Some games that happen to be all about music

A musical city, a record store, and a 90s soundtrack album! Okay, and a Lovecraftian adventure game. Phonopolis Wax Heads Mixtape Call of the Elder Gods Now that I think about it, the Lovecraftian adventure has a puzzle where you control alien technology through musical resonance. See. It all fits. Phonopolis by Amanita Design -- game site An adorable animated puzzle-adventure game about a city ruled by sound. I almost said "tiny adventure game", because of course Amanita games are tiny. It's part of their charm, right? But in fact Phonopolis is pretty substantial. I mean, it's not gigantic, but it's comparable to Keeper or Mind Diver (to name two games which I played recently and didn't call "small"). I'd say Phonopolis leans more towards the "puzzlebox" side of the genre than to puzzle games per se. The aesthetic is machinery that you don't know how it works. You play with the controls until you've done the right thing. Very often that's "make the machine explode messily and…