Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams
Black Forest Games · PC/Steam · PS3/Xbox 360
The long-awaited official sequel to The Great Giana Sisters. Hülsbeck delivered a full orchestral score - his most ambitious since the Symphonic Shades concert. The game features a dynamic music system where the soundtrack shifts between two distinct emotional palettes as the player switches between dream worlds.
Strong commercial performance on Steam introduced Hülsbeck's compositions to players with no prior knowledge of his C64 and Amiga catalogue. The soundtrack received particular critical attention for its quality relative to the game's budget.
Giana Sisters: Dream Runners
Black Forest Games · PC/Steam
Multiplayer spin-off of Twisted Dreams. Additional music compositions extending the orchestral palette established in the 2012 original. The game allowed up to four players to race through Giana's dream worlds with competitive mechanics.
Turrican Flashback
ININ Games · PS4 / Nintendo Switch / PC
A collection of 20 official Turrican games - the most comprehensive official Turrican release ever produced. Hülsbeck was directly involved in curating the music compilation, ensuring the audio accurately represented the original compositions across different hardware platforms.
The collection included Turrican, Turrican II: The Final Fight, Mega Turrican, Super Turrican, and Super Turrican 2, along with numerous variants and regional versions. Extensive liner notes covered the musical history of the series.
Turrican Anthology Vol. 1 & 2
Ship to Shore PhonoCo. · Vinyl / Digital
Two-volume commercial release of the complete Turrican soundtrack, crowd-funded through Kickstarter. Newly recorded, professionally mastered, and released on vinyl and digital formats. The campaign attracted significant backing, demonstrating the enduring commercial value of the Turrican catalogue and Hülsbeck's sustained relationship with his audience.
TMNT: Splintered Fate
Super Evil Megacorp · Apple Arcade
Complete original soundtrack for this Apple Arcade Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike action game. The brief required music that could sustain repeated runs through procedurally varied content - a different compositional challenge from the narrative scores Hülsbeck is best known for.
The game reached a broad casual audience on Apple Arcade, further extending Hülsbeck's reach beyond the retro gaming community.
Tiny Thor
Fabian Rastorfer · PC/Steam
A retro-informed platformer with an original score by Hülsbeck that consciously honours the classic game music aesthetics of the C64 and Amiga era while employing modern orchestration and production techniques. The game is a deliberate love letter to 16-bit-era platformers.
The score received strong praise from the retro gaming community for its authenticity and compositional quality.
Boulder Dash: 40th Anniversary
BBG Entertainment · PC / Nintendo Switch
Complete original score for the 40th anniversary revival of First Star Software's 1984 classic. Hülsbeck composed a full original soundtrack for this modern reimagining, bringing the same care to a beloved retro franchise that he applied to his own C64-era compositions.
X-Out: Resurfaced
ZXC Games · PC / Consoles
Remaster of the 1990 Rainbow Arts horizontal shooter X-Out, featuring new orchestral arrangements by Hülsbeck of his original C64 and Amiga compositions. Revisiting his own early work three and a half decades later, the arrangements expand the harmonic and textural vocabulary of the original scores while preserving their melodic identity.