10 Most Popular Game Audio Stories In 2022

Posted January 4, 2023 by Asbjoern Andersen in Game audio

We published a large number of exclusive game audio interviews and stories in 2022, and in this highlight we've glad to bring you the most popular ones - hope you enjoy this game audio deep-dive!

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Here’s a highlight of 2022’s most popular game audio stories (newest first):

Designing and Implementing Game Audio for ‘Dying Light 2 Stay Human’
— with Techland’s Sound Team

Techland audio team members Wojciech Siadak, Tomasz Gruszka, Filip Hajzer, Edyta Mosińska-Duralska, and Michał Bendnarek talk about recording, designing, and implementing sounds for the first-person survival/horror game “Dying Light 2 Stay Human’:

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Designing Next-Gen Sound for ‘A Plague Tale: Requiem’
– with Audio Director Aurélien Piters

Asobo Audio Director Aurélien Piters discusses the sonic evolution in ‘A Plauge Tale: Requiem,’ designing spatialized audio for next-gen systems, creating waves of rats, developing a time-saving approach to Foley implementation, designing the sound of Hugo’s abilities, simplifying the mix to maximize emotional impact, and more!

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Video: Behind The Callisto Protocol’s Terrifying, Immersive Sound

This is the only entry on the list that isn’t an exclusive A Sound Effect story – but we’re including it anyway as it’s a really interesting one. Here, Striking Distance Audio Director Nassim Ait-Kaci and Dead Space creator Glen Schofield take you behind the sound for The Callisto Protocol:

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Making the Merry Sound of ‘Return to Monkey Island’
– huge game audio interview with Elise Kates & Andy Martin

Audio Lead Elise Kates and Ambient Sound Designer Andy Martin talk about their fresh approach to the sound of ‘Return to Monkey Island’ — creating fun, gross, and magical sound design to support the colorful visuals, and realistic, natural ambiences to build up immersive backgrounds & much more:

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Behind the Purr-fect Sound of ‘Stray’
– with Sound Designers Yann van der Cruyssen and Raphaël Monnin

Get the exclusive A Sound Effect story behind the game audio for indie sensation ‘Stray’, told by sound designer/composer Yann van der Cruyssen and sound designer Raphaël Monnin:

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Classic Old-School Retro Game Arcade Machine Play Track 280 sounds included $99.99
Are you looking for the most complete and one-of-a-kind RETRO GAME sound library, produced by experts in the genre, with maximum variety and flexibility? Then look no further and read on…

Create a retro masterpiece and a true immersion in classic 8-bit arcade gaming with this expertly handcrafted collection of 80s console sound effects, short tunes, and good old-school, bit-crushed sound samples. With nearly 850 drag-and-drop ready audio assets and around 30 minutes of pure 8-Bit epicness, cutting edge sonic quality of MODERNLY PRODUCED RETRO, this sound packet brings everything you’ll need to turn your old school 80’s vintage production or idea to life!

Send your players back in time with a huge variety of BEEPs and BLEEPs, object/item PICKUPs, POWERUPs, COIN COLLECT sounds, USER INTERFACE and other UI INTERACTION sound effects, human/creature/robot MOVEMENT sounds (FOOTSTEPs, PUNCH and HITs, JUMPs, FALLs, DROP and DAMAGE sounds), DIGITALIZED VOICES, VEHICLES, WEAPONS, BOMB EXPLOSIONs, LASER and MACHINE GUNs, and all other classic 8-bit arcade gaming, old school console sounds and tunes, and bit-crushed sound samples you’ll ever need.

With a dizzying selection of variant options, including LOOPS, DIFFERENT INTENSITY LEVELS, MULTIPLE LENGTHS, SIMPLIFIED and COMPLEX VERSIONS, FULL SEQUENCES, and many more, a whole world of possibilities is at your fingertips.

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❤ MUSIC USER INTERFACE SOUNDS
Say goodbye to boring, dull, monotonous UI sounds and discover pitch-based and musical button clicks, swipes, notifications, and short retro game tunes for a unique interface experience. Drop them in your game and reward your users with the nicest interface audio out there… retro game style, of course :)

❤ CINEMATIC TRAILER SOUND EFFECTS
Would you like to add some AAA feel to your game or trailer? We have designed a whole world of trailer sounds with a retro 8-bit feel for you, but preserved the quality of modern Hollywood trailers in them! Add them to your marketing videos or even within your game, and grab attention the way only AAA developers were able to do until now, FOR FREE!

