I have lots of favourites but I feel like most will be suggested by others so I’ll go for one that isn’t as popular: Monaco: What’s Yours Is Mine. The whole soundtrack is amazing start to finish. Some of the best piano tunes to ever be in a video game, and a super under-appreciated game. It should’ve been way bigger than it was. Unfortunately it’s being tainted by its less-than-stellar sequel which came out recently. Don’t play the sequel, but definitely play the original. It’s fun solo but it really shines co-op with a friend (or three). It supports up to four players and I’d definitely recommend co-op if you have the means. I used to play it on 360 with a friend of mine and it’s some of my most fond gaming memories. It’s not a difficult game to figure out but it’s not an easy game to get good at. But all that is to say, play the game, or if you can’t, absolutely listen to the soundtrack. It’s awesome.
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Seconding this for the co-op play. It just captures the feeling of a heist so perfectly in a bite-sized package. In a matter of seconds you'll go from everyone calm and knowing their role, to full panic mode as soon as someone makes a mistake, to a wary sense of relief as you manage to barely get to safety but still have to complete your mission.
I didn't know about the sequel. Now I'm tempted to try it...
I really like the soundtrack to Suikoden. Maybe it's nostalgia, but it's one of the better ones for me.
And lunar silver star story is pretty good too.
Baldurs Gate 2, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Hotline Miami
Hotline Miami is a banger, the game and the soundtrack.
I love the Celeste OST. In general I like does made by Lena raine but that one is my favorite.
FTL, diablo II, The Sims (build music), ecco the dolphin (sega cd), hardspace shipbreaker
- MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bears Revenge
- BioShock Infinite
- Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous
- Eternal Sonata
- Jet Set Radio
- Hades
- Burnout Revenge
JET SET RADIOOOOOOOOOOO
Celest, little big planet
The Batman Arkham games had some pretty awesome soundtracks.
City brings me back no matter when I give it a listen. Origins, despite being the black sheep, had an awesome soundtrack too.
Yeah for sure, I actually watched Batman Begins at the cinema this weekend for the 20th anniversary and I'm itching to jump back into the Arkham games after that. Such a great series overall.
I love so many video game soundtracks, so I'll try to just list a few:
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Monster Hunter: Tri (wonderful balance of stirring and cozy)
- Bloodborne (really almost all of FromSoft's soundtracks, but especially this one)
I also really like Hollow Knight and Hades soundtracks, and of course DOOM (2016) has already been mentioned.
Anything Xenoblade, but especially 1 and X.
I got bored of Undertale quickly, but the OST is an all-time great.
Shovel Knight is really good.
Earthbound/Mother (mainly Mother 3)
Zelda (especially Ocarina and Twilight Princess)
Ratchet & Clank (especially the first game had some bangers)
Half Life, surprisingly. It has very little music but Diabolical Adrenaline Guitar drops at the perfect moment and makes you feel like you're living in an action movie. 🤌
OFF by Mortis Ghost is similar. Mostly ambient tracks but the melodic ones hit different
Bastion had a fantastic soundtrack. I still have songs from that game in rotation. There are a few perfectly timed music queues that made each song just hit hard.
Ori and the Blind Forest/ Will of the Wisps Still the only two games that I've sought out and added the music to my playlists, although Skyrim and LoZ songs tend to be covered by artists in my daily rotations
Night in the Woods
Hollow Knight
CrossCode
Minecraft
Chicory (Lena Raine is goated with the sauce)
Kirby's Dream Course
Gen 3 and 4 Pokemon games
Anything Toby Fox touches
Later Alligator
Pretty much any Nintendo game since the NES
Night in the Woods soundtrack got me through recovery after having my appendix out. 10/10
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and anything at all by Jeremy Soule (Guild Wars, Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, Dungeon Siege).
Grim Fandango.
Seriously, it's one of the only games I consider to even HAVE a soundtrack. It's absolutely next-level.
Nobody has mentioned the Fallout games, but they always have a great radio station you can turn on for background music. Sometimes the soundtrack itself is pretty good too.
Absolutely, the radio is fantastic. No joke it’s what got me into jazz which is one of my favourite genres now.
Surprised Halo wasn't mentioned yet.
Me too. I didn’t want to take any freebies with my initial comment and figured Halo would be picked pretty quick. I’m glad someone finally mentioned it.
Kingdom Hearts
Yoko Shimomura is outrageously talented. Obviously there's a lot of Disney-esque stuff mixed in, but there are a bunch of original tracks that are epic af
I really like SimCity 3000’s jazz soundtrack. That was the first time I remember playing a game where the soundtrack was released separately.
Honorable mention goes to DX-Ball 2, which introduced me to a lot of electronic music and the concept of module/tracker music. The game by default came with just 4 .mod songs but on the website you could download additional files from the same creator, or add other .mod files from other sources to a folder and they’d appear in the game. First shareware game I ever bought, and paid by sending a money order through the mail because I was too young to have a credit card.
I'm honestly surprised no one has mentioned Chrono Trigger yet. Absolutely fantastic soundtrack.
Secret of mana 3 is also great. The track that comes to mind is "where angels fear to tread"
In no particular order or genre:
- Rise of the Triad 2013
- Bullets per Minute
- Anything made by PixelJunk (currently enjoying Eden and Shooter soundtracks)
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
- Far too many games on the Dreamcast to remember them all, but I will specifically call out Rezs' Level 5 Adam Freeland - Fear is the Mindkiller
- Distance
- DJ Max
The Dead Space franchise. The Payday franchise. Skyrim. Stellaris. Starcraft II. The Age of Empires franchise. Warframe. Telltale's Batman. Starboard.
Just going through what I regularly listen to.
The Bastion OST by Darren Korn is amazing and introduced me to his other music, which is also great!
Absolute nonsense for this post to have 61 comments and none of them have mentioned Outer Wilds yet. Echoes of the Eye could be its own separate answer to this as well. Take a listen to this track, it is the essence of adventure in audio form
The soundtrack in Celeste is fantastic