Vintage Story Original Soundtrack
| Vintage Story Original Soundtrack |
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| Music |
| Music Artist: Lo-Phi |
| Released: June 11, 2017 |
| Genre: Instrumental, Orchestral, Electronic, Chiptunes, Soundtrack |
| Length: 3:09:28 |
| Producer: Hayden Davenport |
| Graphics |
| Artwork Artist: Jessie Rogers |
| Logo Artist: Nachtfalter |
| Misc |
| Current Version: 1.31.17 |
Vintage Story Original Soundtrack is composed by Hayden Davenport under the pseudonym [Lo-Phi] (pronounced /loʊ'faɪ/).
The album was first released on the Bandcamp platform on June 11, 2017.
The current publicly available version of the soundtrack has 41 music tracks. It is updated periodically to reflect the music assets found within Vintage Story, and is available to purchase at Bandcamp with a "name your price" option (this includes $0.00).
Track listing
Vintage Story Original Soundtrack
- The Setting Sun
- Night to Day
- Mirror
- Groove
- Vintage Story
- Sunny Village
- Through the Grass at Night
- Adventuring
- To Dawn, from a Very Rainy Night
- Building
- Creating
- Peaceful Village
- Nostalgic
- Midnight
- Heartbeat
- Tuning Cylinder - The Seraphs
- Winter
- Daylight
- Quirky Tavern
- Cultured Tavern
- Hallowcroft
- Fall-o'-croft
- Summer Day
- Roots
- Tuning Cylinder - The Invention
- Spring
- Radiance and Rust
- Eidolon Battle
- The Resonance Archives (Library)
- Arctic Winds
- Fall
- Windy Village
- Chilly Village
- Summer Stroll (High Activity Version)
- Tenacious
- The Lazaret
- Devastation
- Nadiya (Spring)
- Nadiya (Summer)
- Nadiya (Fall)
- Nadiya (Winter)
Streaming
The Vintage Story Original Soundtrack can be streamed for free via Lo-Phi's bandcamp or YouTube. A highly-limited vinyl record release of the soundtrack is also being considered.
The official Vintage Story Original Soundtrack playlist on YouTube is linked below:
Instrumentation & Production
The Vintage Story original soundtrack heavily features bell-like piano and tine sounds, as well as (often downsampled) sound libraries, soundfonts, hardware synthesizers (like Roland's Juno-DS88, and ASM's Hydrasynth), and software synthesizers (such as Logic Pro's Alchemy, Arturia's Pigments, and Native Instruments' Massive). Story-related tracks tend to either feature more orchestral instruments, especially string sections, or gritty percussion and synth-heavy atmospheric foundations (depending on the underlying story elements the music is related to). With the exception of the guitar parts in Spring, Fall, and Devastation (performed by Lo-Phi), all of the instruments are controlled via MIDI within the Logic Pro (versions X and 11) DAW, and were mixed/mastered by Lo-Phi.
Music Spawning
Currently, most of the music (excluding the Deep Underground music) spawns client-side based on a simple daily schedule within each game mode. Each track has a set range of in-game time in which it can start playing. A few of the tracks follow a more complex scheduling procedure, depending on factors such as season, location, or meeting specific in-game conditions.
Deep Underground music is generated on the fly when the code determines that a player is underground. It works by piecing together bits of pre-rendered chromatic musical material. Occasionally a full piece of music utilizing the same instrumentation will be selected instead.
Future Updates
Since the album has only been released digitally, Lo-Phi periodically updates the soundtrack online. There are a few tracks that can only be played in-game; there are plans to include these in an alternate version of the soundtrack eventually. Lo-Phi has also stated that he would eventually like the in-game music generation system to be more complex.
Additional Information / Trivia
- The "Survive and Build" and "Creative Building" modes have slightly different soundtracks. While there is a large amount of of overlap, some tracks are only found in one mode, while other tracks have separate versions depending on which mode the player is playing.
- The in-game block called "Echo Chamber" contains a hidden reference to the game's composer, Lo-Phi, and enables players to listen to the songs by placing a resonance archive on the echo chamber.
- The soundtrack's order is largely based on the order in which each piece of music was composed.
- The soundtrack has many instances of self-referential musical passages, leitmotifs, themes, and companion pieces.
- Several of the game's music tracks were named by Luke, the game's story writer.
- Digital downloads of the soundtrack from bandcamp include several unlisted tracks.
- The pinned comment of each track on YouTube has a fun fact about the creation of the music!
Album Changelog
- v1.0.0 - [Jun 11, 2017] Album Released
- ... [Undocumented Changes]
- v1.4.4 - Added 'The Seraphs' track
- v1.6.4 - Added 'Winter' and 'Daylight' tracks
- v1.8.4 - [Jun 28, 2018] Added 'Quirky Tavern' and 'Cultured Tavern' tracks
- v1.8.5 - [Jun 28, 2018] Remastered 'The Seraphs' track to be louder
- v1.8.7 - [Oct 11, 2018] Slightly altered 'Quirky Tavern' and 'Cultured Tavern' to have less abrupt transitions
- v1.8.8 - [Nov 12, 2018] Added a png of the album art, a ReadMe text file, and a bonus track (with full album download)
- v1.9.9 - [Jan 1, 2019] Added 'Hallowcroft'
- v1.10.9 - [Dec 20, 2020] Added 'Fall-o'-croft'
- v1.14.11 - [Jun 3, 2020] Added 'Summer Day', 'Roots', 'Resonance Archive - The Invention', and 'Spring,' also lowered volume of 'Quirky Tavern' and 'Cultured Tavern'
- v1.17.11 - [Jun 20, 2022] Added all 3 trailer music tracks as bonus tracks with the full album download
- v1.20.13 - [Apr 19, 2023] Added 'Radiance and Rust', 'Eidolon Battle', and 'The Resonance Archives (Library)'. Renamed other 'Resonance Archive' references to 'Tuning Cylinder'
- v1.27.14 - [Jun 14, 2025] Added 'Fall', 'Windy Village', 'Chilly Village', 'Summer Stroll (High Activity Version), 'Tenacious', 'The Lazaret (Excerpt)', and 'Devastation'
- v1.31.17 - [Sep 1, 2025] Added 'Nadiya' seasonal tracks, renamed Tuning Cylinder tracks to put '(Tuning Cylinder)' at the end, renamed 'Devastation' track to clarify that there is a fade-in