PERFECT FOR:
- Video Games
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- Film / Animation
- Ads / Trailers
- YouTube videos
- Live Events
- Sound Design
…and all other audio-visual productions

KEY FEATURES:
- Huge variety of the finest modernly produced retro sounds and short tunes, suitable for any scene or situation in your game
- Carefully hand-crafted to suit multiple sub-genres (Platform, Puzzle, Arcade, Horror, Adventure, FPS, RPG, Slot Games, etc.)
- 840 Audio Files (280 original sound effects and music tunes)
- Included Formats: HD and SD WAV (96 kHz + 44.1 kHz / 24 Bit + 16 Bit) and HQ MP3 (320 Kbps)
- Ready to use – requires no editing, labeling or splicing. Categorized, organized and individually labeled files for maximum use efficiency
- Unpacked Size: 352MB
- Total Run Time: 27m 19s
- FREE Updates to higher versions, FOREVER!
GET RETRO GAME NOW and instantly join the sonic world of Tetris, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Punch-Out, Super Mario Bros., Asteroids, Frogger, Double Dragon, 1942, Boulder Dash, Shinobi and other classics!
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Funny / Comedy / Cartoon 8-Bit Retro Game Play Track 672 sounds included $35

8-Bit Retro is a professionally designed 8-bit sound library featuring retro-sounding beeps, bleeps, loops, and jingles, that all sound like they came straight out of those legendary arcade video games and the time when Nintendo, C64 and Atari ruled The Earth!

Perfect for games, cartoons, movies, and other projects involving retro game themes, you can use these 8-bit sound effects as they are, or explore vast new sound possibilities by playing around with them, combining, looping, and layering them. If you need a fresh and versatile collection of retro-sounding 8-bit sound effects for your production that will instantly throw your audience back to the 80’s era and the time of classic arcade games and consoles, 8-Bit Retro sound library is a must-have!

8-Bit Retro sound library contains 672 sound effects (116MB) in 16 Bit / 44.1 kHz Stereo WAV format, embedded with metadata to speed up your workflow, and separated into three categories: 1.Loops 2.Jingles 3.Various

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Retro Game Play Track 502 sounds included, 31 mins total $39.20

Go (game audio) retro with all the classic 8-bit Arcade Game sound effects! Retro Game is here to offer you the ultimate sonic stockpile to turn your old school 80’s vintage production or idea to life! Over 500 game ready audio assets, over 30 minutes of pure 8-Bit epic-ness!

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Game Audio Packs - Game Sound Effects Libraries Retro Games Play Track 656+ sounds included $15

Looking to add some retro game flavor to your project? The Retro Game library delivers a host of old-school, 8-bit sounding sound effects, including beeps, bleeps, explosions, footsteps, UI sounds, hit and damage sounds, jumps, status and weapon sounds. And they all sound like they came straight out of an old arcade game.

A total of 656 sounds are included, ready to add that retro feel to your next project.

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Hand Combat Sound Effects Massive Punches Play Track 505 sounds included, 1 mins total $29.99

MASSIVE PUNCHES – 505 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Massive Punches comes in at over 1 minute, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Massive Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

Don’t need a Massive amount of Punch sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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Hand Combat Sound Effects Mini Punches Play Track 60 sounds included $6.99

MINI PUNCHES – 60 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Mini Punches comes in at over 15 seconds, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Mini Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Looking for a Massive amount of Punch sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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Environments & Ambiences Textured Rain Play Track 116 sounds included, 135 mins total $41.30

Textured Rain features meticulously recorded rainfall on a wide variety of surfaces and objects. Each sound is delivered as a seamless loop, with three distinct intensities per surface for maximum flexibility.

Captured in a controlled environment using mainly a DIY rain machine, this collection was recorded in both stereo and mono, ranging from light drizzles to heavy downpours and offering consistent, adaptable textures without unwanted background noise.

The library includes performances on car interiors, metal and plastic props, umbrellas, vegetation, fabric, debris and more. Perfect for layering in film, games, or other audio projects, these rain loops are ideal for crafting atmospheres, enhancing ambiences, and adding realistic environmental detail.

