Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs?

Is 2016 old enough now?
The DOOM 2016 soundtrack fucking rips.

Let's try and keep it below 10 11 entries:

• Disco Elysium
• Outer Wilds
• Hollow Knight
• Shadow of the Colossus + Ico
• Pyre (+all other Supergiant games)
• Valkyrie Profile
• Banner Saga trilogy
• Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
• Chrono Trigger + Cross
• Eastshade

Honestly nowadays so many games have great soundtracks, it is a joy to behold! Makes it harder to chose favorites though...

Bastion, Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Mirror's Edge.

and Hades, although I refuse to call it a "patient gamer" game

• Halo Combat Evolved
• Mirror's Edge
• Sim City 3000
• The Sims
• The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time
• Fez
• Flatout 2
• Jet Set Radio
• Sword and Sorcery LP

All of Persona OSTs, if i had to pick one it would be 5, but all of them have songs on my playlist that i hear to this day.

I also love Devil May Cry OSTs, i heard bury the light on repeat for months

Nier Automata. The entire discograpy

• Chrono Trigger
• Undertale/Deltarune
• The World Ends With You
• Jet Set Radio
• Them's Fightin' Herds
• F-Zero GX
• VVVVVV
• CrossCode
• Crypt of the Necrodancer
• Shatter

FTL

Bungie-era Halo has the best OST in the industry hands down, though recently Lunacid let me hear some certified bangers; someone here mentioned B:G&E, and I second that opinion although I wouldn't have thought of it myself.

Minecraft (incl. Wynncraft)

My top four haven't changed in a while:

• Chrono Cross
• Nier Gestalt/Replicant (original version)
• Persona 5
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

I love EDM, so any game that uses it or is inspired by it holds a special place in my heart, like Streets of Rage, Rez, Dance Dance Revolution, or the Trails of Cold Steel games (especially the second one).

Journey

Witcher 3: Lelelelele

Ones I haven't seen in this thread yet:

Cuphead, Cave Story, Celeste, Dredge, Furi, Katamari Damacy (and others in the series), Peggle, Super Mario Galaxy

A lot of great choices already: Persona 5, Hades, Katamari Damacy.

A kind of odd left-field one I'd like to add specifically for great music in-game, is Guacamelee 2. I don't know that it's the kind of music I'm likely to put on just to listen to randomly, but as far as in-game atmospheric music goes I think it's both tremendous and refreshingly unique amongst the landscape of video game music.

Chrono Trigger

Katamari Damacy!

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag is a close 2nd Edit: almost forgot about FEZ!

I'll skip the obvious ones with multiple artists like Furi, Katana Zero, Hotline Miami, Crypt of the Necrodancer...

Remember Me (2013) composed by Olivier Derivière

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXfIgywXknHjMdirPIkDaEOM4cCyceDE

Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus (2018) composed by Guillaume David

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyLLeKcxw24U8s8C24FyUQ0EVS30stymM

Bastion (2011) composed by Darren Korb (anything by Darren Korb)

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53mjgVKFq7yPfCiSJaA_aI2SPKrnEmmJ

Styx: Master of Shadows (2014) composed by H-Pi

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtzah_dj5hUXeBVTne3GZeJuIl2vWwL5P

140 (2013) composed by Jakob Schmid

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSwiiZF6c9CYrvMG-uNkkqzb6J3_-DhBP

Homeworld and Hotline Miami are my two favorites!

secret tip: Fez

Halo Reach, hands down. Phenomenal, all the feels

To The Moon

I have played that game five times (so I could share the experience with other people) and have broken down into tears at the end every time.

Deus Ex and System Shock 2

How has nobody mentioned Rimworld? Such an incredible soundtrack!

Metroid Prime

Sly cooper 1, crash twinsanity, Witcher 3, Banjo-Kazooie, Hi-Fi Rush, Nier Automata

Ace Combat, all of them but especially the PS2 Holy Trinity.

Shadow of the Colossus.

NFSU2, Most Wanted and Burnout 3, even if theyre licensed music and not really original.

Doom midis in general are fun. Touhou games too.

Final Fantasy VI, so much so that when OverClocked Remix kick started a remix album, I donated to it

Golden Sun GBA soundtrack. Also there are some really nice remixes of the fan community. The game is from 2001 but can be played with Nintendo Switch online subscription. As well as the second game (they are basically one game).

Minecraft

Nier Automata

Subnautica

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

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

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

Bit dated, but at the time Descent II’s Redbook sountrack was pretty good for ‘96.

Bloodborne OST is the first that comes to mind for me.

Anything handled by Nobou Uematsu.

Outer Wilds (and Echoes of the Eye) technically qualifies with the community's rules, but I think the answer more in keeping with the spirit of things is Shadow of the Colossus. The Opened Way is the most "fighting a building-sized monster as a normal guy but still winning" piece of music I have heard

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

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

Aquaria: Original Soundtrack by Alec Holowka

Such an underrated game. RIP Alec.

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2

mantis Lords from hollow knight

Trepang2

The Last of Us 1 & 2, all the Katamari games, Death Stranding

Gravity rush is pretty damn good. Haven't played the second one yet

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

Prince of Persia 2008

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.

Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.

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

Hard pick because I listen to a game or series for a while, then another. Just today I went and listened to a lot of Sonic tracks, which I do once every few months. I guess Atlus games (SMT, Persona, EO), Metal Gear Rising, Ace Attorney, TWEWY are in the lead off the top of my head, but after a month I might give a different answer. My relaxing music playlist is mostly the official classical arrangements of Etrian Odyssey 1+2, so let's go with that.

The Neverhood

The Sims 2

Hyper Light Drifter and Return of the Obra Dinn for different reasons.

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

Civ 3 had some killer modern music.

Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Lunar SSSC, Final Fantasy, Wild ARMs

Ash of the Gods and Pilgrims

Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2, OBVIOUSLY.

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

• Rome Total War
• Anno 1602
• Stronghold

I suspect I'm driven by nostalgia and by literally hundreds of hours of repeat exposure.

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.

SimCity 4 ❤️

Metal Gear Rising Revengence Need for Speed Most Wanted Hi-Fi Rush

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.

Nier Automata, Cyberpunk, System Shock 2, GTA Vice City, Doom 2016 (I cannot listen to Eternals soundtrack knowing how Mick Gordon got ripped off there)

I listen to Stellaris OST a lot these days. Turns out that good music to plan galactic domination is also good music to design and build software.

Don’t really play the game much anymore though. That was one of my main pandemic games.

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.

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.