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Mortal kombaaaaaaat

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90% of the Sonic Frontiers "Cyberspace" tracks are S tier. The best soundtrack in recent memory.

Celeste and Pokemon mystery dungeon explorers of sky

TF2

half life franchise (seriously every game has perfect and fitting soundtrack) super meat boy (both the original 2010 soundtrack composed by danny b and the 2015 soundtrack made by various artists rock. but the 2010 soundtrack is one of the most iconic soundtracks ever made in my opinion.)

Interstate 76

Beyond Good and Evil

Risk of Rain 2

Teenage mutant Ninja turtles iv: turtles in time

Definitely the best video game music is from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Stains of Time is my favorite.

Jet Set Radio Jet Set Radio Future Bombrush Cyberfunk

You just have to understand the concept of love!

Okami has a truly beautiful soundtrack, my favourites are the 'The Sun Rises' and The Eight Dog Warriors Theme'. Also Calamari Inkantation from Splatoon is fantastic.

Def hollow knight, I think it captures the essence of a long decaying kingdom perfectly.

Personally, Quake (1996). I remember playing it as a teen and actually feeling my heart rate increase with the music. It was the first game that the music really immersed me into the game.

Honorable mention, The Housebuilding Song from RDR2. Just a perfect way to lighten the mood after such a hard hitting chapter.

Some great ones:

Gyruss (arcade)

Bubble Bobble (arcade)

WipeOut 2097(XL) (psx - probably the best example of songs that compliment the gameplay)

Afterburner II (arcade - just one specific track called City 202, at time 15:34)

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720 ( arcade - blistering)

Rolling Thunder ( arcade - max funky )

I’ll add two of my favourites that haven’t been mentioned yet - Metroid Prime is my all time favourite and Horizon: Zero Dawn and Forbidden West which I’ve been listening to a ton late lately

Right now I'm going to have to go with a tie between Brok and Graff from Brok the Investigator and the legacy soundtrack piece After The Flames by Josh Woodward from SuperTuxKart.

Skyrim was pretty epic… even the “wandering around” music was perfect.

But my #1 is Still Alive (closing theme song to Portal).

For me definitively the soundtrack of Boneworks (which is also the best VR game I know). Especially its main theme ("Bone Theme") and "Who am I"

Some more awesome OSTs in no particular order: Minecraft, Banjo-Kazooie / Banjo Tooie, Witcher 3, Risk of Rain 2

Wingspan. I have the Vinyl OST.

Monument Valley is quite nice too.

I still listen to the NSFU2 soundtrack today when I feel the need for a bit of hard hitting sound, with some variety.

I'm going to go for a bit of a deeper cut and say Mad Rat Dead. They took a genre which relies so heavily on the strength of its music (rhythm platformer), and produced a soundtrack where literally every song is a banger, and produced some great emotional moments as well--the transition from Cottage House to Kind of Hope and Neuchatel still makes me choke up just thinking about it.

I'm a big fan of the Offworld Trading Company OST.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mKUh4ny0EVAbJNHR9Bd69cS6I49VdHric

Really really obscure but I could never take this song off my head, from A Thousand Arms, psx game. Game was a goor jrpg.

Tony Hawk was a big one. The EA sports games always have some bangers that get stuck in your head. One of my favorite video game moments, though, was bombing the tobacco fields to Bomba Estereo's "Fuego", in Far Cry 6. They employed music well, throughout, but that moment was really enveloping.

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Underwater theme from donkey Kong country

Haven't seen it mentioned, but, Spiritfarer