Vigil from Mass Effect. I think it’s the song playing when you first get the galaxy map, and playing that game and seeing the world open up while hearing that song really put me in a great mood.
There are a lot of good songs, but today I will pick Megalovania by Toby Fox. https://youtu.be/KK3KXAECte4
The perfect synchronicity of the Metal song and the player character pumping their shotgun at the end of the opening sequence of DOOM (2016) when they exit the elevator towards the surface of Mars.
The soundtrack for that game was absolutely incredible. I still listen to the BFG song on Spotify all the time lol
I remember most people thought that the Metallica tune they used for the original doom was Master of Puppets but the devs said it was No Remorse, heavily tweaked of course.
Tristram from Diablo
Guile’s theme from Street Fighter 2
they still play in my head regularly, 30 or so years later
To Zanarkand just does something…
Mick Gordon and Tex Perkins track from Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, called The Partisan. Fantastic end piece to the game.
https://mickgordon.bandcamp.com/album/the-partisan-feat-tex-perkins
Later found out it’s steeped in history as it’s a cover/adaptation of a 1943 anti-fascist song written in French by Russian-born Anna Marly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Marly
I have a Mick Gordon from Doom in my regular playlist
Cassette Beasts OST is amazing. “Wherever we are now” is probably my favorite.
Hard to pick just 1, so here’s a list of ones I deem notable from a few different games:
- 14.3 Billion Years — Outer Wilds
- Undertale — Undertale
- City of Tears — Hollow Knight
- Under the Eye of Kibenya — Heaven’s Vault
- No publicly available version of this one; but the game and soundtrack are good, so they’re worth a buy
- Private Room — Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location
- Tiny’s Theme — Mario Golf
- Cleopactra — Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness
- Dive Into the Mellow — Sonic Adventure 2
- Fathomless Tomb — Deep Rock Galactic
- They Might As Well Be Dead — Risk of Rain 2
- xX_TF_CNS_FloatingBits_Mp3_Xx (Floating Bits) — The Finals
Red Alert Hell March
I have a new obsession: Sea of Stars
Chemical Plant Zone, Sonic 2.
There were some bangers in that game, Mystic Cave and Metropolis had killer tracks also
A lot of good music on the Genesis Sega games.
The entire Megaman 2 soundtrack.
Double Dragon
Punch Out
Ocarina of time - lost woods
MegaMan X soundtrack
MegaMan 3 was the one that did it for me.
Super Glove Ball on NES had a banger soundtrack as well
I’m partial to the original Dwarf Fortress music
A classic! I do also love Simon Swerwer’s work on the official steam DF OST
Easily Mythic Power from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Especially in the context in-game the track is first dropped, it’s incredible.
Some really good beats packed into the SNES.
