Elder Scrolls series, all of it. Anything with Jeremy Soule is amazing. Same goes with Michael McCann - ie Deus Ex etc. 👌

Portal 2, Stellaris. EDIT: Subnautica.

Subnautica is the best hands-down

Abandon Ship is amazing.

Katamari Damacy & We ♥ Katamari Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Chrono Cross Earthbound Bastion Tetrisphere Bomberman Hero Mercenaries but just the title theme Prince of Persia: Sands of Time & Warrior Within NieR & NieR: Automata Bionic Commando: Rearmed If licensed soundtracks count, I'll add Jet Set Radio Future.

Oooo, forgot how good Bionic Commando was, the original NES.

Then it's about time you played the way better remake. Which, when I went to verify was still available for purchase since it seems like the kind of thing that might be silently delisted, I discovered is [currently on sale for a little over three dollars.](https://store.steampowered.com/app/21680/Bionic_Commando_Rearmed/)

Ds3 plin plin plon and vordt of the boreal valley

Lowkey, Farcry 5. The cult music and music by Hammock is so good. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Itb52tFZo&list=PLYyRDur5bZu14IQM9GNYSMOkcjRghBu6T&index=1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0Itb52tFZo&list=PLYyRDur5bZu14IQM9GNYSMOkcjRghBu6T&index=1)

Outer Wilds is my favourite soundtrack ever.

How did I forget about this?! Of all the game soundtracks I've listened to, this was the best!

Timber Hearth Final Journey ...be still my beating heart!

If you played the dlc, the river is hype

Phew, I thought we were about to go a day without this thread

didn’t know, just made an account today and trying to get more songs for my spotify, no harm done☺️

The Witcher 3

Pan param?

Stardew valley and all the Life is Stranges

DOOM 2016/Eternal

bonkers that no one has mentioned ODST and halo more generally

Halo’s soundtracks are always a must!

People forgot Halo

Crazy to me no one mentioned it until you did. Halo’s soundtrack is literally GOAT

Demographics. Gamers trend younger, Halo came out when I was in the 9th grade and I'm 38, so imagine what 25 year olds are into. Halo was my immediate first thought as well. I have taught myself to play *some* of Under Cover of Night on bass. https://youtu.be/BHUa2mOO_KY?si=btdKJ4uIYcyyZg9X

you are right...

25 year olds definitely played halo. Halo 3/reach was huge when we were in middle school.

Final Fantasy 14. Every expansion has absolute bangers of many different genres. My current go-to for showing people the range without spoilers are "Tomorrow and Tomorrow", "The Nautilus Knoweth", and "A Long Fall". And of course the fan favorite "To The Edge", written by the main composer of the game during his cancer treatment. FF14 is like, half of my music I listen to.

Risk of Rain

Hype lvls over 9000. Would make any mundane event feel epic, almost overwhelming.

Castlevania IV Super Nintendo System Electronic Soundtrack was brilliant.

Skyrim

FEZ Journey Hollow Knight RiME Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn Command & Conquer: Red Alert Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 And Chrono Orchestral Arrangement Box. Best renditions of the music from Chrono Trigger I have ever heard. There's a vinyl recording of it on YT, which includes the Chrono Cross music as well. Then the old DOS games had epic tunes, but they were in MIDI format. Rise of the Triad, Doom 1 & 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Settlers 2... Xeotroid Doom remixes are pretty top notch. Oh!! And there is an SC-55 music packs page for most of the above. The original MIDI tunes recorded in mp3 format using real Sound Canvas audio hardware.

Nier automata, chained echoes

Doom and all fromsoft games.

Some oldies: Lemmings Ultima 6-8 Little Big Adventure 1 & 2 Some other classics I didn’t see: FTL Undertale Celeste Crypt of the Necrodancer Axiom Verge 1&2

Heaven’s Vault Katamari games Chrono Cross and Chrono Trigger Any SuperGiant game Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz Octopath Traveler 1&2 Florence Celeste Dustfall DX Tunic Most Zelda games but especially Link’s Awakening, Ocarina of Time, and Skyward Sword Sonic Mania Streets of Rage 2 (and 4 to a lesser degree) Persona 3, 4, and 5 Sayonara Wild Hearts The World Ends With You Hotline Miami Dicey Dungeons Faster Than Light F-Zero X Super Mario RPG Golden Sun Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 2 Xenoblade Chronicles

Chrono cross. I truly hate to admit it, but it destroyed everything I've heard before nor after. Speak up, my brethren.

Deep Rock Galactic

i love a deep rock galactic lol

Hades should be here imho. Titanfall 2 and the Half-life series.

