Gaming

Just finished playing through Cassette Beasts and the music absolutely slaps.

Diablo IV has a killer soundtrack.

World of Warcraft, Undertale, Stardew Valley, Sonic Mania, Halo, Hollow Knight

Nintendo is cheating

The works of Frank Klepacki in the Command & Conquer series. Banger after banger.

Max Payne 3: Specifically this part

Cyberpunk 2077 has pretty damn good music with a large variety of styles. I love that they have almost exclusively artists Ive never heard of and whose great music Ive discovered that way.

Ultima VIII also had really good music, so perfectly eerie for this bromen world. From the same artist also Wing Commander: Privateer.

Tyrian had a great soundtrack that sounded really oldschool 8 bitty and perfectly supported, nay made the athmosphere of the game.

Dune though, that has to be one if the best. What that artist produced using just the measley OPL3 FM synthesizers of the first soundcards? Absolutely incredible.

The Last of Us is definitely the one soundtrack I listen to the most.

Honourable mentions: Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption 2, Far Cry 5, Heavy Rain.

Super Mario Galaxy

Perhaps some lesser known soundtracks would be those composed for the Samorost games by Floex. They're all fantastic, weird, and minimal but organic sounding. I love them a lot.

silent hill and no more heroes are both franchises with amazing soundtracks.

Chiming in with the Professor Layton games on DS. It's a whole vibe, sort of jazzy and woody and folky. Specially love the live versions

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAO5Rhuesqh_AF94WPJyjwhlmDRRG-ybk

I love the Final Fantasy theme, in all its incarnations. But given how much I've played X4 Foundations, the original main menu music has really taken hold in my brain. And more recently, the Kingdom End DLC main menu theme.

Ghost of Tsushima has a very great soundtrack.

I also really appreciate all of the sea shanties in the various Assassin's Creed entries, but especially Black Flag

My favorite game music comes from A Dance of Fire and Ice, although it may seem obvious that a rhythm game would have to have good music. Divine Intervention is one of the highlights for me.

Descent II OST

Frontier: Elite 2 main theme by David Lowe, Amiga version. It may just be my memories from the game, but that track never fails to pick me up.

Crusader: No Remorse, the entire OST. Industrial meets 90s midi techno.

Ascendancy, OST by Nenad Vugrinec. Awesome ambient sounds.

and the Mass Effect OST.

The OST from Persona 5, easily my most listened to soundtrack.

Snake Eater by Cynthia Harrell, from the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater OST

Darksiders II has a phenomenal OST. I still listen to that regularly.
That being said the Burnout 3 music was great but obviously not an OST

Maximum Anarchy's soundtrack

Hard to pick just a few tracks, but some of my favorite original soundtracks are:

Nier Gestalt
Persona 5
The Witcher 3
Stellaris

For licensed ones, I particularly like Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Life is Strange: Before the Storm.

I regularly listen to the Subnautica OST while working.

Tbh any remix track from rythm heaven. Yesterday Rythm Heaven Reanimated (a fanimation) popped up on my yt feed and I cried listening to (I'm also unclear as to why. Some music just does that to me when I really like it)

The Messenger has amazing music harkening back to the 8 and 16bit stuff from the MegaMan games. Underrated game in general too.

Ori and the Blind Forest + Will of the Wisps, hands down

Edit: behind the scenes soundtrack

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has such a great OST

Xenogears and Chrono Trigger soundtracks, a lot of that is how they evoke good memories of playing the games long ago.

I'm currently hooked on the Bomberman 64 soundtrack again. That intro cutscene music and the world select still please my eardrums!

The Xenoblade series has such great OSTs in general. If I have to pick just one track it's probably Engage the Enemy

The only game soundtrack I ever recall make a point of listening to is from Faster Than Light, it's some really good ambient music.

Currently loving music from Honkai Impact. Gacha game, I know, but man the music there are such bangers.

Music from the Fallout series made me love and appreciate music from the old days.

I also still occasionally listen to Red Alert 2 OST, those are still dope af.

The Chrono Cross soundtrack is just beautiful. I particularly like the opening song "Scars left by time"

Subwoofer Lulldlaby from Minecraft, Basically all of the Alpha album Minecraft music