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The Maxis Sim City game has a great OST from Chris Tilton. Quite partial to Riven and Hotline Miami too.
Honourable mention for Bastion too. And sometime I like the This War of Mine acoustic guitar stuff.
Every Korean anime online game i've ever played has had an unnecessarily good soundtrack. Maplestory, Mabinogi, LaTale, S4League, GunZ: The duel, the list literally never ends.
What an intersting question, I have a bunch I liked but these are my top picks:
- Final Fantasy Crisis Core - the soundtrack made me play with earphones
- Bastion - f.e zias theme
- Persona especially Persona 5
And I love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom overall sound design including the OST
Primarily a mix of Old School RPGs (FFVI, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger) and some current RPGs (Persona 5, NieR: Automata)
Definitely the Deadbolt Soundtrack by Chris Christodoulou. I can listen to it pretty much every day and it really makes the game much better.
Hotline Miami - When I need to work out like hell. Stardew valley - When I feel like chilling out. HOMM III - When I pretend I'm on am epic quest while commuting.
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.
Legend of Heroes has many of my favorite soundtracks. Hard to pick which one is my favorite because so much of them are absolute banger
torn between Rain World and Hyper Light Drifter
What immediately comes to mind are Final Fantasy IV and Castlevania Symphony of the Night.
Maybe because of nostalgia, but I will always come back to the Fable 1 and 2 OSTs. Especially Fable 1. Bowerstone especially I love.
I really enjoyed the OST of the Ace Attorney games (especially the first one), Shadow of The Colossus, Kingdom Hearts, Hotel Dusk and Xenoblade Chronicles... I could go on though.
I looked over the whole list and noticed it's lacking one Rise of the Triad 2012 and Distance.
I would mention Rez and DJ Max, but it feels a little silly to mention Music based games for good OSTs.
And apparently I need to go listen to the OSTs for rain world and journey. They got multiple recommendations on here.
Fire emblem radiant dawn is the pinnacle of human achievement and that includes its fucking awesome soundtrack
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus
I'm a huge fan of Destiny 2's OSTs - the game definitely has some issues every now and then, but the art of the game (the music, the sounds, the environmental skyboxes, textures, etc) never fail me. I especially like the OSTs for each of the game's raids.
Here's my favorite song from the newest raid, "Root of Nightmares" - it ties in so well with what is actually occurring in that encounter, you get to move the planets of our solar system around! There's also an "Action" phase to the song that starts to play as you begin making the boss vulnerable, which most of the raid encounter songs tend to have.
Similarly, this song belongs to the final boss encounter for that same raid.
Then there's this song which wasn't from a raid, but one of the early expansions. It still gives me shivers when I hear the beginning of it, and then it starts to really ramp up towards the last third of the track.
Seriously, Destiny's music never ceases to amaze me! I didn't ever expect a whole season themed around pirates (though we did get a dungeon that was pirate themed before this), and got some killer music to go with it!
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
KOTOR and KOTOR 2, Mass Effect (Vigil, Leaving Earth, An End Once and For All), Hogwarts Legacy (very reminiscent of the movie scores but its own thing)
Final Fantasy VII (all of them), Kingdom Hearts (all of them), Celeste and Toy Story 2 on the PS1 immediately come to mind.
Edit: Oh my god, how could I forget all of the personas, especially 3.
Shocked and appalled at the lack of Resident Evil/BIOHAZARD representation.
The survival horror classics of the 90s are simply unmatched. One of my absolute favorites is the OG RE2's Marshalling Yard, both halves.
Portal 2
Red Dead Redemption 1
World of Warcraft: Grizzly Hills OST
Journey (PS3)
Pretty much it as I am very picky with OSTs
Journey's OST is amazing. The game had no dialogue, no text but the OST is telling the story as we others through the game.
I haven't play the game for years but I'm still listening to the OST regularly.
I don't think I've ever heard a megaman track I don't like
Heh, just a few on the go: Witcher 3 Cyberpunk 2077 Divinity: Original Sin 2 ("Sing for me" 🥰) Battlefield 1 and V Hi-Fi Rush
I love the Subnautica OST.
Guild Wars 2 for sure. It's one of the games where I never turn the music off.
Chrono Cross is my favorite.
Dream of the Shore Near Another World makes me tearful every time I listen to it.
Granado Espada is a favorite classic and then there's Suikoden 2for the nostalgia