Top 10 Video Game OSTs of All Time

Wanted to do a Top 10 List for discussion on the best video game soundtracks! Feel free to discuss/disagree, wanted to get everyone’s opinions!

1. Donkey Kong Country 2 - David Wise - Standout tracks: Stickerbush Symphony, Forest Interlude, In a Snowbound Land, Hot Head Bop, Boss Bossanova, Krook’s March, Life in the Mines, Crocodile Cacophony, K Rool Returns, Welcome to Crocodile Island, Jib Jig, Bayou Boogie, Lockjaw’s Saga.

2. Chrono Cross - Yasunori Mitsuda - Standout Tracks: Scars of Time, Garden of God, Reminisce Enduring Thoughts, Viper Manor, Sailing Another, The Girl who Stole the Stars, Dragon God, Life a Distant Promise, Radical Dreamers, Prisoners of Fate.

3. Final Fantasy VIII - Nobuo Uematsu - Standout Tracks - Balamb Garden, Liberi Fatali, Blue Fields, Don’t be Afraid, The Landing, Force your Way, The Man with the Machine Gun, Fisherman’s Horizon, The Castle, Maybe I’m a Lion, The Extreme.

4. Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu - Standout Tracks - Opening Bombing Mission, Tifa’s Theme, Fighting, Still More Fighting, Main Theme, Jenova, Great Warrior, Cid’s Theme, Aeris’ Theme, Birth of a God, One Winged Angel.

5. Persona 5 Royal - Shoji Meguro - Standout Tracks - Wake Up Get Out, Life Will Change, Beneath the Mask, Last Surprise, Price, Whims of Fate, Rivers in the Desert, Take Over, Throw your Mask Away, I Believe.

6. Final Fantasy X - Nobuo Uematsu - Standout Tracks: To Zanarkand, Tidus’ Theme, Otherworld, Besaid Island, Spira Unplugged, Movement in Green, A Fleeting Dream, Challenge, Fight with Seymour, Wandering

7. Chrono Trigger - Yasunori Mitsuda - Standout Tracks - Chrono Trigger (Main Theme), Secret of the Forest, Courage and Pride, Frog’s Theme, Kingdom Trial, Battle with Magus, Corridors of Time, Schala’s Theme, Undersea Palace, To Far Away Times.

8. Persona 3 Reload - Atsushi Kitajoh - Standout Tracks: Full Moon Full Life, Want to be Close, When the Moon’s Reaching Out, Mass Destruction, Color your Night, Master of Shadow, It’s Going Down Now, Changing Seasons, Battle Hymn of the Soul, Memories of You.

9. The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time - Koji Kondo - Standout Tracks: Title Theme, Hyrule Field, Legend of Hyrule, Zora’s Domain, Sheik’s Theme, Forest Temple, Garuda Valley, Spirit Temple, Last Battle.

10. Earthbound - Keisha Suzuki/Hirokazu Tanaka - Standout Tracks: Otherworldly Foe, Sunrise and Onett Theme, Sanctuary Guardians, Boy Meets Girl, Snowman, Winters, Kraken of the Sea, Pokey Means Business, Because I Love You, Smiles and Tears.

Honorable Mentions: Pokémon Red/Blue, Mega Man X, Kingdom Hearts 2, