Patient Gamers

Hollow Knight, though I don't really listen to it outside the game.
Cyberpunk has some great songs on the radio.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is my favorite OST by number of tracks that I love. It has several absolute banger tracks, like Morpheus3, Hyperblast-Redux, Convoy, Atlantis and Level11. I often keep a number of those tracks on my playlists.

Although I don't like the game itself much (I suck at it), Cloudbuilt also has some awesome tracks, my personal favorite is Aurora. The guitar chords at the apex is just heavenly.

Rebel Galaxy has some very nice stuff to feel like a 'merican space cowboy, it's mostly licensed music as far as i can tell.

Assault Android Cactus usually gets your blood pumping hard, which is great because the game is a pretty fun twin-stick arena. The tracks Assault and Licorice are just 👨‍🍳😙👌

... Come to think of it, looking at my list, I'm a real sucker for sci-fi OSTs, huh. I do want to make honorable mentions to Mass Effect (mostly 2), Skyrim and Smash Bros. Ultimate

Anything handled by Nobou Uematsu.

• Shovel Knight
• Chrono Trigger
• Unreal Tournament 99
• Quake II

All you young'uns and your fancy moderns music.

Nothing beats Gone Jackals songs in Full Throttle.

https://youtu.be/Dih7toPsows?si=wENFI_wtzVJstjHG&t=110

• FTL Multiverse (Kix et. al.)
• Touhou
• Supergiant Games
• Blue Archive
• Minecraft

Feeling nostalgic and I was just listening to the Pokemon gen2 soundtrack

Undertale, Celeste, Katamari, Syonara Wild Hearts, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid, Persona 4G, Persona 5R

Minecraft

Nier Automata

Subnautica

Prince of Persia 2008

The Neverhood

Morrowind and project wingman are peak. FFXIV is fantastic with a persistent leitmotif across each entire expansion. The final endwalker boss basically wrapped up YEARS worth of story and that fight music was a medly featuring every expansion's leitmotif and holy shit I can't get over how incredible it was. Also the pandaemonium raid music. And Alexander. Seriously you can rabbit hole for HOURS on FFXIV music.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

The Sims 2

mantis Lords from hollow knight

Trepang2

Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
• Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon

Aquaria: Original Soundtrack by Alec Holowka

Such an underrated game. RIP Alec.

No game will ever have a better soundtrack than Halo 3

The old Deus Ex and Endless Space are the ones I listen to the most.

I've been listening to alot of Amateur composers like Boris Harazanov, Baltic House Orchestra, Mathias Fritsch and Filip Lakovic.

I’ve started recognizing when a section of a game feels baller, but it’s 99% because of the soundtrack. They can have the most generic basis for an emotional scene, and then as long as the music nails the mood it could be just blocks on a screen.

Final Fantasy XIV has had awe-inspiring tracks for the finales of each expansion since Shadowbringers; pretty much starting at the final zone through the final dungeon and trial.

Ace Attorney always gets it with its confrontation tracks; it could just be two people arguing in a hallway and it turns the battle of words into the most epic thing.

I’ll also give a shout out to Ori and the Blind Forest / Will of the Wisps. For both of those, it’s not just a few banger tracks for the exciting moments; even the downtime tracks are so memorable.

SimCity 4 ❤️

Pokemon USUM. If there was a looped version of the tracks, I‘d probably listen to it every day lol, it just boosts my mood. Sadly, the soundtrack (that I have) has them at 1-2 minutes.

right now i'll have to go with "The Neverhood Chronicles", it's stuck in my head since i started playing it again last week on a PS1 Emu.

Mechanicus and

Ixion

Both games came out fairly recent and have OSTs by Guillaume David. They are both good games on their own, but get great due to the OST.

You can check tehm out here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsX9WUdYnU&list=PLnSG0OA5vYnTLQ77f5EmLoW52vIX5jAAK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhTXyUERugQ&list=PLLIWYDpOq7WJYefSkcfYujE5JaLmB0Ezf