Celeste Dev's Canceled Game Lives On, Sort Of

The Celeste dev's next game, Earthblade, was canceled back in December 2024. While players now won't get a chance to check out the game, its composer uploaded several songs that were supposed to be part of its soundtrack.

The collection of songs is titled "Across the Bounds of Fate," and it runs for about 30 minutes and costs $7. It's composed by Lena Raine, the same composer behind Celeste. "Because we’ll never get a chance to tell that story in game form, I decided to cobble together every bit of music I’d written for the game to the point of its cancellation in order to tell my own version of it," Raine explained on her Bandcamp page.

She said that Across the Bounds of Fate is a concept album and highly dynamic, similar to what she composed for Celeste. She also explained that its overall sound was inspired by older animation and film, such as the Yamaha synths of used by Vangelis, famous for Blade Runner's music.

Additionally, she was inspired by the old synths and live strings of Joe Hisaishi's score for the Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, as well as Yoko Kanno's work on both Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.

50% of all sales for the album will be donated to Trans Lifeline.

Earthblade was first revealed back in 2021 and was slated for a 2024 release, but was delayed. Ultimately, it was canceled due to disagreements surrounding the Celeste IP rights and the departure of founding member Pedro Medeiros.