Games

• Risk of Rain 2
• Hollow Knight
• Earthbound

Non-game instrumental artists:

• GoGo Penguin
• Floating Points (especially "Promises")
• Kiasmos
• Max Cooper
• Boards of Canada
• Reid Willis
• C418

The Nitronic Rush soundtrack is some really awesome techno. It feels very Tron-esque at times.

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

Everything by Jeremy Soule. Especially Guild Wars 2 and Skyrim.

Crysis 2

Overwatch

A Hat In Time

Minecraft

Doesn't look like anyone listed the Ori soundtracks by Gareth Coker yet, they're amazing. Also can't go wrong with WoW if you're looking for more classic fantasy style.

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

Edit: and The Talos Principle

Any of Marty O'Donnell's Halo soundtracks

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

- little big adventure 2
- sim city 4
- starbound

I have listened to Rimworld, Disco Elysium, and EVE Online's soundtrack while working. Though it's probably my emotional attachment to EVE more than anything lol

Diablo 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Mass Effect 1

There's a lack of Ace Combat in this thread so I'm going to single out 7's but they're all pretty good.

Also Redout has a soundtrack to spike your heartrate

Cloudpunk OST for a Blade Runner vibe.

Shenmue: Orchestral Soundtrack

Neotokyo Soundtrack

Those are my favourites but I'll also put something different here too,

Jet Set Radio Live

Spiritfarer has an excellent soundtrack, which is utterly wasted on such a mediocre game.

As an added bonus, some of the tracks on the OST are longer than you'll ever experience in game because they cut them short for some reason.

Civilization Beyond Earth and Battletech have marvelous soundtracks

I know it's a little obscure, but if you like Kamen Rider and ancient games, the music from this game is awesome

Stellaris. Absolutely fantastic.

Loop Hero

The Forest

Strafe

Kingdom: Classic

I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too

@MacedWindow Diablo 2 for sure

Can't go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can't remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren't just reprises of tracks from previous games.

Overall, Surviving Mars might be my favorite work soundtrack. Assorted tracks from Stellaris plus the Age of Wonders and Civilization series are also good. Something about the soundtracks in 4X games and games like them always puts me in a productive mood while not making me emotional and thus distracted like RPG soundtracks can sometimes.

Since you like FF, I'd suggest looking into Uematsu's other works as well, especially Lost Odyssey. For similar ones in the genre, there's also Yasunori Mitsuda's work in the Chrono and Xeno series.

Portal / Portal 2

"Science Is Fun" is a great track, as are the end songs "Still Alive" and "I Want You Gone".

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.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL829D6AF91A5C465E&si=yvPeVG9kuDx71mZb

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

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

The Battlefield V soundtrack is pretty great, in my opinion.

Tropico 3

No-one has suggested Baldur's Gate 3?