Feeling nostalgic and I was just listening to the Pokemon gen2 soundtrack
Patient Gamers
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Bit dated, but at the time Descent II’s Redbook sountrack was pretty good for ‘96.
Minecraft
Nier Automata
Subnautica
Bloodborne OST is the first that comes to mind for me.
- FTL Multiverse (Kix et. al.)
- Touhou
- Supergiant Games
- Blue Archive
- Minecraft
Undertale, Celeste, Katamari, Syonara Wild Hearts, Shadow of the Colossus, Metal Gear Solid, Persona 4G, Persona 5R
Hollow Knight, though I don't really listen to it outside the game.
Cyberpunk has some great songs on the radio.
Anything handled by Nobou Uematsu.
Hard pick because I listen to a game or series for a while, then another. Just today I went and listened to a lot of Sonic tracks, which I do once every few months. I guess Atlus games (SMT, Persona, EO), Metal Gear Rising, Ace Attorney, TWEWY are in the lead off the top of my head, but after a month I might give a different answer. My relaxing music playlist is mostly the official classical arrangements of Etrian Odyssey 1+2, so let's go with that.
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
mantis Lords from hollow knight
Trepang2
The Last of Us 1 & 2, all the Katamari games, Death Stranding
Gravity rush is pretty damn good. Haven't played the second one yet
Aquaria: Original Soundtrack
by Alec Holowka

Such an underrated game. RIP Alec.
Morrowind and project wingman are peak. FFXIV is fantastic with a persistent leitmotif across each entire expansion. The final endwalker boss basically wrapped up YEARS worth of story and that fight music was a medly featuring every expansion's leitmotif and holy shit I can't get over how incredible it was. Also the pandaemonium raid music. And Alexander. Seriously you can rabbit hole for HOURS on FFXIV music.
Arcanum of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
SimCity 4 ❤️
The Neverhood
Evvra bohda waaaayyyyooooo
Hommanommanommanomma na-ee hee, eee hee-ee!
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2
The Sims 2
Hyper Light Drifter and Return of the Obra Dinn for different reasons.
Pokemon USUM. If there was a looped version of the tracks, I‘d probably listen to it every day lol, it just boosts my mood. Sadly, the soundtrack (that I have) has them at 1-2 minutes.
- Rome Total War
- Anno 1602
- Stronghold
I suspect I'm driven by nostalgia and by literally hundreds of hours of repeat exposure.
I listen to Stellaris OST a lot these days. Turns out that good music to plan galactic domination is also good music to design and build software.
Don’t really play the game much anymore though. That was one of my main pandemic games.