Though less than ideal, a solution for the time being is to save the game, and reload from there. This should restart the audio buffer in a clean state, so long as the background music changes while doing this.


You may experience the background music halting and stuttering in parts, which sounds similar to a broken music loop. In other cases the audio may come to overlap instead, causing the track to bleed together with itself. Creating all kinds of potential audio artifacts. Sometimes the music completely stops after long periods of playback.

A wide variety of problems are all related to the same timing bug.

An attempt was made to fix this, but due to some deeper technical issues, the new solution was found to be unstable and had to be dropped.

This issue will be revisited during or after the development of the final episode.

Thanks for everyone making the reports and with helping to identify the problem.

The issue can and often does compound over time. The longer a track is playing, the more chances a stall of some kind can introduce these glitchy offsets in playback.

You're most likely to encounter this problem when leaving the game running idle for long periods.