‍Loops in mono and stereo

This sound pack have been recorded using multiple mono and stereo microphone configurations and exported as seamless loops for easy drag and drop in your project.

‍Props and textures recorded

Aluminium plate • Car interior • Fabric • Galvanized container • Galvanized tub • Glass plate • Green and dead leaves • Metal barrel • Metal roof • Metal sheets and plates • Metal scrap • Mud puddle • Newspapers • Plastic container • Plastic roof • Plastic sheet • Plastic tarps • Reed screen • Roof tiles • Shopping bags • Stainless steel sheet • Steel box • Tent • Trash bags • Trash can • Umbrellas • Water • Wheelie bin • Window skylight • Wood floor • Wood planks

… and more!

‍Gear used

MixPre-6 II • F6 • MKH8040 • MKH30 • C411 • MKH416 • LOM Usi Pro • Oktava MK012

‍Metadata

This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Extra Crunches Play Track 74 sounds included, 27 mins total $9.99

EXTRA CRUNCHES – is an auxiliary sound library containing 74 unique sound effect files of crunches. From close up scratching and popping to loud and rough breaking and chomping. Whether it’s crunches or crumbs you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the snacks and cracker needs, of your next project. Extra Crunches comes in at over 27 minutes and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

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Industrial Ambiences Airflow Collection Play Track 36+ sounds included, 157 mins total $48

Moody wind drafts for game & cinematic sound design can always give depth and realism to your production. This collection of airflow sounds covers structural air pressure, howling and whistling wind through doors, rattling frames and cracking stuff. Perfect for creating bunker-like atmospheres, tense survival settings, or immersive environmental layers, these sounds bring authenticity and emotion to your projects. Whether you need subtle drafts creeping through an abandoned shelter or violent gusts shaking a refuge, this library delivers a versatile toolkit ready for games, trailers, and film sound design.
Only acoustic recordings are used, no designed sounds. UCS compatible file names and embedded file descriptions for your comfort.

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Crafting ‘The Quarry’s Cinematic-Style Horror Game Audio
– with Adele Cutting

Audio Director Adele Cutting on The Quarry’s all-important dialogue, iconic horror sounds, responsive ambiences, interactive music, vicious werewolf sounds + so much more:

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The Essential Game Audio Toolkit – Greg Lester’s Overview of Must-Have Tools

Looking for great tools and resources to get you up and running in game audio – without breaking the bank? After extensive research, Greg Lester brings you his road-tested overview of must-have tools for game audio:

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Hiring in Game Audio: Sound Design Roles and What To Expect:

Junior, Intermediate, and Senior Sound Designers – what sorts of skills and qualifications can reasonably be expected and required for each of those roles? It often depends on whether you’re looking to be hired – or you’re the one doing the hiring. Here, seasoned senior sound designer Glenn Gullskjegg Goa shares their opinions, expectations, recommendations, and lessons learned from both sides of game audio industry:

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Creating an Aural Adventure for ‘Angry Birds Journey’

From games to feature films to animated series, the Angry Birds IP has become a successful cross-media franchise that’s still going strong. Here, the Rovio Entertainment sound team talks about creating sound for their latest release Angry Birds Journey:

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What It Takes To Get Started And Succeed As A Game Composer – Insights From Winifred Phillips:

Want to make it as a game composer? In this interview, you’ll hear what it takes to get started and succeed in composing for the game industry, from multi-award-winning composer Winifred Phillips, known for her scores on six of the biggest franchises in gaming: SIE’s LittleBigPlanet, God of War (2013), NCSOFT’s Lineage, EA’s The Sims, Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed, CA’s Total War – & her BAFTA nom’d score on Sackboy: A Big Adventure

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THE WORLD’S EASIEST WAY TO GET INDEPENDENT SOUND EFFECTS:

A Sound Effect gives you easy access to an absolutely huge sound effects catalog from a myriad of independent sound creators, all covered by one license agreement - a few highlights:

User Interface (UI) Sound Effects Kawaii UI 2 Play Track 625 sounds included $50

Level up with Kawaii UI 2 the perfect companion to Kawaii UI.
Kawaii UI 2 follows up with more charming, modern, rounded user interface sounds designed to make your projects pop.
This library provides an adorable blend of cute, satisfying interface sounds, crafted to enhance user experience and feedback.
Bring your games and apps to life with Kawaii UI 2. It’s ideal for creating joyful menus, delightful HUDs, playful navigation and notifications, engaging pop-ups, and expressive text.

