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Description
What Grows Between Us
You are the estranged child of a woman you never quite understood, and now she's gone. All she's left behind is a run-down store deep in the wilderness, a place you never once visited while she was still here. You arrive expecting dust and mold, but instead find overgrown gardens bristling with quiet magic, shelves of unfinished recipes and a business that seems to be waiting for someone to pick it back up. As you rebuild, you find pieces of her, pieces of yourself, and a community that's been waiting for someone to bring the shop back to life.
What Grows Between Us is a cozy life-sim about rebuilding what was left behind, and discovering the people who make it worth keeping.
Track Info:
Mom's Lullaby: The wistful tune of a music box you found on mom's desk. It brings back forgotten memories...
Here Comes Trouble...: A kooky whirlwind of a theme. Something's already on fire, or about to be. She waltzes in like the mess isn't hers to clean up, and but it usually is. Loud and a little bit dangerous to be around, the wayward aunt beckons...
A Happy Mistake/A Little Magic: Two jingles that play after a puff of smoke and a lil' pizzaz. One for the perfect batch and the other for better luck next time!
Muscle Memory: The quiet ache of familiarity, as the shop becomes less of a duty and more of a home. In every motion, the shape of who you're slowly becoming.
The Quiet Country: The world slows down, just a little, as the outdoors settle in around you. Lights flicker faint in the distance, and somewhere in the quiet work of the land, a little peace finds its way in.
Message from the artist
Thank you for listening, would love feedback!
Theme
Songs of a Forgotten World
How does it fit the theme?
What Grows Between Us represents the theme through the relationship between the player and their mother. In the process of reopening the shop and tending the garden, the player doesn't just recover memories, they uncover a forgotten world of magic and confront a relationship that was never resolved. The hands-on nature of the gameplay, planting, brewing, crafting, mirrors this dual rediscovery: each task is both a literal act of rebuilding and a step toward understanding who their mother was, and who they themselves were before the estrangement.
Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/adrian-lo-563589155/sets/what-grows-between-us-ost
Number of tracks
5
Genre
Soundtrack use permission
Yes (CC BY-NC)Any non-commercial project
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