Gaming

Deus Ex Human Revolution & Mankind Divided

All three Splatoon games have really solid OSTs. I am also a huge fan of Hollow Knight. Deep Rock Galactic is amazing as well.

I love so many OSTs. They really make a game/movie/show

The Maxis Sim City game has a great OST from Chris Tilton. Quite partial to Riven and Hotline Miami too.

Honourable mention for Bastion too. And sometime I like the This War of Mine acoustic guitar stuff.

Oh man, quite a few actually:

• Dusk
• Most of the Command and Conquer games
• Simcity 4
• Team Fortress 2
• Touhou
• Nier Automata

I could go on but i wanna keep this somewhat brief lol

I’ve always been a big fan of pretty much all of the Persona series’ soundtracks.

Mass Destruction from Persona 3 is just *chefs kiss*

I would say Factorio, the music fits both the atmosphere of an alien planet and a gigantic factory polluting the landscape

Necrodancer soundtrack is criminally good.

I think my absolute favorite that I haven't seen here is Gris. This game is absolutely beautiful as is the OST.

Cowboy Bebop, hands down. Oh, and Samurai Champloo.

edit: Heh, it's late and I didn't see the word "game". Leaving it up, though. 🤪

The original quake soundtrack is great if "sound textures by Nine Inch Nails" interests you. Adding on to that, try the soundtracks for fan-made quake campaigns like Arcane Dimensions and Dwell.

I would say Halo 3: the music that play in the teaser triggered a HUGE hype instantly and because bungie delivered, the game has a special place in my heart, including the OST.

This year Baldur's Gate 3 OST is also about to be a banger (hope larian win the best score at the GA, even if it will be complicated with FFXVI OST)

Nier Automata/Replicant and Metal Gear Rising are my favourite soundtracks if not music in general. The Nier soundtrack is so emotional, especially when you know the story behind the songs, while the Metal Gear Rising Soundtrack is basically just pure adrenaline.

I really love Divinity 2's soundtrack.

StarCraft: Brood War - Terran theme

Hollow Knight ofc, but also love Risk of Rain 2's OST, cyberpunk 2077 has a lot of bangers in there too. Unironically Spore has a nice soundtrack, but ofc it's better when you're in-game. Mass Effect has several bangers per game, especially love the OSTs of ME2 and 3. I love a lot of game music, especially when it's enhancing a moment in the game. Like in Spore when you're on the main menu with the spiral galaxy, or in ME2 when you're on the final mission. The thing that sold me on Cyberpunks OST was two fold: the radio stations are great, but the secret ending while listening to The Rebel Path is an adrenaline rush.

Halo (of course), Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077, Doom, Elder Scrolls, the Sega Genesis Sonic games, Psychonauts, Super Mario, Mirror's Edge, hell, I never really thought about it before but there is a lot of good stuff out there.

I am wondering why nobody said this yet, but Undertale! Also, the super smash series always had great osts too

• Hardspace: Shipbreaker
• Risk of Rain 2
• Gran Turismo (literally all of them, but 4 is a classic)
• Super Mario Galaxy 1&2
• Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies (still get chills from it every time I listen)

Not sure if favourite, but Minecraft soundtrack hits different now

Jake Kaufman always does amazing work, here's some of my favorites of his from the Shantae series: https://youtu.be/ovk4ygEzMCI
https://youtu.be/3OhJnSL4XWA
https://youtu.be/MZ7bCDjif9M
https://youtu.be/6wJmVxvJTEs

Cave Story has some great retro tracks. Some people prefer the originals but I played it with the arranged versions: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr5fTLogAd5tW_oPORRtgznxL-kUt9z7h

Little known PC game called Chenso Club has a pumping soundtrack by Knasibas: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nHBZFT82t4__lHXCD8bi3WhA98hQaSGuo&feature=share

Granado Espada is a favorite classic and then there's Suikoden for the nostalgia

nobody has mentioned disco elysium? legendary soudtrack immo

Guild Wars 2 for sure. It's one of the games where I never turn the music off.

Undertale is my #1. Bully is my #2.

FFVIII or FFX

Genshin OST, especially Sumeru, Absolutely slaps

Persona 5 is my jam. Liked it so much I bought it on vinyl. Nier Automata is good too, more haunting and lends to the game's mood/ambience. I think Firewatch is like this too. Jet Set Radio Future and Persona 3 are also really groovy.

Doom 2016

There's this french MMO i played as a kid called Dofus and that soundtrack still hits hard when I listen. I think part of it is nostalgia but also its just so beautiful

Persona 3-5 and Doom 2016 win by virtue of being the only ones I listen to regularly outside of playing the games. Doom is probably at the top, the album version is just incredible.

Honorable mentions go to the entire Zelda and Mario catalog, especially LttP and Super Mario World. They're the nostalgic sounds of my childhood and stuck in my head often, I just don't go out of my way to listen to them.

Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross will always bring me to tears. 💙 Also Robo's Theme is a banger!

I used to fall asleep to a Morrowind OST CD.

There are so many good game soundtracks listed in this tread!

Here are some of my favorites:

• Chrono Trigger
• Diablo II
• Elden Ring
• Final Fantasy (and pretty much anything by Nobuo Uematsu)
• Hades (and all of the Supergiant Games soundtracks)
• NieR: Automata
• Witcher III

Far Cry 5. It's probably the only game I've played that has the same songs written in totally distinct music styles. Each song, like "We Will Rise Again", is written as:

• A church hymnal (men and women's mixed chorus)

• A folk song (bluegrass inspired, fiddles, acoustic guitars, and steel harps)

• An ethereal rendition by Hammock that evokes the "bliss" part of the game world that the character Faith rules.

It's amazing that all three of these songs are the same in lyrics and meaning, but their execution is completely different and had very different emotional feels as a result.

Ridge Racer Type 4

I have yet to find a racing game that makes me trance away with their scenic levels and music like this one.

Been replaying it since forever waiting for Namco to make a remaster or continuing the series

Minecraft and Terraria, oh yeah also Hollow Knight

• Ico
• Final Fantasy XIII
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Stellaris
• Warhammer 40k: Darktide
• Kingdom Hearts
• Mirror's Edge
• Modern Warfare 2
• Need for Speed: Most Wanted (OG)
• Ratchet & Clank
• Halo 3: ODST
• Persona 5

Shadow of the Colossus and Undertale.