What’s Inside?
The designed folder of Kawaii UI 2 gives you a selection of ready to use UI sounds. You’ll find sounds for button presses, cursors, notifications, swipes, errors, bootups, app opens, loading loops, etc.
Inside the source folder you’ll also find a large collection of general synthesised UI sounds, FM bells and telemetry style sounds. Combining these elements gives sound designers a robust sonic palette to create new UI sounds.

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Footsteps Sound Effects Ultimate Footsteps Play Track 1176-3056+ sounds included
Rated 5.00 out of 5
From: $160

Need footstep sound effects? Get 5 Shoes, 25+ surfaces, 15+ variations – created by Foley Supervisor Joshua Reinhardt and professional Foley walker Lara Dale.

Deep heavy metal, crunchy snow, old boat wood, crisp grass, gritty dirt, clean tile – this library has it all. Not only does this library contain walking but it's got pretty much every performance you can think of, from scuffs to jumps and lands and scrapes. With this library you can cut Foley for pretty much any film or game that comes your way.

Highlights:

• 17 different Performances – From slow walk to RUN, 5 scrapes, bodyfall/land, stomps and more
• Every file is labeled with a description of the shoe, surface and performance type.
• Every folder has a picture of the shoe and surface plus a description of the distance of the mic from the Foley walker.
• Combine wood creak sweeteners with Ultimate Interiors wood for scary creaky wood or add grit to a clean interior to give character.
• Same recording studio mics and preamps used in over 50 major motion pictures
• Same boots that were used for Sylvester Stallone in The Expendable
• Mix and match shoes, surfaces and sweeteners to make your own custom characters
• Can be used as a stereo or separated and mixed/matched as a mono depending which mic works best for your project

Specs:

Foot wear type:
Boots, Dress Shoes, Flats, Heels, Sneakers.

Performances:
Extremely Slow Walk, Medium Slow Walk, Walk, Jog, Run, Stairs Slow, Stairs Fast, Stomp, Land, Scuff, Scrape 1, Scrape 2, Scrape 3, Scrape 4, Scrape 5.

Surface Types:
Asphalt, Carpet 1, Carpet 2, Concrete, Hardwood, Hardwood house, Hardwood deep, Hardwood parquet, Hardwood boat wood, Hardwood Dock, Lino, Marble, Tile, Dirt, Grass, Metal grate, Diamond plate Metal, Metal Slab, Wood Creak 1 old, Wood Creak 2, Gravel, Rocks, SNOW!!, Puddle, Water shallow, Water Deep.

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City Life Sound Effects Sounds & Ambiences of London Play Track 101+ sounds included, 264 mins total From: $60

Get the sounds and ambiences of London: Here are 101 authentic recordings from the English capital.

Featuring crowd sounds, traffic, general ambience, underground / tube, church bells, emergency and much more, this library is the perfect backdrop to any film / theatre project in need of that lively, living city sound. Detailed file names plus Soundminer, ID3 v2.3.0 and RIFF INFO metadata embedded.

In total, this library gets you more than 4 hours of atmospheric London sounds!

Sounds captured at famous (and some not-so-famous) London locations and landmarks such as:
Alexandra Palace • Borough Market • Bricklayers Arms • British National Gallery • Buckingham Palace • Cardington Street • Carnaby Street • Chelsea Wharf • China Town • Courtyard Gallery • Covent Garden • Euston Station • Festival Pier • Gough Square Warwick Court • Greenwich Foot Tunnel • Hyde Park • Islington Green • Joseph Grimaldi Park • King’s Cross underground station • London Eye • London Underground • Old Compton Street • Palladium Theatre • Piccadilly Circus • Pubs around London • River Thames • Royal Horticultural Halls • Seven Dials • Shaftesbury Avenue • Soho • Somerset House • Southbank • Southbank Skatepark • Southbank Tower • Southwark Street • St Paul’s Church gardens • The Strand • Theatre Royal • Trafalgar Square • Warwick Court • West End • Whitechapel

A special bundle opportunity:
Get this library on its own – or get the special bundle featuring both Sounds & Ambiences Of London Vol 1 and Vol 2 at an excellent price, for more than 590 minutes of signature London sounds

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Explore the full, unique collection here

Latest sound effects libraries:

Hand Combat Sound Effects Massive Punches Play Track 505 sounds included, 1 mins total $29.99

MASSIVE PUNCHES – 505 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Massive Punches comes in at over 1 minute, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Massive Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.

