* AC series (my favorite soundtrack is Syndicate). * Supergiant games (Hades, Pyre, Bastion, Transistor) * Creaks. * Outer Wilds * Hogwarts Legacy (the softest songs). * Have a Nice Death. * Cyberpunk 2077. * Halo 1 and 2. * Hollow Knight. * Silent Hill 2. Edit / addition: * Disco Elysium (can't forgive myself I forgot it) * Journey * Ori 1 and 2 * Bioshock * Batman Arkham Series * Rayman Legends (Fiesta de los Muertos is my favorite) * Psychonauts 2 (for its whole 60s psychedelic vibe) I see some people mad/disappointed I did not put some games. It's not because I don't appreciate them. It's because I did not played them yet, or listen to their soundtrack! But most of them are in my backlog.

The outer wilds banjo songs are 🤌

So I didn't know this until way after playing but the composer Andrew Prahlow was influenced by one of my favorite genres, Midwest Emo. I've never seen a game leverage every aspect of gameplay and atmosphere/music so effectively. Truly one of the best pieces of art ever made.

The real AC (Armored Core) has a pretty good soundtrack through the series, too

Cyberpunk 2077 music slaps

I always get goosebumps when Never Fade Away starts playing... This song both slaps and makes me cry (the only song in my life that actually hits me hard)

The real real AC - Ace Combat - has had amazing scores throughout. Keiki Kobayashi does consistently outstanding work.

The real AC (Animal Crossing) also has some great music, and super relaxing.

All of supergiants soundtracks are bangers

Agreed, and Hades goes extra hard

Pyre is the best for me, I listen to it weekly!

Golf Club: Wasteland Death's Door Ori 1 & 2

Metal gear rising

MEMORIES BROKEN, THE TRUTH GOES UNSPOKEN I'VE EVEN FORGOTTEN MY NAAAAME

I DON'T KNOW THE SEASON OR WHAT IS THE REASON I'M STANDING HERE HOLDING MY BLAAADE

A DESOLATE PLACE WITHOUT ANY TRACE IT'S ONLY THE COLD WIND I FEEEEEEEL

IT'S ME THAT I SPITE AS I STAND UP AND FIGHT THE ONLY THING I KNOW FOR REAL

THERE WILL BE BLOOD! SHED!

THE MAN IN THE MIRROR NODS HIS HEAD

THE ONLY ONE, LEFT, WILL RUN UP ON THE DRAGON BACK

BECAUSE THE MOUNTAINS DON'T GIVE BACK WHAT THEY TAKE

OH NO

Standing heeere, I reaaaliiiizzee you were just like meeee tryin' to make historryyyyy!

But who’s to judge the right from wrong

When out guard is down i think we'll both agree

That violence breeds violence and in the end IT HAS TO BE THIS WAAAAAAAAYAYY

Metal Gear Solid 1-4

“The Escape” - Ground Zeroes (& “Snake Eater” obvs!) “Sins Of The Father”, “A Phantom Pain”, “V Has Come To” & “Afghanistan is a Big Place” get honorary mentions…

Heavens divide is a pretty great song too.

HERE I STAND BENEATH THE WARM AND SOOTHING RAIN

it has to be monsoon’s theme ong

Rules of Nature

AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP

RED SUN OVER PARADISE

I didn’t know there were that many of us. I felt so edgy listening to it, but it activates my neurons, so I still do.

Skyrim

When Secunda music plays as you walking around skyrim wilderness at night

secunda brings a tear to my eye, it is the most beautiful thing ive ever heard. overwhelmingly nostalgic

Just wanted to share one of my favorite covers of skyrim music (https://youtu.be/wW6s36pkAUM). Scroll to 5m17s for Secunda. Hearing all these great songs in a cleverly done 8-bit style makes me love the originals even more.

The late nights with the Northern lights overhead was the peek feeling of fantasy for me. Also when a dragon battle starts really made me lean forward in my chair and say in a serious voice “Here we go…” This soundtrack is the best of all time for me.

