Patient Gamers

OST ones:

• Pizza tower
• Jet Set Radio/Future
• Doom 2016
• Psychonauts 1 and 2
• The Binding of Isaac Rebirth and DLC

With licensed music:

• Pretty much any GTA
• THPS series
• NFS Series from 2 SE up until Most Wanted 2005

final fantasy, anything thats NOT 7 simply because its played to death.

Quake 2

Guild Wars 1

So many good answers here. Not patient gaming, but Clair Obscur this year absolutely killed it with the soundtrack.

Patient games:

All Nobuo Ouematsu Final Fantasy games.

Fable

The Elder Scrolls Games

Doom 2016/eternal

Cyberpunk

Divinity Orginal Sin 2

Cuphead

skyrim might be THE greatest soundtrack of all time

fallout 1 and 2 (and new vegas as it reuses the soundtrack) are really cool and eerie. fallout 3 and 4 are good too

i quite enjoyed the soundtrack for south of midnight

also, this next one isnt an official soundtrack made for the game but a collection of good songs. but madden 10 has probably the most ludicrously stacked soundtrack ive ever heard for a sports game

All the Astro Bot games have phenomenal soundtracks, Kenneth CM Young (of MediaMolecule) is brilliant and knows how to write really catchy earworms. Really got stuck listening to Trapped in Time and Papa Tree.

I’ve seen a lot of good mentions here already but haven’t seen Nier: Automata yet. I thought the game was overrated, but there are a lot of great audio tracks

FTL, diablo II, The Sims (build music), ecco the dolphin (sega cd), hardspace shipbreaker

Ape Out really only has the one song... but it is perfectly utilized to puncuate the gameplay experience.

Shadow of the Colossus

Jetset radio

Dustforce

Scott Pilgrim vs the Wolrd the Game

River City Girls 1 and 2

Okami

Tetris Effect for me.

I think nothing top the JRPGs. My current favs would be Nier: Replicant & Nier: Automata. There's also this rather obscure game I love called Ar Tonelico in which the music is part of the story; of course that wouldn't do if the music suck.

Other than that, I love the entire soundtracks for both Cult of the Lamb as well as Stray.

Alright i'll try to go with things that has not been submitted yet.

• Ace combat 7 has consistent bangers. Also project wingman in the same style, slightly less consistent, but the best tracks are absolutely amazing (showdown and redline are in my opinion)
• I did not play Mighty Switch Force and Mighty Switch Force 2, but this game has really good tracks
• ULTRAKILL is not really out yet, but its soundtrack is already amazing
• Turrican 2 has some pretty damn good chiptune tracks
• VA-11 HALL-A which also acts as an amazing background music to work
• Tekken tag 2 / Tekken 8
• Distance (this one is probably a bit personal though)

Aaand i'll stop there otherwise this will be a way too long post

Furi

Risk of Rain 2, by Chris Chris, is such a fucking bop! I particularly recommend The raindrop that fell to the sky and The rain formerly known as purple

RoR one is good too, but not as much

Rimworld
Starsector
Project Zomboid

1. All of the Zelda games
2. All of the Ori games
3. All of the Horizon games
4. All of the Mario Galaxy games

So good.

Deus Ex (first one)

Cult of the Lamb

Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 and anything at all by Jeremy Soule (Guild Wars, Morrowind/Oblivion/Skyrim, Dungeon Siege).

Cassette Beasts

River City Girls

axiom verge 1 and 2 - good in different ways. i liked to put first on for long coding sessions, and the second expanded in interesting directions
transistor & pyre & hades - all scored by Darren Korb, but different genres. from first moment, transistor has such vibe in big part thanks to it's soundtrack, and is among my all time top games
Nier automata - won awards for it's soundtrack, clear to hear why
crypt of the necrodancer - rhythm game should have a good soundtrack, and it does
witcher 3 - the battle themes - like "silver for monsters" are unique style of action-y folk, very rare to find anything else that scratches that itch.
dusk - awesome and dynamic metal
risk of rain 1&2 - first game itself didn't click with me, but, oh man, that solo in "Monsoon" get me every time, and "Coalescence" is poignantly melancholic in a similar way to "song of the ancients" from nier - which is (a very high praise and) much more expected from nier's type of game than a "risk of rain"'s. "face of the deep" from ror2 from second is head-spinning in a good way
no man's sky - it introduced me to 65dos, for which i'm very grateful. that soundtrack is still probably my favourite album of theirs noita - low-key psychedelic, very vibes
unreal tournament 99 - and i think it's not just nostalgia, because one of my favourites - "mechanism 8" - is from the map i almost never played
"Ultrakill" - good soundtrack, and yet cyber grind tracks from guest composers are still my favourites. "The cyber grind" in particular is just exhilarating

individual tracks i overheard from games i haven't played:

old "touhou project" games - their soundtrack is full of gems, even if it's not my genre of game
system shock 2's "Med Sci 1" and "Engineering" - very nice, i want more of that and can't find
"Clair Obscur: Expedition 33"'s "Lumière" - made me wishlist the game just for having it
"Final Fantasy IX"'s "You're not alone" - very nice melody i like to whistle sometimes. considering playing it just for having it
original "Castlevania"'s "Vampire killer" rocks

