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  1. 1Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017)Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (2017) 8.4/10 on IGDBReleased 7 Aug 2017Voices crowd Senua, disagree with one another and move between apparent intimacy and distance. Ninja Theory recorded them binaurally, making headphone listening especially revealing: where a voice seems to be can matter as much as what it says. The result places uncertainty inside the act of…0
  2. 2Oxenfree (2016)Oxenfree (2016) 7.6/10 on IGDBReleased 14 Jan 2016A portable radio turns static, fragments of speech and changes in frequency into a way of contacting the island's past. Tuning is an action you perform, so the strange voices arrive through something Alex is actually holding. Meanwhile, overlapping teenage conversation keeps the ordinary…0
  3. 3Outer Wilds (2019)Outer Wilds (2019) 8.9/10 on IGDBReleased 28 May 2019The signalscope lets you locate other travellers through the instruments they play. Their small, recognisable performances give distant points in the solar system a personal identity before you reach them. Listening becomes a way of reading space and feeling connected across it. This refers to the…0
  4. 4Unheard (2019)Unheard (2019) 7.0/10 on IGDBReleased 29 Mar 2019Conversations are the evidence. Move through a crime-scene recording, follow one speaker, then rewind to hear what another person was saying elsewhere at the same moment. The relationship between a voice, its location and its timing does work that a conventional clue inventory would usually handle.…0
  5. 5Firewatch (2016)Firewatch (2016) 7.9/10 on IGDBReleased 9 Feb 2016A radio voice can feel close while its owner remains physically far away. Delilah's filtered replies, gaps in conversation and the ordinary sounds of Henry walking through the forest make that contradiction the basis of a relationship. Listen to how a pause changes an exchange before treating every…0
  6. 6Tacoma (2017)Tacoma (2017) 7.1/10 on IGDBReleased 2 Aug 2017Recorded crew members split into different rooms, taking their conversations with them. Following one voice means temporarily missing another, so replaying a scene changes your understanding of its people. Brightskull's production used moving ensemble performances rather than only isolated voice…0
  7. 7Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015)Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015) 7.2/10 on IGDBReleased 11 Aug 2015An empty village keeps speaking through telephones, radios and traces of conversations attached to its places. Voices make a house or footpath feel occupied by a particular relationship, even when nobody is standing there. The choral music is striking, but the more revealing comparison is between…0
  8. 8Season: A Letter to the Future (2023)Season: A Letter to the Future (2023) 7.8/10 on IGDBReleased 31 Jan 2023Estelle carries a sound recorder as well as a camera, letting you preserve a place through what it sounds like. A recording can hold a detail that a photograph cannot, and choosing what enters the journal makes attention part of the story's concern with memory. It offers a gentler route into this…0
  9. 9The Last Guardian (2016)The Last Guardian (2016) 8.2/10 on IGDBReleased 6 Dec 2016Trico's whines, rumbles and answering calls turn an enormous creature into a companion whose mood you try to understand. The boy's calls are small by comparison, and their echoes keep reminding you of the scale of the ruins around them. Sound designer Derrick Espino has described using recordings…0
  10. 10Hellblade II: Senua's Saga (2024)Hellblade II: Senua's Saga (2024) 7.9/10 on IGDBReleased 21 May 2024The sequel expands the contrast between close voices and the acoustic space of its Icelandic landscapes. Caverns, open ground, breath and violent movement give Senua's body a changing relationship to the world around her. Listen to that scale as well as the words beside your ears. Compared with the…0