Feel free to post multiple suggestions for different genres. For example, atmospheric, sci-fi, adventure-like, etc.
Here are my personal favorites:
AI War / AI War 2 - Pablo Vega
Dragon Quest series - Koichi Sugiyama
Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu
Final Fantasy XI - Nobuo Uematsu and others
The Last of Us - Gustavo Santaolalla
Medal of Honor - Michael Giacchino
Offworld Trading Company - Christopher Tin
Stellaris - Andreas Waldetoft (I didn’t notice that this game was just an idle clicker for a long time because the music was so damn good)
Tidalis - Pablo Vega (especially the piano versions)
A Valley Without Wind - Pablo VegaStellaris is an idle clicker?
Yeah wth, are the standards for idle clickers now so high that people start calling actual games idle clickers? I don’t want it
Resident Evil Outbreak – Main Theme
Ico – You Were There
Tomb Raider – Main Theme
MGS 3 – Way to Fall (Starsailor)
MGS 4 – Love Theme
Hollow Knight – City of Tears
Grand Theft Auto III – Main Theme
Furi – You’re mine (Carpenter Brut)
Red Dead Redemption – El Club de los Cuerpos (Bill Elm and Woody Jackson)
Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec – Light Velocity (Isamu Ohira)
Commandos 2 – A Storm is Coming (Mateo Pascual)
Assassin’s Creed 2 – Ezio’s Family (Jesper Kyd)
Hitman Contracts – Main Menu Theme
Death Stranding – Death Stranding (CHVRCHES)
Mafia – Running Man Song (Latcho Drom - La Verdine)
Fallout New Vegas – Jingle Jangle Jingle
Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings – Track 1
Age of Mythology – Chocolate Outline, prostagma?
Silent Hill 2 – Promises/Theme of Laura
Tactics Ogre – Theme of Black Knight
Project Wingman – Kings (Jose Pavli)
Ace Combat 7 – Hush
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Vagrant Story – Wyvern Battle Theme
Final Fantasy Tactics – Antipyretic
Final Fantasy XII – Battle on the Big Bridge
Furi – You’re mine (Carpenter Brut)
That’s a hard banger right there. Thanks for sharing !
Super Meat Boy
Sacrifice
Crypt of the Necrodancer
Baldurs Gate 2
GTA Vice City
Uncharted for original soundtrack.
Burnout Paradise for licensed soundtrack.
I always liked the music written for the original Fable.
Sonic Mania is one I always fall back on, the tracks are fun as hell and I don’t think there’s a single one I don’t like. Shoutout to the Studiopolis act 1, Studiopolis act 2, and Press Garden act 2 tracks.
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+1 for Sonic Mania - added it to my vinyl collection a month or two back!
Risk of Rain 2 for GOAT Any supergiant game, but Transistor and Hades are a cut above
Tyrian 2000
Half Life 1 and Forsaken (1998).
Both of those CDROMs worked in normal CD players and they lived in my hifi for AGES
Valheim!
Reznor did a great job with the soundtrack for quake 1.
The Ghost of Tsushima soundtrack takes me back to the game every time
Katana Zero and Celeste both had great soundtracks. Persona 5’s soundtrack is amazing.
Cyberpunk 2077,Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, Horizon Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, Zelda Breath of the Wild, and the Metal Gear Series.