Good game soundtracks?

Boozilla , 7 hours ago

Hardspace: Shipbreaker has a beautiful ambient folk vibe:

youtu.be/6GE2qo5_3eA?si=qxt2bZYxhji6gvDX

PlasticQuality7519 , 8 hours ago

The Return of the Obra Dinn! Fantastic OST (maritime/sea shanty inspired) and a truly unique game too. youtu.be/8qvdAWLcPyU

Klanky , 8 hours ago

Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters has some great tunes.

Edit: and The Talos Principle

Waveform , 8 hours ago

The Ys series OSTs, especially the PSP titles. Nice mix of metal and violin.

Hollow Night. The City of Tears track in particular.

Any covers made by Orchestral Fantasy on YouTube. He focuses mainly on classic 16-bit titles and pretty much nails each one.

Sterile_Technique , 6 hours ago

Nice mix of metal and violin.

Juuuuust in case you’re not already familiar with symphonic metal… It’s pretty fuckin great.

Waveform , 5 hours ago

I do like symphonic metal, and that’s a great song… it gave me goosebumps. I’ll be sure to check out more of Blind Guardian’s work. Any other suggestions are welcome! Maybe stuff similar to Epica’s Omega album, and instrumental pieces similar to Essence of Datum, Mohamed Shawky, Rivers of Nihil, & Naxatras, if you’ve got the time :D

Sterile_Technique , 3 hours ago (edited 3 hours ago)

Blind Guardian is pretty hit-and-miss: their shit lands somewhere on a spectrum of metal to renaissance-faire lol. Sacred Worlds is another one of my favorites.

All of Metallica’s S&M album is solid fucking gold, but the best (imo) song from it almost never gets the spotlight, so it’s tragically easy to miss: No Leaf Clover

Avenged Sevenfold isn’t symphonic metal, but they’ve got two songs that at least dip their toes in that water: The Stage, and Little Piece of Heaven.

Epica

If you know Epica you’re probably already familiar with Nightwish, but in case your not… well, Nightwish. Most of their music is more similar to Omega than the one I’m about to link, but this specific song is just so fucking weird, I love it: Scaretale. Definitely check out their other songs too!

Essence of Datum / Naxayras

You’d probably like Pelican - kind of ambient rock. Or Russian Circles, which is similar but more mellow.

Mohamed Shawky

Not familiar, and the only Mohamed Shawky’s I’m seeing on YouTube are a physicist and an athlete. Judging entirely by the name, I’m guessing it’s got some Arabic vibes, and the best I’ve got there is the first one I linked, Wheel of Time, mostly because of the intro… Antti Martikainen has some Arabic sounding songs - that dude’s music is ALL over the place… I recall one being a kind of Arabic metal that I could have SWORN was called “Ancient Worlds” but searching that isn’t coming up with anything. He does have Arabic hybrid sci-fi music lol. Skim that dude’s channel, and brace for a musical roller coaster.

Rivers of Nihil

Hmm, maybe try Lorna Shore, especially Pain Remains. Lorna Shore is WAY too throaty-howler-monkey-shit for me personally, but fortunately they’ve got instrumental versions too.

blaue_Fledermaus , 8 hours ago

• little big adventure 2
• sim city 4
• starbound

Captnkrk69 , 8 hours ago

If you like metal… the tracks from 2004 Painkiller rocks.

all-knight-party , 8 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

Persona 3/4/5 (not all tracks are instrumentals, but most of them are and they are straight bangers)

Katana Zero
Danganronpa 1, 2, V3
Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 (all I can vouch for, but I hear the later games still have banging soundtracks)
Crosscode
Kingdom Hearts 1/2
Nier Automata
Minecraft
Donkey Kong Country 1/2
VA-11 HALL-A
Catherine Full Body
Deadbolt
Risk of Rain 1/2

Some of these you'd have to sift through, like Silent Hill is one part industrial creepy noise, and one part absolutely incredible hip hop and rock

Omegamanthethird , 3 hours ago

Since you already mentioned Final Fantasy (I assume that’s FF).

Halo 2
Nier:Automata
Undertale

callouscomic , 4 hours ago

Lots of Elder Scrolls and Elder Scrolls Online

Lots of Metal Gear stuff

Kingdoms of Amalur

Shadow of the Colossus

Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (badass 80s music)

Assassins Creed 3

ExtraMedicated , 4 hours ago

I liked the music in La-Mulana 1&2.

cabron_offsets , 4 hours ago

Commenting here because I tend to enjoy game soundtracks and want to look these up.

erie09 , 4 hours ago

Shadow of the Colossus OST youtu.be/57jIlw6HmCE?si=Lf3pXvLo7vT1DAeB

DaleGribble88 , 4 hours ago

Rise of Nations soundtrack is fantastic sandis the only “video game music” that I semi-regularly listen to.

Especially check out “High Strung” that would always play in multiplayer whenever a player dropped a nuke on another player.

youtube.com/playlist?list=PL829D6AF91A5C465E&si=y…

Tearcell , 5 hours ago

@MacedWindow Diablo 2 for sure

BigDaddySlim , 5 hours ago

Any of Marty O’Donnell’s Halo soundtracks