Amon Tobins Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory soundtrack is a solid ambient/electronic album that I keep returning to.
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Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
I have played 4 Warhammer games and never touched the tabletop. Don't know how I got into this game but once I did, it didn't leave my head. I have one shuffle list I listen to and this sits there very comfortably.
- Hotline Miami
- Katamari Damacy
- Vice City
- Bastion
Madden 10 has an unusally stacked soundtrack list. it is honestly absurd the sheer amount of legendary bands in that game
mlb 2k6 also has a great soundtrack, has interpol, pavement, fall of troy, pretty girls make graves, cornelius
The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour remain top-tier for me. The music was half the experience, turn it up and just enjoy that creepy vibe while solving puzzles. And they're all on The Fat Man's Bandcamp now!
Also, there's an industrial rock cover album on vinyl currently looking for funding on Kickstarter. I'm super excited!
My dad and I used to play 7th Guest together. What a classic! It’s been a long time since I played that one. Had it on CD-ROM. Now I need to go find the soundtrack.
The full soundtracks to both games are on the Fat Man's Bandcamp, which I linked up above. Also, the "greatest hits" collection album 7/11 is on Spotify. It's surprisingly easy to listen to these days!
I love game OST so it really depends on my mood. For now the vibe is Planet Coaster.
Chained Echoes
Witcher
Doom 2016
Hyper Light Drifter really deserves a mention too!
Planet coaster. Released on streaming, it’s just so relaxing.
Ace Combat, mainly Ace Combat 5 but all of them are well known for their soundtracks.
More recently WARNO has excellent music so far, even though most of it was licensed by Eugen from third parties so it doesn't really count as a soundtrack specific to the game.
It's a very small soundtrack, but Demon Truck has absolute banger music. Definitely one of my favorites.
- Nier (both games)
- World Ends With You
- Jet Set Radio
- Splatoon
- Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger is an absolute classic. I'll listen to the full soundtrack often. When playing other games actually.
I love Flatout soundtrack - wreck cars and listen to Symphony of destruction and other songs.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKlbTXjy-F6q9qbt1hM78aD9dvXTMOMDG
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKlbTXjy-F6qz1HCLkVOMjQS2XnxYEIGO
Dr. Wily's Castle from Mega Man 2.
All of Mega Man 2's soundtrack was amazing. Such an improvement over the original game.
Did you know? That song had to be made shorter, and was reused in the second level, due to them running out of space on the cartridge.
Gotta run gotta run now
Probably GTA SA. Blew my tiny mind to find out Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith, singer of Crystal Ship was voiced by Axl Rose.
You're on The Dust
Then again, VC had some absolute bangers too and I think is the only GTA that had me listening to the pop channel as much as the rock channel.
Wow, I didn’t know he was one of the voices. That’s great lmao. I love how many celebrities they manage to get for the stations. Like Kenny Loggins, Frank Ocean, Iggy Pop, Kat Williams.
Double Dragon Neon has an absolutely banging soundtrack. I wish I could get it on Spotify, but it's only on Bandcamp. Mango Tango is amazing.
I really lime the Dark Souls 3 soundtrack. Elden Ring's is okay, but there's just something about it that isn't as cool.
Sekiro's is good in an entirely different reason. It's a different style so I wanted to mention it separately.
I also like what they did with Pokemon Black and White I and II. Driftveil City theme lives rent free in my mind.
Assuming visual novels count as "games", probably one of the best soundtracks I've ever run across is the one for Everlasting Summer. Both Silent Owl (Sergey Eybog) and Between August and December did amazing work on it.
Not OST but I really vibed with Fallout 3 radio. It was cool to learn about old songs from that game.
Deus Ex Human Revolution, Mass Effect 1, Diablo 2.
My favorite would probably be Super Mario Galaxy 2 OST. That game had really good music, so good I think it got nominated for an award or something. The music is nice and riveting.
Infamous for introducing me to one of my now all time favorite musicians. Amon Tobin.
And a lot earlier Quake that planted the first seeds for my love of NIN.
The Dig, FFVII, Indiana Jones and the fate of atlantis, Morrowind, Quake.
Lots more, especially classic midi tracks but those are my top 5 (subject to change of mood and season).
Shout out to Morrowind. That opening menu BOOM, BOOM-BOOM gives me chills.
Also Final Fantasy VIII, X, XII are some of my favorites of the series. But the franchise really has a lot of top-tier music.
Recently I completed Crossing Souls. It's a game overloaded with 80s nostalgia. The soundtrack is from two composers. The first has 80s synth tracks while the other providers John Williams / Amblin like scores as the story of a group of young friends and feels like a movie from that time.
Every time when people talk about game soundtracks, they should include Chrono Cross
For recent games, FFXVI has an amazing soundtrack, I think the OST will be released on July 19th
I recently replayed Persona PSP, and that game has amazing soundtrack, but kinda marred by the fact that there's only one non-boss battle them, and the encounter rate is too high, so you ended up listening to the same song all the time.
Everything by Grant Kirkhope is great shout out to the Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie osts, also Skies of Arcadia
The Banjo games are such gems. I really need to replay those.