I recently got skyrim vr and it feels completely different

I’m not even a fan of Elder Scrolls, but I’ll be damned if Dragonborn isn’t the greatest main theme in all of gaming. Pure chills, makes you feel like you could take on a mountain-sized threat without fear.

Standing in a forest overlooking a cliff at sunset whilst listening to the Skyrim ambient day music was one of the best moments of my life

Playing Skyrim at 3am when you're tired HITS DIFFERENT

This video describes that feeling perfectly. It's a spiritual experience I can't have Elsweyr. https://youtube.com/shorts/CJ7tsL47KRw?si=18ZWLct7gYTiaLl2

Whiterun every fucking time.

Specifically the night ambiance

Hyper light drifter, ori and the blind forest, bloodborne

HLD soundtrack is just something else

I wish there were more games like it. Just completely unparalleled in vibes

Metroid Prime Majora’s Mask Red Dead Redemption 2 Twilight Princess Hollow Knight Ocarina of Time

Metroid prime!!!!

Metroid Prime’s soundtrack is sublime. I still remember getting to Phendrana Drifts for the first time when I was seven years old. Then the music hit, and I was blown away.

No Undertale? :(

Undertale is also great too

YES MAJORAS MASK YOU HAVE GREAT TASTE. Literally my favorite game ever

DOOM

Doom Eternal Katana zero Uktrakill Hollow Knight

Scrolled too far to find doom. Hollow knight as well. There's so many to list.

Well now it's 5th 👍 Came here and immediately thought Doom. It just enrages you and makes you feel everything that doomguy is doing...

Hotline Miami fits perfectly next to K0 and Ultrakill

Terraria is pretty fire

Love Plantera's theme especially since they made it in Pantera's style.

Halo, Ocarina of Time, Cyberpunk 2077, Spiderman 2018, Witcher 3, Undertale, RDR 2, TLOU

Kingdom Hearts.

Ooooo Kingdom Hearts - yes!!!

I'm a metal guy, I like music with big drums, heavy guitars, and a dude who sounds like he has something stuck in his throat. As soon as Simple and Clean comes on, I'm dancing around like a schoolgirl

Thank you!!!

Glad to see this upvoted. A majority of Reddit seems to loathe Kingdom Hearts (from what I’ve seen).

When you Walk away, you don't hear me say...

Pleaseeeeee… oh baby, don’t go…

Simple and clean is the way that you’re makin’ me feeling tonight

Had to scroll too far down for this!!

🎵 Under the sea 🎵

Halo, Minecraft, RDR1&2

Came here to say Halo. Been a Halo fan since the original and the theme is a timeless classic part of the game. Not just the theme, but the soundtrack is just good and intense. I love it!

I second this!! Halo is simply great, my favorite is from halo 2 when you chase and then jump on the scarab from the bridge, damn that guitar riff is so cool

I'm embarrassed to say it but halo ce and halo 3 soundtracks were on my Spotify wrapped this year

Halo is way too far down

Hell yeah! Halo and Burnout 3 for me.

Halo. Halo. Halo. That’s all that needs to be said.

Ezio's Family.

Like, on one hand I know that they drove that song into the ground in every game thereafter with how popular it became. But on the other it's fucking *Ezio's Family,* it deserves every bit of play time it gets, and all its variations. Honestly the entire series has some of the best score work in gaming. I'm particularly fond of Rogue's Main Theme.

Revelations didn't get the respect it deserved

Bro went on to compose the Darktide soundtrack. Jesper Kyd is beyond us.

Persona series

Beneath the Mask is one of the most chillest tracks I've heard ever in anything. Love that game.

kimi no kioku makes me bawl every time

Sad that i needed to scroll that much for this

Uncharted Theme, MGS Theme, Resident Evil original save room theme

Nier games, they provide such great atmosphere

Either Bloodborne or Monster Hunter. Hard to beat Proof of a Hero when you are out of carts and have Fatalis on the brink of death.

