WILL: A Wonderful World - Soundtrack

I keep coming back to the WILL: A Wonderful World soundtrack the same way I return to a good short story collection: it is small, deliberately curated, and each piece earns its place. Seven tracks is not a lot, but that number tells you something important before you even press play. WMY Studio confirmed in their own Steam forums that the majority of the in-game music was licensed from royalty-free libraries and therefore could not be sold. What you are getting here is the exclusively original work, the compositions that the developer owned outright and chose to stand behind as representative of the game's identity. That context matters. The original music was composed primarily by TetraCalyx, with additional contributions from XiaoXu Music. The tracks anchor the game's two tonal poles: the quiet melancholy of ordinary lives fraying at the edges, and the stranger, more ethereal register of Myth and Willy's divine existence above the city. One of the centrepiece tracks, "Lost Memories," carried enough emotional weight that it was later adapted and added to the rhythm game MUSYNX, a crossover the developer described as genuinely moving to hear reimagined. That kind of quiet afterlife for a piece of music tells you it resonated beyond its original context. The honest caveat is that seven tracks, even at lossless FLAC quality, is a lean package for a standalone purchase. Players who fell hardest for the moody licensed library cues tied to specific character storylines, like the tracks accompanying Jimmy's letters or Li Wen's arc, will find those absent here, because the studio could not redistribute them. That gap is real. If you want the complete sonic atmosphere of your playthrough, you would need to hunt down individual tracks through Shockwave-sound.com, where much of the licensed material originated. The OST DLC is specifically for the six or seven pieces that belong to WMY Studio alone. For the right buyer, though, FLAC is not a trivial detail. These are small-studio compositions that deserve to be heard at full resolution rather than compressed into the ambient noise of a gameplay session. The vocal tracks in particular, which feature performed vocals rather than purely instrumental work, hold up as standalone listening. If WILL: A Wonderful World left a mark on you and you want the pieces of its original score in a format you can take anywhere and play properly, this DLC does exactly what it says. It does not oversell itself, which, for a two-person studio releasing their first major title, feels about right.

Kai · Scout Team

Indie & narrative

Be the first to comment on WILL: A Wonderful World - Soundtrack.