Summary
- Rift Of The NecroDancer’s music is its star, with a wide variety of tracks at various difficulties – keeping players engaged.
- Some standout tracks include Morning Dove, Baboosh, and Amalgamaniac – offering challenging, engaging, and intense gameplay experiences.
- Tracks like Elusional, Matriarch, Glass Cages, and Suzu’s Quest showcase the game’s diverse range of intense and satisfying music.
Being a rhythm game through and through, it’s no wonder that the star of Rift Of The NecroDancer is its soundtrack. While its unique approach of attacking various monsters to the beat is entertaining, it’s the music that you’re following that keeps you coming back for more.
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For a game that uses a wholly original soundtrack, it’s even more impressive that there is such a wide selection of music to play through at various difficulty levels. While Rift Of The NecroDancer has a generally consistent level of quality throughout all of its songs, there are some that we can’t help but keep coming back to.
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Morning Dove
By Sam Webster & Nick Nausbaum
For a song that appears so early on in the campaign, it’s surprising to see just how fast the pace is for Morning Dove, making it a potential challenge for some players. But with its calm and consistent melody, it’s easy to remain chill while playing through it.
The rhythm pattern you’ll need to match isn’t too tricky either, since it’s easy to get lost in the rhythm and follow along. However, with the speed, you want to make sure that you don’t slip up, since it can be pretty tough to catch up to the 170 beats per minute.
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Baboosh
By Danny Baranowsy & Josie Brechner
Sitting right near the end of the campaign is Baboosh, and at 174bpm and 12x intensity on medium difficulty, it’s a tough test of everything you’ve learned throughout the game. While it isn’t the hardest track by quite a margin, it’s definitely one of the most enjoyable and climactic.
The aggressive song liberally uses mystery traps to hide the monsters that are coming your way, making the song quite stressful to play through at points. However, they end up being used in relatively simple patterns, making them easy enough to cope with. The liberal use of wyrms also makes the powerful track a little easier to play through, since they’ll often take whole rows out of commission for a short while, making it easier to concentrate on the more active monsters.
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Amalgamaniac
By Alex Moukala
In spite of showing up as early as the second chapter of the campaign, Amalagamaniac (as the name suggests) is one of the more intense songs you’ll play through. However, with its incredibly catchy hook, it becomes one of the most satisfying tracks to rhythmically take out every monster in your way to.
Amalgamaniac is also one of the few tracks to fully take advantage of fire traps, making the ground-based enemies speed up after passing through. This makes these fierce moments of the song stand out even more, further cementing it as one of the more engaging songs to play through in the game.
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Elusional
By Jules Conroy
Rift Of The NecroDancer stands out for its intense tracks that will have your fingers sweating by the time you’ve finally managed to beat them, and that’s what makes Elusional stand out in comparison.
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Showing up early on in chapter one, this 95bpm and 6x intensity track is a nice break from the fire and brimstone of the rest of the game. It can still be more of a challenge at higher difficulties, but if you’re looking for something to play as a break after beating a particularly challenging level, then this is the best option.
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Matriarch
By Jules Conroy
Chapter three of Rift Of The NecroDancer’s campaign features some of the toughest tracks in the game, and one of the best examples of this is Matriarch, named after the chapter’s antagonist. The powerful track perfectly captures the intense struggle against Matriarch, with electric guitars dominating the melody.
Even on standard difficulty, the 145bpm track is no joke, with every variety of harpy and armadillos forcing you to stay on your toes at all times. While the beat is simple enough to keep track of, everything comes hard and fast, so this isn’t one to take lightly.
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Suzu’s Quest
By Sam Webster & Nick Nausbaum
While you would usually expect the hardest sections of a game to come right at the end, some of the most challenging tracks in Rift Of The NecroDancer actually come with its penultimate fourth chapter. Suzu’s Quest is one of the best examples of this.
You might be lulled into a false sense of security with the beat starting off relatively simple and different monsters introduced at a digestible pace. But the track doesn’t let up, and new monsters keep getting layered up on top of each other, making the ominous track harder and harder to keep up with. While this track could easily feel like a roadblock, once you master it, Suzu’s Quest becomes one of the most satisfying to finally beat.
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Glass Cages
By Josie Brechner Feat. Sarah Hubbard
There are plenty of fantastic tracks throughout all of Rift Of The NecroDancer, but a clear stand-out is Glass Cages. The reason for this is the melancholic hook of the track paired with the fantastic violin work of Sarah Hubbard.
It’s one of the catchiest songs in the game, with the pacing effortlessly switching from intense bursts to calming lulls. Even on medium difficulty, matching the offbeat slimes and doubled up harpies proves to be a challenge, but this is one track that you’ll happily retry for another chance to listen to it.
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Om And On
By Alex Moukala
Appearing so early in the game, Om And On is a high point for Rift Of The NecroDancer. While it doesn’t have the same intensity of the songs that dominate the late-game, the high-tempo, fun electro beat is infectious enough to encourage you to keep coming back to it.
Since it shows up early on in the campaign, Om And On isn’t one of the hardest tracks, but thanks to it’s perfect rhythm mapping, it’s always enjoyable to play through. Even if it does stick out a little from the rest of the tracks, it still feels cohesive enough to feel less like an outlier and more of an outstanding highlight.
- Released
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February 5, 2025
- Developer(s)
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Brace Yourself Games, Tic Toc Games
- Publisher(s)
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Klei Entertainment
- ESRB
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E for Everyone