Gaming

For me it's Stellaris, hands down, but also the Hammock album that was made for Far Cry 5 (Hammock being one of my favorite bands).

Every Korean anime online game i've ever played has had an unnecessarily good soundtrack. Maplestory, Mabinogi, LaTale, S4League, GunZ: The duel, the list literally never ends.

2 for me donkey kong country and turtles in time

Legend of Heroes has many of my favorite soundtracks. Hard to pick which one is my favorite because so much of them are absolute banger

One game whose soundtrack is hard to get enough of is Deep Rock Galactic. Karl's End in particular is a favorite track of mine.

Persona 3-5 and Doom 2016 win by virtue of being the only ones I listen to regularly outside of playing the games. Doom is probably at the top, the album version is just incredible.

Honorable mentions go to the entire Zelda and Mario catalog, especially LttP and Super Mario World. They're the nostalgic sounds of my childhood and stuck in my head often, I just don't go out of my way to listen to them.

For me it's Skyrim. Streets of Whiterun, Masser, Jerral Mountains, Under an Ancient Sun, so many tracks that just instantly transport me back to the world I was immersed in throughout most of high school. They bring a sense of peace that comes from exploring in a simpler time.

It's Skyrim for me. Growing up I've never played any games (because GiRLs DoN't GaMe) but I've heard some of Jeremy Soul's Skyrim tracks on YouTube and was completely enchanted. Learned that it is from the game, decided to try and now I'm a gamer, lol.

Oh, and also the main theme of Dragon Age: Origins is just divine. And honorary mention to Mass Effect and Witcher music too.

A somewhat obscure one but the Star Renegades OST always struck me as something different and I still occasionally listen to it years later. Every piece of battle music essentially sounds like a boss theme.

Maybe because of nostalgia, but I will always come back to the Fable 1 and 2 OSTs. Especially Fable 1. Bowerstone especially I love.

Divinity Original Sin 2 is my go-to.

What an intersting question, I have a bunch I liked but these are my top picks:

• Final Fantasy Crisis Core - the soundtrack made me play with earphones
• Bastion - f.e zias theme
• Persona especially Persona 5

And I love Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom overall sound design including the OST

Riven gives me goosebumps every time.

I haven't even played Machinarium or Samorost 3, but both of those soundtracks are masterpieces.

torn between Rain World and Hyper Light Drifter

I really enjoyed the OST of the Ace Attorney games (especially the first one), Shadow of The Colossus, Kingdom Hearts, Hotel Dusk and Xenoblade Chronicles... I could go on though.

All 3 Xenoblade Chronicles games have some of my all-time favorite game music

Not sure if favourite, but Minecraft soundtrack hits different now

Primarily a mix of Old School RPGs (FFVI, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger) and some current RPGs (Persona 5, NieR: Automata)

Steven Wilson’s soundtrack to The Last Day of June is absolutely spectacular.

Final Fantasy XIV. I'm so excited to hear what Masayoshi Soken will cook up next. Other ones to mention are Guilty Gear Strive, MegaMan X and Zero series, and The World Ends With You.

Recently I've been starting my day of with the title theme from NES Pictionary to help wake me up, that track slaps way more than it has any right to. When I'm working I often put on one of the Zero Escape OSTs to help me think, especially 999 or Virtue's Last Reward. If I'm looking for bangers then Furi or GhostRunner are frequent favourites.

I'm a huge fan of Destiny 2's OSTs - the game definitely has some issues every now and then, but the art of the game (the music, the sounds, the environmental skyboxes, textures, etc) never fail me. I especially like the OSTs for each of the game's raids.

Here's my favorite song from the newest raid, "Root of Nightmares" - it ties in so well with what is actually occurring in that encounter, you get to move the planets of our solar system around! There's also an "Action" phase to the song that starts to play as you begin making the boss vulnerable, which most of the raid encounter songs tend to have.

Similarly, this song belongs to the final boss encounter for that same raid.

Then there's this song which wasn't from a raid, but one of the early expansions. It still gives me shivers when I hear the beginning of it, and then it starts to really ramp up towards the last third of the track.

Seriously, Destiny's music never ceases to amaze me! I didn't ever expect a whole season themed around pirates (though we did get a dungeon that was pirate themed before this), and got some killer music to go with it!

I see several people naturally mentioning the Minecraft OST, there are two resource packs I highly recommend if you want a more nostalgic experience.

• "Balanced Music" is a great pack on Modrinth that removed the biome specific criteria and re-balances everything so you do not keep hearing the same caves & cliffs song every 10 minutes.
• "C4Music" is another pack on Modrinth that removes the newer tracks (post Nether update if memory serves me right) and only has original music + some of the unreleased tracks.

To answer the question myself though, other than Minecraft of course I would have to say Terraria, OpenTTD, Ocarina of Time, RimWorld and Celeste among many other titles.

Big fan of ffxiv's ost. Sokens work is fantastic. Destiny 2's music as well has been fantastic, despite the game getting a little stale.

KOTOR and KOTOR 2, Mass Effect (Vigil, Leaving Earth, An End Once and For All), Hogwarts Legacy (very reminiscent of the movie scores but its own thing)

idk if this counts as an "OST" but the New Vegas soundtrack like changed my life lol. the vibes set by those choice cuts of big band/swing from the era just added a level of immersion and comfort I didn't even know existed.

I'm this thread I've missed Bastion, once the top answer of these kind of threads.

Personally I'm very fond of the germanized versions of pop music songs in Wolfenstein: a new order.

It just has to be Undertale. I constantly keep coming back to it. Deltarune is nice too but the Undertale OST is just so good.

Mega Man X for SNES is one of my favorites. In the PSP remake, the re-recorded all the original 16-bit songs with live instruments. It's amazing.

I don't think I've ever heard a megaman track I don't like

The Crow

Portal 2

Red Dead Redemption 1

World of Warcraft: Grizzly Hills OST

Journey (PS3)

Pretty much it as I am very picky with OSTs