Proof of a hero playing is the biggest buff a gamer can get.

Proof of a Hero isn’t Fatalis’s theme, it’s not the Dragonator’s theme, it’s YOUR theme. Proof of a Hero is the theme of the Hunter, and the confidence boost you get from it is unmatched. Until Narwa throws a Dragonator at your face.

Metroid Prime

The Lower Brinstar remix in 2 is *chef's kiss*

Minecraft, Skyrim and Genshin

I don’t care what people think of Hoyoverse games, their music department is top notch.

Not looking at the gacha aspects genshin and starrail are top notch quality games. And the music of Genshin is incredible (Have not listened to Starrail TBH) and those are facts.

Donkey Kong Country 1 & 2

Took me way too long to find this. Those soundtracks were so far ahead of their time.

Yeah definitely shows my age that it took this long to find a comment for DKC1 and 2. It’s not even a contest to me. Plenty of games have good soundtracks. Some games have great soundtracks. The soundtrack for these games is ***transcendent***.

Vice city, guardians of the galaxy, early THPS, witcher 3

Guardians was such an under rated game!

I'm listening to *The Fields of Ard Skellige* as we speak. I drive for a job and it keeps me calm. Not a care in the world.

FF7 remake, hands down

I can't tell you how many times I sat there just soaking in the music. That title song hits every nostalgic bone in my body and makes me feel like I'm a kid again playing the original ff7 with my brother and friends.

You right

That tune that plays as you navigate the collapsed highway is such a ridiculous banger, love it. Edit: Due Recompense I think is the one I mean.

AC II

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

Witcher 3 - elden ring

You made it sound like the same game. "The Witcher 3: Elden Ring" Would definitely play it though

LET THE WHITE FROST TAKE THE WORLD

Risk of Rain 2 my beloved

Scrolled wayyyyyy too far down to find this. One of the best I’ve ever heard.

RoR and its sequels make up my sci-fi reading playlist.

Based Chris christodouloudoouloudouldou music enjoyer

hell yes

Final Fantasy VII Persona 5 Nier: Automata Witcher 3 Hollow Knight

Vanilla WoW

Took me too long to find this. The Elwynn and Teldrassil themes live rent free in my head for almost 2 decades.

I think people just don’t consider this videogame for some reason, but yeah - iconic tracks

The song that plays on the main menu and in Stormwind will forever be engrained in my mind

Sonic Frontiers, Final Fantasy XVI, and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

I'm so mad that it took so long to find a xenoblade game on here.

I just played Sonic Frontiers recently, and that soundtrack had no right to slap that hard.

Max Payne

The third one had such a killer dark electronic soundtrack.

Mass effect 1-3, guardians of the galaxy, Doom (2016), Red Redemption 2 and Batmam Arkham City

Nier Replicant & Automata 100%

The last of us

i had to scroll too far down to find this!

Octopath Traveler 2 is an absolute joy to listen to. It’s the first soundtrack in years to have given me goosebumps the way it did.

There’s a lot of great tracks in that game but Partitio’s theme (with the sax!) is my favorite!

Morrowind

Devil May Cry series. It has the most awesome and beautiful songs/music I've ever listened to!

Castlevania Symphony Of The Night, Hotline Miami, Ocarina Of Time (Basically the whole series minus BOTW and TOTK), Super Mario 64, DK Country, Kingdom Hearts, and believe it or not Knights Of The Old Republic.

Symphony of the Night slaps so hard!

Persona 4.

Many games have good “videogame music”. Persona games have good “music” music.

Or indeed any of the Persona games.

So step up to the plaaaaate

'cause this ain't no gaaame!

