Wow, absolutely loved this submission. The sound effect and the subtle strings made it very cinematic ! You managed to make a magestic soundscape with only a few 

Although there's one big issue for me : you had a lot of beach sound design elements, crashing waves, seagulls, but that wasn't what the theme was about at all, and I think it's a shame because the track sounded amazing. I understand your thought process, but to me that just doesn't connect when you think of "the frozen waste".

Nonentheless, definitly a track I can chill too, 5/5 listenability, 5/5 sense of atmosphere. Good job !

Really solid composition you've got here squirrel! it really hits the brief so well, especially love how the low level chatter kind of makes it seem like its a ship moving through the water before a crash or something like in the painting. I do agree with the lesson learned, it can be pretty easy to make ambient music but good stuff can be hard - you've made the good stuff!

really clean, immersive and good sounding piece. Not much more to say, really, i just saved it so i can have it in the background later, really impressive work! (except that wind crashing sound that you're talking about, which is kind of too loud)

You tell us again that you don’t know how ambiance work! This is stunning.

The background noises like the wind, birds and waves are beautifully paired with the droning strings and droning voices and here and then some dulcimer glistening thru. I can’t even believe that this is made with mostly free samples. You definitely did some GREAT work. The ambiance you’ve created just begs the listener to stay a wile longer and just soak it in.

While you said you wanted to implement some more FX, I don’t think this is necessary. It is a beauty as it is.

Great feel of atmosphere and very well paced, for someone's 1st experience with ambiance I'd expect a much busier composition, furtunately you nailed it!

You used the wind samples very well, I've heard some others that weren't able to pull that off, and I do love a well used sample, but in this case, I see the amb track for a game, the wind FX will be there, what you need is something for the background to maintain atmosphere when its not, but not be the game atmosphere itself (hope I'm getting the point across well)

Great submission! Take care :3

The atmosphere is there for sure. I also love that it's not as dark as most submissions (including mine) are, but gives a sense of the greatness of nature!

Really nice. Enough subtle variation and melodic detail to avoid repetitivenes, but without drawing too much interest either so it can remain in the background of immersive gameplay. Would be interested to hear the mix without the SFX, since I would imagine in the actual game these would be mixed differently and the presence of your instruments in the reverb would be different.

This is fantastic! It's mixed excellently - it's both clean and lush - something not a lot of people pull off. Most people go too dry trying to sound clean, but really they don't have control of the reverb.

I also love the little shifts in pitch here and there, that really does solid.

That little progression around 2:15 is also peak, very subtle, but also gives it that emotional depth while the track is still in the background and not getting in the way.

I know Fox said it could use a little more change - but given the nature of the track, I think that for what you presented, you actually executed it well. If it were to go on much longer, that's when you'd want to shift key or something like that, but I didn't actually find myself wanting for anything like that.

This is really solid work. Well done!

Amazing work! Subtle and very much a frozen setting. LABS truly comes in clutch with a lot of those frozen instruments/kits. I think actually you could've used like a low drone (like Harmonic Bass in Astral Forms, for example) to fill just a tiny bit of space, but besides that, the sounds are great! 

All right, that is truly ambient piece, from someone that kept saying he doesn't know how to make ambient, well now you know. Although it is indeed a huge atmosphere, I was expecting some subtle change, some new instruments coming up, some low end maybe (I always love some bass), doesn't have to be punchy it can be introduced lightly but just something ot make us move a little bit would've been very nice. Well done ;)

Great track, I think all the instruments are blended into the background perfectly, so you let the wind and the atmosphere really shine through like it should. I get heavy Skyrim feels from this one. Sometimes in the track, like at 4:22, there's that sound of a big swelling wave - and I realize the song is called Arctic Swells - which kinda catches me of guard, because I'm not sure if the water is supposed to be frozen or not. Or is it that there are like... floating pieces of ice, but most of it is still water? Anyway that doesn't matter. Nice job!