which is a good thing. It remains one of my favorite games and the soundtrack is a perfect accompaniment for when i'm feeling sad and nostalgic.
I love Cat God! Cat God is my new religion
CAT GOD!!!
Astral train is waaaay better
YAS
didn't expect to see you here :0
im a total trash mammal
- northflower probably
I bought this game totally on a whim knowing nothing about it. Absolutely zero regrets. I love it so much.
This game still feels really important even 3 years later
All good games now are just in the 2016-2018 age (with exceptions)
Night in the Woods will be analised in the 22 century's literature classes as one of the best depictions of the young adult struggle to fit in a society that they do not understand. In the history of mankind there wasn't a better and more deep deconstruction of existential dread and "meaning of life". This game is simply a masterpiece
Agreed this game is like the perfect period piece for what it was like to come of age in the post-financial crash, pre-covid years. It's like a classic novel but for zillennials lol
nice to see Vicious studies still read the comments and stay connected with fans two years on
yeahh
I hadn't heard it in awhile and when I heard it again it felt like home
this soundtrack rulz ok
I have lived away from my hometown for almost 10 years now, alone, in a big city. I understand the feeling of isolation that Mae felt coming back to Possum Spring. Home felt safe and dangerous both at the same time when I failed college and everybody keeps asking about how much I'm making a month.
I really appreciate how you mixed the tracks to flow from one to the next, rather than having breaks between them. It creates some really nice continuous background. Just wanted to say thank you for that little detail ^-^
Also, as a person who notoriously enters fandoms late, it's quite nice to actually see firsthand how this game is taking off! I'm really enjoying it and I hope that the fans don't ruin it for newcomers.
When the nights draw in, the leaves rest on the ground and autumn comes around, I will always think of this game with fond memories. What a game, soundtrack & ultimately a piece of art ❤️
Rainy Town is so relaxing and peaceful. It almost has a sort of melancholic tone to it. And the piano is just super calming.
whoa "graveyard main" is INCREDIBLE
sorry if i'm a bit late, rest in peace Alec, is thanks of people with this kind of talent that i will always keep in m heart titles like Night in the woods, for me your loss was and still has to be considered as disgrace for every artistic medium, many sees death just as the end of everything, others believe in some kind of reward or punishment for every action committed in life and, finally, some people believe that it's nothing as a passage to the unknown, in any case, whatever lies after, i really hope for you to be remembered in this world for your work by as much people as possible, for it's thanks of the memories of us, impressed in still breathings people, that we are allowed to keep existing in this world after our passing.
A game about animals made out of shapes has such wonderful, deep story and one of the most unique soundtrack.
The soundtrack gives me sooooo many feels tbh because i live in an area similar to possum springs. A small dead-end village in the middle of nowhere surrounded by woods. Small local cafes, pizza places, small local shops and a tall church that looks extremely similar to the one in possum springs. Especially because i first saw this game in autumn. I love this game sooo much. A lot of the characters are similar to some people i know too. Theres nothing to do here but its a nice place. ALWAYS roadwork. I just hope one day ill have friends and we'll be able to do stuff together like mae and her friends.
God that is exactly how I want to live.
@@adventure_junkie5340 Easier said than done. It's charming 5% of the time, but it mostly sucks the air out of you. Although, some people would rather die than leave this place. I suppose it depends.
This game changed my perspective on friendship and love, sure, it allowed me to see I had no friends, but then someone walked out of the crowd, and asked me if I wanted to hang out at the movies, we just started hanging out, he would play and laugh with me and I would here him out and help him during class, he was and still is my friend, my Greg🙂
NITW seriously has one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard. Every piece has so much love and care put into it. It all flows so well and sounds so beautiful. To this day I'm salty because I feel like this game never got the attention and attraction it deserved. It's a wonderful masterpiece.
Kind of obsessed with this game at the moment. God the music and characters are so good. Gregg is the best and bonding with Bea was great. Lori tracks all the way!
I'm not usually one for visual novels, but this game hit harder than a freight train for me. I originally played it back in 2017 and thought it was just a neat game, but I recently played through it again, and it was hauntingly relatable. I don't think there's anything that captures longing for the past, uncertainty about the future, changing relationships, and the utter meaninglessness of our universe like NITW.
At the end of everything, hold on to anything.
Astral Coal is my favorite one, hands down.
mine too, its the best. I have listened to it at least 100 times by now
Astral Alley is my favourite :L
Starfoxleader101 me to
astral alley is good, i am still not sure what song is my favorite.
Me too!!!!