Don’t need a Massive amount of Punch sound effects? We offer ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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Hand Combat Sound Effects Mini Punches Play Track 60 sounds included $6.99

MINI PUNCHES – 60 files of punch sound effects, from several sparring sessions. From quiet taps and hits to thudding and cracking impacts. Mini Punches comes in at over 15 seconds, of real skin on skin body and head shots. Bring the power of bare knuckle to your next project. Recorded at 192kHz and 32bit, using microphones capable of recording ultrasonic frequencies. Mini Punches filenames are in the Universal Category System format with additional Metadata baked-in.
Looking for a Massive amount of Punch sound effects? We offer ‘Massive’ sound effect libraries as companions for all of our ‘Mini’ sound effect libraries. All recordings are unique to each library with no overlap. Go Mini today, and upgrade to the corresponding Massive library later, when you need more of that particular sound effect.

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Environments & Ambiences Textured Rain Play Track 116 sounds included, 135 mins total $41.30

Textured Rain features meticulously recorded rainfall on a wide variety of surfaces and objects. Each sound is delivered as a seamless loop, with three distinct intensities per surface for maximum flexibility.

Captured in a controlled environment using mainly a DIY rain machine, this collection was recorded in both stereo and mono, ranging from light drizzles to heavy downpours and offering consistent, adaptable textures without unwanted background noise.

The library includes performances on car interiors, metal and plastic props, umbrellas, vegetation, fabric, debris and more. Perfect for layering in film, games, or other audio projects, these rain loops are ideal for crafting atmospheres, enhancing ambiences, and adding realistic environmental detail.

‍Loops in mono and stereo

This sound pack have been recorded using multiple mono and stereo microphone configurations and exported as seamless loops for easy drag and drop in your project.

‍Props and textures recorded

Aluminium plate • Car interior • Fabric • Galvanized container • Galvanized tub • Glass plate • Green and dead leaves • Metal barrel • Metal roof • Metal sheets and plates • Metal scrap • Mud puddle • Newspapers • Plastic container • Plastic roof • Plastic sheet • Plastic tarps • Reed screen • Roof tiles • Shopping bags • Stainless steel sheet • Steel box • Tent • Trash bags • Trash can • Umbrellas • Water • Wheelie bin • Window skylight • Wood floor • Wood planks

… and more!

‍Gear used

MixPre-6 II • F6 • MKH8040 • MKH30 • C411 • MKH416 • LOM Usi Pro • Oktava MK012

‍Metadata

This sound library is UCS compliant and comes with fully embedded metadata compatible with Soundly, Soundminer and Basehead.

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Destruction & Impact Sounds Extra Crunches Play Track 74 sounds included, 27 mins total $9.99

EXTRA CRUNCHES – is an auxiliary sound library containing 74 unique sound effect files of crunches. From close up scratching and popping to loud and rough breaking and chomping. Whether it’s crunches or crumbs you’re looking for; This Extra sound effects library will help supplement the snacks and cracker needs, of your next project. Extra Crunches comes in at over 27 minutes and was recorded at 192kHz / 32bit using an ultrasonic microphone. All of our libraries comply with the Universal Category System naming convention standard, allowing for accurate and easy granular searches.

50 %

OFF

Add to cart
Industrial Ambiences Airflow Collection Play Track 36+ sounds included, 157 mins total $48

Moody wind drafts for game & cinematic sound design can always give depth and realism to your production. This collection of airflow sounds covers structural air pressure, howling and whistling wind through doors, rattling frames and cracking stuff. Perfect for creating bunker-like atmospheres, tense survival settings, or immersive environmental layers, these sounds bring authenticity and emotion to your projects. Whether you need subtle drafts creeping through an abandoned shelter or violent gusts shaking a refuge, this library delivers a versatile toolkit ready for games, trailers, and film sound design.
Only acoustic recordings are used, no designed sounds. UCS compatible file names and embedded file descriptions for your comfort.

Add to cart

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