Tom Clancys ghost recon wildlands

Xenoblade Chronicles - Engage the Enemy, You Will Know our Names, Zanza the Divine, Mechanical Rhythm Honestly, the whole franchise. Xenoblade Chronicles 1, X, 2, 3, DLCs....music is phenomenal. They'll have you grooving, crying, and raging depending on what you land on.

Super Mario Galaxy. Hands down best soundtrack ever in a video game.

Everything Zelda, but I feel like Triforce Heroes especially is crazy underappreciated. “Dunes” is legit one of my favorite songs of all time.

The entire Banner Saga Trilogy. Austin Wintory is a fantastic composer of some of our favorite video games!

Ocarina of Time

Darren Korb does the music for Supergiant Games, the makers of Bastion, Pyre, Transistor, and Hades. All of those soundtracks go way harder than they have any right to

[Chrono Cross’ OST](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3TjteTbTnQ) is downright incredible

Persona 5

Red dead redemption 1 Breath of the wild Stray (the cat game) incredible soundtrack. If you’re looking for retro stuff, Super Contra is really good too.

Xenoblade

Metroid Prime Series Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze Sea of Stars

The entire Yakuza series

I actually have tons of favorites. Here's a few of them: Undertale, Undertale Yellow, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (All the games), Final Fantasy (Specfically 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and Dimensions), and Legend of Spyro.

Generation 4 Pokémon, Castlevania 2 Simon’s Quest, Doom 1993

Og Command and Conquer still does it for me...and every version of Mute City from F Zero

Final Fantasy 14. It's on a track by track basis as to what someone would like but there's a ton of bangers throughout.

Donkey Kong Country slaps Unfortunately there's no OST on Spotify, but some folks try to recreate it as best they can

I love cyberpunk’s soundtrack Also the chanting in Skyrim as you’re traversing the world 👌

Frostpunk Outer Wilds I recently made a massive Spotify playlist that juxtaposes these two soundtracks and lots of complementary music from nearby genres. All atmospheric and has been my absolutely favorite soundtrack for studying over the last few months. It’s 18 hours long, just let it play in the background while you do other stuff. It will feel like a very long journey https://open.spotify.com/playlist/26ylDsyf5C1BpeUU0mH9fU?si=r3-CelY4TseOWP3G12d4Dw&pi=u-xMI6rmD8TPOJ

super cool, i’ll definitely look into that playlist! thank you so much ☺️

Final fantasy 1,2 and 4-14 and tactics (original, reargnements and remixes varies some an entire soundtrack some a song here or there), Chrono trigger, street fighter 2 remixes, street fighter 3, street fighter 4, persona 5, Zelda:OOT, WoW:wotlk & mop,

Darktide

Hotline Miami Payday 2 Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

Persona 3+4+5

Hitman Blood Money

Don't forget Halo 3 / ODST soundtracks. All pretty epic

The metal gear rising sound track is killer, still throw that on in the car every once in a while

Death stranding is amazing

Castlevania. All of it!

JET SET RADIO FUTURE Understand the concept of love.

Doom & Dynasty Warriors.

Sonic Mania

The finals

Outer wilds

Tales from the Borderlands

Any Metal Gear Solid fans here? Those had great soundtracks

Halo is GOATed. Shit is literally fucking amazing. Not only amazing music for a game, but just incredible in general. Marty O’Donnel is legit the GOAT

I don't think any games have consistent enough sound tracks for me to consider any tracks my favourites. However, if there's one section of a game that has music that is entirely my style, it would be most of the music in Xen portion of Black Mesa, as well as the music that plays during the end of the Blast Pit chapter when you're killing the Tentacle creature. Most of the songs that play in the Xen portion of the game (in my opinion) perfectly capture that otherworldly ethereal feel. Now, let me explain why I like the Blast Pit one. When Gordon finally gets back to the pit after arming the weapon used to kill it, music starts playing. It's slow, and somber. As if the game is trying to evoke emotions of uncertainty. Like, despite all that he's been through so far, Gordon wonders momentarily if he can even survive this final ascent back up to the control room with these massive goddamn tentacles trying to kill him every step of the way. Then, the music ramps up into something much more energetic, and almost entirely removes the somber tone from the music...ALMOST entirely. It now sounds like the music is evoking the emotion of resolve. He's made it this far, and he'll be DAMNED if he lets this monster kill him. So he thinks "to hell with sneaking" and bolts, going from platform to ladder again and again, going as fast as he can until he makes it to the control room. He hits the button and the beast is slain! Cue the victory music! But the victory music never comes, does it? After Gordon presses the switch, the music slows down again, devolving back into that somber tone from the first part as he sees the massive flame kill the creature in a spectacular display of power. As it withers and burns away, it dawns on you. The somber part of the music from the start. It was trying to evoke uncertainty, but not for the reason you initially thought. As the music comes to a close and Gordon sees the hole where the creature once emerged from, he enters a short, momentary state of quiet reflection and he can't help but wonder if what he did was right. But of course what he did is right! Right? It was killing the security guards and scientists. But, it was an animal. It didn't possess higher thinking capabilities. The most likely theory is that it was acting out of fear. It was trying to survive....It was scared. Gordon then snaps out of his reflection and realizes that, whatever the case may be, the current situation is bigger than any one of them, human, animal, alien, whatever, and he realizes he did exactly what he needed to do. He then peers down the hole and descends. Press onward, Dr. Freeman, you've a job to do. - Am I a dumbass who almost never understands what the specific vibe music is going for if it has nuance? Absolutely. Am I totally missing the point of the entire point of that music. Most likely. Am I completely overthinking that whole scene in general and the feel the developers were going for? Almost certainly. But I feel that since music is such a subjective thing in terms of how it makes people feel, that it was okay for me to share my specific experiences with that music and scene. Thanks for reading my way-too-long, probably wrong comment.

