No Longer OFF The Record: Toby Fox Joins The OFF Soundtrack!

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The cult classic RPG gets an improved version on Nintendo Switch and Steam, with a new OST! + Celebrating 50K Wishlists on Steam in just a month.

23 JANUARY 2025 – Just last month, Belgian developer Mortis Ghost and publisher Fangamer announced the unexpected return of the influential RPG OFF in 2025, resulting in 50.000 Wishlists on Steam in just a month and thousands of pre-orders for the physical Nintendo Switch release.

…and now they have more exciting news to share!

Legendary indiegame creator and composer Toby Fox (UNDERTALE, DELTARUNE) first discovered OFF’s English fan translation on the Starmen.net forums, an EarthBound fan website whose staff eventually created Fangamer.

Toby cited OFF multiple times in his UNDERTALE Art Book as an inspiration for his designs, especially the character designs. ​ Papyrus’s appearance initially inspired by the first boss, Dedan. Next, Sans was inspired by Zacharie and the judge: A reliable, friendly, humorous character who shows up throughout the adventure, and you never quite know what his deal is.

A New Soundtrack

Fangamer reached out to Alias ​​Conrad Coldwood to reuse the original soundtrack in the new version, but ACC felt nervous about signing and proved hard to reach. He did state that he doesn’t mind his music will not be reused and that he has no issues with a new soundtrack.

Mortis Ghost, the developer, asked Toby Fox if he was interested in helping on OFF’s soundtrack. Both recognise that the soundtrack contributed a lot to the game’s atmosphere and core memories of the fans, so it wasn’t an easy challenge to deliver the same experience.

Toby ended up handling a lot of boss tracks and was also assigned… the normal battle theme. Pepper Steak, the most famous song from the original OST, is well-loved by fans with millions of listens across various platforms.

”I’m gonna be honest, just feels like I got assigned to take a bullet in the back for everybody else. I looked up almost every jazz song from the 1920s, I commissioned Carlos to make an entire fake jazz song for me so I could cut it up into samples, I tried making like 6 entirely different songs, but nothing I could come up with on my own felt quite right.

​In the end, I summoned 
Camellia to help me out by re-remixing my
​first track into multiple versions, and ultimately I think it will
​feel pretty cool as you go through the game.”
– Toby Fox

White Meat, the new battle theme for OFF by Toby Fox & Camellia:

Toby did the music for free, and he’ll upload his tracks for free after the game comes out.
​The full interview with Toby Fox is available [HERE]!

”The song you heard in the trailer might appear in the game. I’m actually quite proud of that one, I think it’s the best track I made. Apparently no one realized it was me, so I feel pretty good !”
​- Toby Fox

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