The Grave Seasons Soundtrack

Who writes the music

Two people. Suvi Savikko is Grave Seasons' Art & Audio Director, and Gisula is the game's composer. The devlog frames the pairing as a deliberate clash of backgrounds: "We all come from different musical backgrounds. We're all making farming sim music, but we're making music that we like, and that's what's making this soundtrack special."

Note that Savikko holds both art and audio direction, which is unusual and explains why the score and the pixel art pull in the same tonal direction - cozy on the surface, wrong underneath.

The Main Theme came first

The Main Theme is described as the team's "meatiest and most difficult track to date," and it was the very first piece composed. Perfect Garbage say it embodies the whole journey of the game, pulling on its design philosophy, folklore and story.

Gisula's approach to structure is worth quoting because it explains why the soundtrack is not wall-to-wall intensity: "I'm a very visual person when I'm composing. Imagine this as a story structure, right? You have the climax of it there and you have to have your little ebbs and flows. If the song is big the whole time, then you don't really feel the impact."

Every season has a day version and a night version

This is the most useful structural detail in the devlog. The seasonal themes are split in two, and the split is also a split between composers:

• Daytime themes - composed by Gisula.
• Nighttime themes - composed by Suvi Savikko, riffing on the daytime version's key or chord progression and putting a darker spin on it.

Savikko's stated intent for the night versions: "You want to create the impression that things are a little less safe now...a little more ambiguous. You're no longer in that sweet and safe farming sim territory. You're in uncharted waters."

That lines up exactly with what the studio confirmed about the day and night cycle - there is no forced bedtime, and the game wants you out after dark. The music is built to tell you that you have crossed a line.

It is mostly live instrumentation

The devlog is specific about how the tracks were recorded, and the answer is "with actual instruments." Gisula's figure: many tracks are "90-95% live, 100% live instrumentation and mostly acoustic, so that we get that really organic feel to it." The stated goal was groundedness - making the world feel real rather than sampled.

Confirmed experiments listed in the post:

• Nylon and steel-string guitars.
• Layered live percussion.
• Blended electric and acoustic cello textures.

Two Easter eggs the studio told on themselves

• At least one seasonal theme spells out the name of its season in Morse code, layered into the track.
• Gisula recorded live bird ambience in Nashville and layered it in - the devlog's joke being that all birds there sing in perfect key.

If you like hunting that kind of thing, the Morse-code detail is a genuine listening target at launch. The devlog does not say which season it applies to, so treat any specific claim about that as unverified.

What is not confirmed

The devlog previewed four tracks in an accompanying video, but Perfect Garbage have not published a track list, a total runtime, or any plan for a separate soundtrack release on Steam, Bandcamp or streaming services. There is also no statement about whether music is diegetic anywhere in Ashenridge, or how combat and murder-mystery beats are scored.

Anything you see claiming a full Grave Seasons OST track list before launch is not coming from the developers.

Where this fits

The music is the clearest expression of the game's whole design bet: a farming sim that keeps the comfort and then quietly removes it. For the visual half of the same idea, see the map of Ashenridge; for the systems the night themes are scoring, the day and night cycle. Suvi Savikko's other half of the job - shaping how Ashenridge looks - is covered in the art style devlog.