Baldur's Gate 3 Personal favorites: - Bard dance - I want to live (instrumental + classical) - Down by the river

Persona 4 and 5 +Sonic have amazing OSTs

Metroid Prime

BoTW main theme

Monster Hunter music is insane

Frostpunk forever. Heartbreaking, lonely, beautiful, just like the game.

Can’t wait for FP2. The city shall surely F A L L

Ultrakill. and terraria and its calamity mod OST

The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and Skyrim, Sacrifice, Warcraft 3, World of Warcraft, MDK, Doom I and II, Deus Ex, Quest for Glory 1+2. (A lot of newer stuff I haven't played, because I haven't had a good PC for some years, and now personal and professional life is very busy. Probably also forgot a lot of older ones...)

CoffeeTalk and CoffeeTalk Episode 2: Hibiscus and Butterflies

Silent Hill 2. Literally listening to it right now.

I love the music from frostpunk. The city must survive is probably my fav from the game

For me it is the slower mundane tracks, because I feel like the daily grind to survive adds so much charm.

Mega man 2 & 3, Minecraft, BOTW, FEZ

Uncharted series

If you love the folky/country vibe in a lot of the Life Is Strange soundtrack you’ll enjoy Outer Wilds, Far Cry 5 and The Last of Us. A few of my other favourites are Hyper Light Drifter, Ocarina of Time, Celeste, Stardew Valley, Pokémon Gen 1-3, and Stray.

Donkey Kong Country

Ultrakill altars of apostasy

the original ratchet and clank 2002 soundtrack is criminally unknown. It’s my favorite ost ever.

NieR:Gestalt and Replicant NieR:Automata SINoALICE Crystar VA-11 Hall-A Guilty Gear: Strive Castlevania: Symphony of The Night Skyrim Shadow of The Colossus Disco Elysium Hollow Knight Dark Souls Skullgirls Limbus Company Triangle Strategy

Ooh yeah Va-11 Hall-A, Skullgirls, and Strive are great picks (Nier games too ofc)

Persona, skullgirls, and this is the police are just 3 off the top off my head

No one mentioned the ace combat games? They have one of the best soundtracks out there imo.

Farm Sim 19/ Any German driving game

Donkey Kong Country 2

cuphead is really fun, although might be a different vibe than what you’re looking for

I love Monster Hunter: World and Rise soundtracks. It probably doesn’t have the same impact without knowing context, like most video game music, but I still think you can get an idea from listening. Here is a [medley](https://youtu.be/oGqcKcQ59bY?si=Xboa55Vw4d0lJ0iy). I like the ending of this one. Here is a shorter [track](https://youtu.be/noSpLVhGdsM?si=Xw1Fgb-JV0uUvoS8). This one is an official remix of an existing track that you can play in game. Bonus [song](https://youtu.be/3yVWI5pxt9k?si=FlOEUmIEdeft8rYC) (with lyrics) from MH Stories 2.

4 Ultimate has a great soundtrack too if you haven’t checked it out yet And Capcom has put out a Jazz Album with a handful of classic monster theme renditions

Oh yeah the whole series has good music! I love Gen Ultimate’s credits theme. Valstrax. Val Habar is already nostalgic and I just recently started 4U

4U is maybe my favorite of the bunch but I’m biased since it was my first Brachydios’ 4U theme is SO good

Gris !

Shout out to Tony hawk pro skater 1

Blasphemous 1 & 2

Any list of the best video game soundtracks is incomplete if it does not contain **Shadow of the Colossus** and **Okami**

The House in Fata Morgana. I played that visual novel once three years ago, and I'm still listening to its soundtrack.

Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack. Love almost every song in it and it's so amazing, wish they had Kerry's yachet song in a soundtrack.

