What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?

Doom 2016

Portal 2

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"

Surprised Halo wasn't mentioned yet.

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

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.

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.

• Eternal Sonata
• Jet Set Radio
• Hades
• Burnout Revenge

Recently,

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I think the soundtrack was the best part of the game.

All time,

Anything Final Fantasy or Elder Scrolls is timeless.

Baldurs Gate 2, GTA Vice City, GTA San Andreas, Hotline Miami

I love the soundtrack to Final Fantasy 6. Brings back good memories.

Death Stranding

Celest, little big planet

Grim Fandango.

Seriously, it's one of the only games I consider to even HAVE a soundtrack. It's absolutely next-level.

Hotline Miami

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.

Anything by David Wise, especially Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2.

Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest has the best music in the entire series, don't @ me.

The Grandia theme.

The Nier games have gorgeous music.

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and anything at all by Jeremy Soule (Guild Wars, Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, Dungeon Siege).

Not seen mentioned yet, but Homeworld (1999).

The transition from the opening cutscene to the game proper scored to Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings) by Samuel Barber really set the tone for the thing.

I don't remember much else about the soundtrack, but that one piece stuck with me.

Deus Ex (first one)

Cult of the Lamb

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

Shadow of the Colossus

Legend of Mana, Stardew Valley, Persona 5, Danganronpa Series

Night in the Woods

Hollow Knight

CrossCode

Minecraft

Cult of the Lamb

Chicory (Lena Raine is goated with the sauce)

Kirby's Dream Course

Gen 3 and 4 Pokemon games

Anything Toby Fox touches

Later Alligator

Stardew Valley

Guitar Hero: Modern Hits for the DS baybee

Pretty much any Nintendo game since the NES

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

FTL, diablo II, The Sims (build music), ecco the dolphin (sega cd), hardspace shipbreaker

Braid

Nier music is really good, especially Dark Colossus

Paradise Killer

Unreal Tournament

Terminal Velocity

Just comented this in another thread, but Amon Tobin's soundtrack for Splinter Cell Chaos Theory goes fucking hard.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nphWymI_0f4SxcEak39sDr0k0CxujIOws

Chrono Cross OST is probably one of the best sound tracks I've ever heard and still listen to regularly.

Same with most Zelda soundtracks. Wind Waker especially had an amazing OST.

Surprised no one said Nier Automata yet. Great soundtrack and game

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.

Shadowrun Hong Kong, and Ronin, the game on Steam with the chick and motorcycle helmet. There is also an app called Kingturn RPG that rocks. Oh and I almost forgot the best one of all, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance.

Cassette Beasts

River City Girls

Sayonara Wild Hearts. The game itself is fantastic, as well. It's basically one big, playable album. One of my favorites.

For anyone that does get the album, I recommend listening to it in game order over album order. Maybe it's just cause I'm most familiar with it while playing the game, but it makes more sense in that order, imo.

• MechWarrior 2: Ghost Bears Revenge
• BioShock Infinite
• Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous

I recently played Hi Fi Rush, and walking into the first boss and hearing the song choice got me so hyped. I was chasing that high for the rest of the game. The whole soundtrack really felt catered for me, specifically, but that one NIN track in that moment got me more pumped than anything else.

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.

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.

The Batman Arkham games had some pretty awesome soundtracks.

Kind of obvious, but Hades is largely just banger after banger, I especially love Good Riddance. No Escape is also a highlight, and the way it's echoed and enhanced in God of the Dead is fantastic.

I do think the Wasteland 3 soundtrack doesn't get enough love, I really enjoyed their takes on some classics.

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