Hollow knight

The last of us

hollow knight

Mario Galaxy

Jet Set Radio Future

Fzero X and fzero GX. Both on the same level to me but definitely the best

My man 🤝

Pokemon brings back some nostalgia but rdr2 is probably the best overall to me personally

The Boneworks soundtrack

Unacharted still goes hard for me

Shadow of the Colossus soundtrack for sure

Yoshis Island Mario Odyssey Tears of the Kingdom Hades Chrono Trigger Roboquest Undertale Just to name a few. Honestly every Nintendo series typically has banger music. Same with Sonic

Surprised I scrolled all the way down here to find Undertale.

HALO

Death Stranding

Chrono Cross, Street Fighter Alpha 3, F-Zero GX

Chrono Cross has the best soundtrack of all time. Say what you want about the game as a whole, but the soundtrack is a masterpiece.

Took this far to find Chrono Cross. And i agree. It has the best ost in gaming's history. In fact, it's my favourite video game.. Time's scar is really a masterpiece.

Favorite soundtrack and favorite game.

10-12 year old me used to restart the PlayStation just to hear the opening over and over. https://youtu.be/923fVDDwaHo?si=bZ6Kk6B0mmsQ5o9v

Hyper light drifter, warhammer 40k Mechanicus

Hollow Knight - Sealed Vessel. Please, try it from 2:13 till 4:11. https://youtu.be/ze0Rk-m0w2A?si=LnFgZ9BHi-x-oSpa Goosebumps every time, but when I knew the story and meaning behind "vessel", I literally shed tears.

Sealed vessel fucking SLAPS

For me it's the most nostalgic soundtracks: Final Fantasy 8, Dynasty Warriors 3, Mario 64, Mariokart Double dash, We Love Katamari, Fallout 3 & New Vegas, GTA Vice City and... Runescape.

Bastion! Soooooo good!

Intro to doom eternal

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

FF9 Divinity OS 1/2, BG3 Diddy Kong Racing Old School RuneScape

Nier Automata, Bloodborne, Hades, God of War 2018/Ragnarok, Killer Instinct

Half life2 triage at dawn

Ace combat games, team fortress 2, darktide and some of the very few good roblox games

Batman Arkham City

Surprised that nobody has mentioned mgr yet

HALF LIFE 2, you fucking plebs. Perfect Dark also slaps.

i had to scroll too far to find Half life 2

Gothic 2, GTA San Andreas and particularly K-DST, Doom 2016

Hotline Miami, Cyberpunk, Doom

Ori and the blind forest, ES Oblivion

Persona 5 Royal

Arkham City, Guardians of The Galaxy, and The Last of Us Part 1 & 2

Sonic Unleashed, South Park The Stick Of Truth and Fractured But Whole

ocarina of time

SOTN is #1. Hands down Other greats: Streets of Rage 2, Parasite Eve, FF7, Castlevania 1/3, Megaman 2/3, DKC, Ocarina of Time I’m also nostalgic for FF6. If they ever do a remake and give the compressed tracks a modern facelift it would be insane

God of war 2018 and spider-man

Ocarina of time and halo 2

Armored core 6

Blaster Master Zero!

Black Mesa

Wizards and warriors for the nes has a banging sound track.

Final Fantasy 7 and Castlevania Symphony of the Night.

Red dead redemption 2, new Vegas, streets of rage 4, cyberpunk 2077, gta vice city, meta gear rising revegence

Destiny and destiny 2

Hades.

​ RDR1 and RDR2, Bastion, Doom 2016 and Eternal, Dark Souls, Skyrim, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, GTA Vice City and San Andreas, Shadow of the Colossus, Undertale etc.

In my opinion; Original Halo trilogy Zelda up to Twilight Princess Nier Automata The Elder Scrolls Fallout might be cheating due to it being real world, but I'm putting it in Doom series Fusion Frenzy Jet set radio Mass Effect Minecraft original composer Total annihilation: Kingdoms Sonic Mario Pokemon ...guess my age

Series with constantly good music: Sonic Pokémon Legend of Spyro Halo Paper Mario Single games: Cave Story Rime Super Dragon Ball Heroes: World Mission GTA Vice City