Thanks for your diligent work!
I don’t know if you already know this, but your phrasing made me think you don’t:
Supergiant Games are known for Bastion… and more recently, for Hades :P So it makes sense that the style reminds you of that, because Transistor precedes Hades.
We really owe a big chunk of our culture to the Arabs, even to this day. Especially in southern Spain.