/u/tal@lemmy.world is a hero for linking all the tracks in this thread.

Before games had full epic soundtracks, you still got quality "intro tracks", occasionally with a few other songs for whilst you're playing.

Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe intro music (youtube link)

From the same Atari ST/Amiga era: Chaos Engine, Frontier Elite 2, Xenon 2 Megablast, Syndicate Wars

For newer stuff with "full soundtracks", you can't beat Stellaris OST (youtube link)

I really like the Rome Total War Soundtrack by Jeff van Dyck

Ape Escape. I think Cryptic Relics is my favorite track but they're all so good. They're all drum and bass bangers.

Nier Automata

Edit: it was mentioned already but I'm keeping it

Icewind Dale

The Outer Worlds

Deus Ex

For entire OSTs: any of the FromSoft soulslikes, Lies of P, Diablo 2 + Lord of Destruction, any Monster Hunter game really (especially the ones in Pokke village, so Freedom 2 and Freedom Unite/Portable 2nd G), Hollow Knight, currently enjoying Ridge Racer's (PSP) soundtrack for working out, Deltarune and Undertale, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and Bboy the Game for some perfect-vibe licensed music...

Disco Elysium's is my current favourite OST, but the game itself might also just be current favourite game.

As for individual tracks, I like the Spanish guitar portion of "The Drive/First Contact" off the RE4 soundtrack. Back when I started out with breaking ("breakdance"), think 2008/9ish, we had a remix of that specific part of the song that would play often - I've got very fond memories of that. The song itself, its remixes and the remake versions actually are some of my favourite running music for the gym.

Here's the remix in question if anyone's interested: https://youtu.be/SMWV-3pbcLE

As for one favourite individual song from each of the aforementioned OSTs:

• Hunter's Dream (Bloodborne)
• Shadow Flower (Lies of P)
• Rogue (Diablo 2) + Lord of Destruction intro
• Pokke Village theme (MH Freedom 2/Unite/Generations (Ultimate)) and Mizutsune theme (first fought in Generations)
• Mantis Lords (Hollow Knight)
• Rotterdam Nation - Remix (Ridge Racer)
• Ruins (Undertale) and My Castle Town (Deltarune)
• I'm a Swing It by House of Pain or Ace of Spades by Motörhead (THPS3)
• Don't Sweat the Technique by Rakim or Apache by Incredible Bongo Band (Bboy the Game)

This was lots of fun to think about. I hope anyone reading can find something of value here. :)

Faster Than Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkGjEut9U4

Going through the lists everyone has posted I realized I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything from the Medal of Honor franchise posted. I only ever played Medal of Honor: Frontline because a roommate had it, but it was scored by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for the original Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor: Underground, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, and Medal of Honor: Airborne. Giacchino won awards for the first four soundtracks in the series and it was his video game work that caught J. J. Abrams’s attention and led to him scoring Alias and Lost, starting his TV and movie career.

Also, if you enjoy soundtracks, you might like StreamingSoundtracks.com. It’s been around since 2001 and features soundtracks from movies, tv shows, and video games. It’s a free streaming radio service with the playlist queued by listeners along with limits on how frequently any track can be played, so you won’t hear repeats very often. A manager at a past job played it most days. One year someone took advantage of the “No repeats” rules and played all the horror tracks throughout October so that on Halloween there were basically no horror tracks available, angering many when they realized what had happened. I found it one of the more impressively planned and executed pranks I’ve personally witnessed.

Legend of Mana, Stardew Valley, Persona 5, Danganronpa Series, Pokemon Gold,Silver,Crystal

The Bastion OST by Darren Korb is amazing and introduced me to his other music, which is also great!

Neon White has a killer soundtrack by Machine Girl. Highly recommend it for anyone into DnB (the game also isn't bad).

Braid

Journey

The game is a piece of art and the soundtrack plays a big part of it.

i'm ngl most nintendo games really got banger music. i esp love mario kart 8's soundtrack, peak fusion