All the silent Hill soundtracks are great.

Octopath traveler and Asuras wrath

There's a mobile game called Pinout that has a surprisingly good soundtrack. It's a vertically scrolling pinball game with a 80s neon aesthetic. The soundtrack is icy electro pop that matches the look of the game really well.

Where to even begin… - Street Fighter series (2 is iconic, Alpha 2-3) - Metal Gear Solid series (1 and 3 particularly, Rising too!) - Mega Man X series (X1, X3 and X4) - Legend of Zelda (Ocarina, Wind Waker) - Dark Souls 3. All of it. My fav soundtrack, best intro screen theme ever. - Bloodborne, especially the DLC. - Chrono Trigger in its entirety. Chrono Cross has one of the best intro themes ever. - Donkey Kong Country 2 - Batman Arkham City intro is a banger - Shadow of the Colossus - Doom (the last two) - Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 - Yakuza 0, Kuze boss fight, karaoke selection - Guitar Hero 2 and 3

Subnautica Halo Combat Evolved Hades

Burnout 3: takedown NFS underground and underground 2 THPS any of them Both Dooms Assassin's Creed Black flag for the shandys

Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus, Armored Core: For Answer, Devil May Cry 3 or 5

Twisted Metal 3.

Most of my most nostalgic are from the psx era: Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Cross, Legend of Dragoon OSRS also slaps

Ender Lilies has one of the most amazing soundtracks ever created and is one of only two games where I will listen to the music while playing other games. Link to Game/Soundtrack: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369630/ENDER\_LILIES\_Quietus\_of\_the\_Knights/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369630/ENDER_LILIES_Quietus_of_the_Knights/) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZWPtpNIt4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkZWPtpNIt4)

Shenmue, that OST when it first came out on Dreamcast was a film quality orchestral score when very few games attempted anything similar.

risk of rain 2 hella slept on

The [soundtrack ](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC0C2A6BCA6040BC8&feature=shared) from the original Fallout will always be my personal fav

Minecraft for sure

Guilty Gear X2. Cyberpunk 2077. Final Fantasy 7. Megaman X. No More Heroes. Honorable mention: Tekken 8's soundtrack is good, but it's too early to call it a favorite.

Persona 5 then 4

(example tracks to check out in parentheses) **Phantasy Star Online** ("Empty Space out of Control Pt.2", "IDOLA Have the Immortal Feather") **Sonic Mania** ("Built to Rule", "Hydrocity Act 2", "Tabloid Jargon") **Rhythm Heaven Megamix** ("Flock Step", "Catchy Tune 2", "Jungle Gymnast") **Drakengard** ("Chapter XI - in the Sky", "Chapter VII - in the Sky") **Dragon Quest III (GBC)** ("Zoma's Theme", "Adventure")

In no particular order, Bloodborne, Undertale, Quantum Break, Uncharted 4, and Kingdom Hearts 2.

Persona choose any game

Assassin's creed. Yakuza games unironically.

DOOM 🤘🤘

Panzer dragoon saga.

Tekken 8 has a fantastic soundtrack, all of the stage themes are total earworms and they get stuck in your head way too easily

Forza horizon 4. So many ridiculously good drum and bass tracks on that soundtrack

Halo CE for me, idk why but the sci-fi jungle vibes it has is always enjoyable to me. Always reminds me of the Legends of the Hidden Temple theme song lol.

Megaman X, Zero and Battlenetwork series Chrono Trigger (& Cross) Radiant Historia (anything made by Yoko Shimomura really) Castlevania (specially Dawn of Sorrow) Shinning Force (the first one and specially that circus theme) Final Fantasy X (look for To Zanarkand and Seymour's battle theme)

I still maintain that Chrono Trigger has the best soundtrack ever put in a game. Honorable mentions for most any Final Fantasy.

American McGee's Alice & Alice: Madness Returns

Dave the Diver Old school RuneScape specifically OSRSBeatz renditions

I love the Undertale soundtrack. Minecraft, too.

The start menu song in Naruto Shippuden Ultimate ninja storm 2. Man it takes me back every time…

Actraiser

Command and conquer Chrono trigger Elder scrolls series Fallout New Vegas

The soundtrack for Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets GBC was composed by Jeremy Soule. It’s one of my all time favorites, very quirky and child-like.

NBA Street Vol 2

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Risk of Rain 1 & 2, and Risk of Rain Returns. I fucking love their soundtracks and listen to them regularly while working!

First that came to mind is Outer Wilds

Arcanum

Minecraft and Terraria both deserve a mention.

None, music in games is not real music

lol… well then why are you even here? I guess every party needs a pooper! So what is your taste in non-gamer music then?

Dominance And Submission and that song exclusively

Sonic Frontiers