Gaming

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles' soundtrack holds a special place in my heart. Lots of really interesting instruments you don't hear in many other fantasy games.

Chrono Cross is my favorite.

Dream of the Shore Near Another World makes me tearful every time I listen to it.

Most of my favorites are already here, but one that's unfortunately overlooked is the soundtrack to Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magic Obscura. It's all this really moody, atmospheric string quartet music that just fits the game perfectly. I really recommend you give it a shot, it's really unique!

Granado Espada is a favorite classic and then there's Suikoden for the nostalgia

nobody has mentioned disco elysium? legendary soudtrack immo

The Tunic soundtrack is very good, great music for putting on while getting some work done!

Really nice suggestions here. I personally love Starbound, Fez, Xcom ...

There's this french MMO i played as a kid called Dofus and that soundtrack still hits hard when I listen. I think part of it is nostalgia but also its just so beautiful

Risk of Rain 2

Celeste's OST is really nice. Love it's high energy with the B-side tracks. In game, experiencing Reflections and it's progression throughout how it reflects it's dream that becomes more intense and nightmarish made me fall in love with Lena Raine's style. If anyone wants to hear

Hades

Absolute bangers all the way through. Along with everything else in the Supergiant lineup.

Really anything by Grant Kirkhope, Banjo Kazooie Yooka Laylee, etc, and on the Rare train, Donkey Kong Country 2 had great music.

Also love the Undertale soundtrack.

Genshin OST, especially Sumeru, Absolutely slaps

Soundtracks filled front-to-back with bangers that have stuck with me over the years:

Sonic Mayhem's Quake 2 -- and, of course, Trent Reznor's Quake. 植松 伸夫 -- Final Fantasy 7. Grant Kirkhope/Graeme Norgate's GoldenEye 64. Max Lichtenstein's Pax Imperia 2. Richard Joseph's Chaos Engine. Just about anything Mick Gordon touches. ...aaaaand just about every Mario, Metroid, Sonic, DOOM (Heretic included), Command and Conquer, Advance Wars...

I grew up with a GC and a Wii, for me it is the Metroid Prime saga and TloZ: Twilight Princess.

For me it's Stellaris, hands down, but also the Hammock album that was made for Far Cry 5 (Hammock being one of my favorite bands).

FFVIII or FFX

BLOODBORNE

Persona 3-5 and Doom 2016 win by virtue of being the only ones I listen to regularly outside of playing the games. Doom is probably at the top, the album version is just incredible.

Honorable mentions go to the entire Zelda and Mario catalog, especially LttP and Super Mario World. They're the nostalgic sounds of my childhood and stuck in my head often, I just don't go out of my way to listen to them.

I'm going to be weird and say Undertale/Deltarune; Toby Fox is really good at music imo. The fact that he brought that talent with him into Pokemon Scarlet/Violet is admirable to me.

I also really enjoy the Katamari games and Silent Hill. The Pokemon games themselves also have some bangers, ngl.

Legend of Dragoon soundtrack composed by Dennis Martin.

Bajo Kazooie soundtracks by Grant Kirkhope.

Donkey Kong soundtracks by David Wise.

Sly Cooper soundtrack (first game) by Ashif Hakik.

Ratchet and Clank soundtrack (first game) by David Bergeaud

Metroid soundtracks by Kenji Yamamoto.

All made insanely long lasting impressions where I could hear just a bit from one of the songs and instantly know what it is. Having played lots of video games, these seem to be the ones that have created the most lasting memory. They also absolutely slap as well.

The Legend of Zelda games BOTW and TOTK get mention here as well, though I don't find it as memorable. the sound design in these games is just top notch though.

Tetris definitely deserves a shoutout.

LA Noire by Simon Hale is fantastic though it's mostly just riffing off of Chinatown's soundtrack and I wouldn't say it really implants itself in the memory like the ones mentioned above.

Other honorable mentions

Vice City

Jet Set Radio – Hideki Naganuma

Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater

I see several people naturally mentioning the Minecraft OST, there are two resource packs I highly recommend if you want a more nostalgic experience.

• "Balanced Music" is a great pack on Modrinth that removed the biome specific criteria and re-balances everything so you do not keep hearing the same caves & cliffs song every 10 minutes.
• "C4Music" is another pack on Modrinth that removes the newer tracks (post Nether update if memory serves me right) and only has original music + some of the unreleased tracks.

To answer the question myself though, other than Minecraft of course I would have to say Terraria, OpenTTD, Ocarina of Time, RimWorld and Celeste among many other titles.

other than the ones you said, which are all amazing

• Celeste
• Superliminal
• like every Sonic game
• and every Final Fantasy
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Hades
• Monster Hunter World
• Portal 1 and 2
• Night in the Woods
• The Sims 3
• Dead Cells
• OneShot
• Slime Rancher
• Stardew Valley

this list rapidly evolved into just being my favorite games list 😅

For me it has to be a mix of doom 2016 the witcher 3 and chrono trigger. So many good soundtracks between them.

Divinity Original Sin 2 is my go-to.

Chrono Trigger

Eve Online

Deus Ex and Oblivion

Haven't played the game, but somehow I ended up getting Skyrim's OST years ago.

Golden Sun and Donkey Kong Country have really good tracks. The DKC water level music is my favorite, and there's a fan rendition that you can find on YouTube: Beneath the Surface by Vig. Link

Riven gives me goosebumps every time.

I haven't even played Machinarium or Samorost 3, but both of those soundtracks are masterpieces.

Okami and Katamari Damacy. I also love interactive music, some examples are Pokémon Sword/Shield, Banjo Kazooie/Toole, and Journey. If anyone has other examples please let me know.

SSX 3 solid tunes and loved how the music changed as you went doown the slopes.

Also, Mass Effect and GTA San Andreas

The Great Giana Sisters (C64) Turrican (Amiga) Super Mario Galaxy (Wii)

There's a lot of them, but Hollow Knight's OST Dark Souls III, HotlineMiami 1/2 and Momodora Reverie Under the Moonlight are my favorites.

It's Skyrim for me. Growing up I've never played any games (because GiRLs DoN't GaMe) but I've heard some of Jeremy Soul's Skyrim tracks on YouTube and was completely enchanted. Learned that it is from the game, decided to try and now I'm a gamer, lol.

Oh, and also the main theme of Dragon Age: Origins is just divine. And honorary mention to Mass Effect and Witcher music too.