The funny thing is, when I was playing the game the soundtrack didn't stand out to me that much. But now, listening to the town theme and the band songs, I want to cry. RIP Alec and Casey
This game brought me back in touch with my humanity and back to life as you could say, it felt like I was breathing for the first time in ages. Life in the world hasn't been kind to me, and every time I took a blow from life it felt like I started losing what made me *me*. Things got so bad where I was desperate to desensitize myself from feeling anything, I was falling away from everything but then I found this gem. All I needed was someone to relate to, someone who was in deep just like I was, Who was a mess like I was. it really helped me remember that the sun will always rise again, that we are never alone in our struggles and pains. My world lost its color, but walking through possum springs brought it back. Every time I came back I found myself feeling happier with every visit. Would it be alright to say that I shed a tear for myself for the first time in ages? Because that's what happened. in the past I said I wouldn't cry again as a young kid, and since then I never did. Life took so much of a toll on me back then that I convinced myself that my tears were meaningless, worthless and no matter how much I've struggled I wouldn't amount to anything. As time flew by in years, It felt like I was dying inside but then by some kind of chance or miracle I found this place, the characters the whole entire thing was melting away the walls I made and was buried behind. So I will stand up and say it, this brought me back from the brink of despair. It cleared the illusions from my heart and mind, and I am ever so appreciative of that. Because in a way this saved me from never being alive again, so thank you so much from the very bottom of my heart to everyone who came together and brought this masterpiece to life as well as bringing me and many others who've been hurt back from the dark. My best wishes for a happy future to you and everyone, I hope to see more of the greatness that made this possible. I want to see more games like this, because we never see anything like this in the gaming industry. A story/game that heals, who would have thought we needed something like this so badly
I listened through the whole thing and marked some of my favorites, specifically underrated songs.
Graveyard Main (32:56)
Bridge (39:53)
Mallards Tomb (52:59)
Outskirts (59:05)
Mae's House P 3 (1:39:22)
DT Leafy Graves: (1:41:41)
DT Cemetery 5 Grounds (2:30:34)
Well Woods (2:42:19)
DT Final Boss (2:57:52)
End Credits (3:19:34)
Of course the intro, all town parts, the astral songs, and band practices songs are all great too but these ones are some that might get overlooked :)
Just because the two games are in the indie genre doesn't mean undertale and night in the woods are better or worse than each other. Stop comparing them and pitting them against each other. They are both lovely games in their own right
This music is a million familiar strangers.
This music is innocence and hopelessness.
Somehow just those last notes of the credits are just...perfect. They bring a finality, yet having those last moving notes after the last chord create the feel that this is not the end.
love the Angus theme…
23:57 Angus Constellation
46:35 Angus IQ
01:55:16 Angus Home
02:17:17 Videostore Music
My favorite part about NITW's OST is the constant theme from the trailer playing all throughout the score, from the Title screen to Town 2, there's always a subtle reminder of that melody.
If you want, try finding it in all of the tracks ;D
I'm having anxiety because of this whole COVID-19 situation, this soundtrack is helping me a lot.
Sometimes I have weird feeling. I can't explain it very well. It happens when I recall a game, movie or tv show, and not only the title comes to mind but everything that I liked about it comes to mind. I feel nice for a few seconds, as if I swallowed a cloud of happiness or as if something warm hugged me when I recalled just the name, and I feel like I am in the specific setting and I live in this memory for a moment. Does this make sense? Does this happen to anyone else? As if every good game or tv show you've seen have their own place in your brain. Is it nostalgia? My point is that night in the woods gives me this warm feeling.
To me its a feeling that I could die right now and I'd be happy just from having experienced this
yes!!
Deja vu?
It's called being happily nostalgic
I experience something similar from time to time. Its like you realise that you are not in the place you have to be, and that you are not who you really are. But this realisation isn't sad or frightening, instead it makes you *feel* like *that* person living in *that* world. Kind of like remembering something that never happened
This game is amazing. They captured small town and moving back to one perfectly.
Seriously such an amazing game. Perspective-changing
Night In The Woods is an unsung masterpiece and I feel it will only become more important as time goes on. I’m glad we all got to experience this game and these characters.
A game that speaks so much of my life, too big for my tiny mind to fathom. A kickstarter project that extends beyond the norm. A creation that resonates in the depths of the heart. What a remarkable achievement! I love this game so much
This OST always blended beautifully with the game. It was clear that whoever made it not only understood the premise, but also felt it while composing it.
A real shame that we lost someone with such passion, but we should all be grateful that we got to experience it
I want to thank the team behind this game.
If it hadn’t been for the hard work and sacrifices they poured into seeing this game through we would’ve never experienced it.
That said, on a personal note.
I want to thank you guys so much, if it hadn’t been for your game/ story, I wouldn’t have realized I was falling in a hole and alienating myself from old friends, family, and life in general. I played this game around late November, early December 2019. Sought out friends I had drifted away from, family I had been distant from on purpose, and to be more comfortable around strangers from my small town (less than 2,000 ppl), all thanks to the experiences in your work. I was able to make my peace with my grandmother who I hardly ever saw throughout my life as she sadly passed away Christmas of 2019. I want to thank you again and again for helping me realize that life isn’t or can’t be me against the world. That I need to let people in and accept what comes as it comes. I’m a 19 year old guy with a whole life ahead of him and weirdly enough your work taught me to enjoy the small things in life. I’m losing my train of thought now but I want to leave you with this.
Thank you to the team behind this work for helping me deal with some bad jazz and working it out slowly, I’m glad to say I’m looking forward to life and strengthening my relationships with those in my life. Every time I listen to the soundtrack I get a warm fuzzy feeling that spreads through my chest and limbs and feel invigorated to go out and enjoy life with friends, family , and complete strangers. Because at the end of everything hold on to anything.
Rip in pepperoni Alec Holowka, May you find peace in the afterlife and if you see my grandma could you tell her I love her?
R.I.P Alec Holowka спасибо за этот прекрасный шедевр, ты всегда будешь в наших сердцах
Eben'Grad не забудет тебя Алек
My friend showed me this game and I fell in love with it. The setting, the story, the music and the characters. Astonishingly, I have depression, I play bass, and I'm outta college, like Mae. My significant other is logical but socially distanced from others, like Germ. it's odd how games find ways into our lives...
RIP Alec Holowka
1983-2019
NITW gave me so much feelings. I really loved this game, just everything about is so beautiful. You could really relate to some characters! And in my opion I found this soundtrack so chill and beautiful, it makes me calm in every way :)
Honestly gotta be one of the best games I've ever played.
Can't believe we will never hear his beautiful music again. My heart is still broken.
This soundtrack gave me so much happiness in dark times past :(
The knife fight song is just amazing.
I can't get over how amazing the soundtrack is, this is truly a gift to anyone willing to listen. I love the game and it wouldn't even be close to the masterpiece that it is if it didn't have this amazing track to go with it.
Even if Alec Holowka can't ever see this, I'm going to say, thank you, for this incredible piece, from all the people who played the game and listened to this. Thank you, Infinite Fall, Finji, all the developers for the game, everyone who worked on this project, you are all amazing people with incredible talent, I can see the love in every bit of the work you put out, so, thank you, from the bottom of my heart.
May your soul rest in piece, Alec Holowka.
This game will forever be legendary rip alec
I worship you.
bless your soul.
I love you.
So .. it's almost a year since everything ... and i still feel like it only happened a few weeks ago ... it was hard to come back to the OST, thinking about what had happened, but now .. its always close to me ... as a memento, a memory, of something that should always be remembered, no matter what happened ...
RiP Alec H.
Gone .. but not forgotten ..
Years later, I still come back to this. This game means a lot and the music in it is just so wonderful, and has the best feels. Great music for the start of another Autumn
I don't know what it is about NITW, but the game has so stayed with me. I want to hang out with the characters, know how they're doing, like they were real. Listening to this wonderful soundtrack brings back memories and makes me want so hard to return to Possum Springs.
I'm listening to this rn at 1 am in my dorm. It's making me so nostalgic for those days full of stress post spring break pre final during school. This game was my only escape from that. When I heard Town Part 1 I honestly teared up. NITW feels like home.
Hey, me from the past. Right now I'm listening to this at 4:30 pm in my ACTUAL dorm, not the dorm of a summer program like it was when you wrote this. You're at real college now, studying real animation. You love your roommates and your new friends, and to be honest you've never been this happy. But things are still hard. Things have been really, really hard since you first wrote this comment. But one thing hasn't changed- when I heard the first note of Town Part 1, I immediately got hit with such a strong emotion that I almost broke down crying. Night in the woods still feels like home to you, still feels like home to me. Even though my definition of home has changed a lot in the past few years, and right now I'm in a new home, far away from my other home. Night in the woods is still home. Stay strong little sophie. We will make it someday. I love you.
@@sophiegm6736 Heyy now I didnt ask to cry today!!!! This is so sweet oml
anyone else really like "Angus Constellation"?
hell yes i love it
Love that one and the transition into Cloud Vacation is beautiful
m E
Of course!
R.I.P. Alec Holowka. Thanks for making this beautiful project.
town part 2 is my favourite by far, gives me that calm but happy autumn-y feel :) love this game so much, wish i took the time to play it for myself instead of watching youtubers play it haha
I cannot get over this soundtrack. It is deceptively simple and unbelievably good. I am now playing bass because of it.
This soundtrack kept me alive while I worked on my senior thesis. I made a side scrolling pixel art game and it took my soul out of me, working day and night until I was more burned out and exhausted than I’ve ever been before.
I had this soundtrack on loop while I sat and drew and animated and programmed and worked through the night, went to bed and then repeated it again the next day for months.
The soft melody and gently hopeful vibes kept me calm and happy during a time where I should’ve been stressed and crying constantly. Thank you for sharing and for creating such a cute and memorable mix 💖
I love this game so much. It has such a weird, awkward but also familiar feel to it. Even the music communicates this and I love it.
One thing I love about the soundtrack is that there's actually a bass in most of the tracks. It's like we're listening to music from Mae's perspective
Ah freak, there we go again im here one more and it hits hard. Smiling and crying...
Music is the language of the soul. I never met Holowka, but from listening to these tracks, we've talked so much and I feel as if I've lost a friend.
Thank you for bringing such joy and tranquility to my every day life. This soundtrack really speaks to me on an emotional level, whenever I hear it, I feel like I'm standing up the street of a small town, on a foggy Autumn morning, with damp pavement and leafs all around.
Rest in Peace Alec Holowka, thank you for the groove.
R.I.P. Alec Holowka - Your work will be remembered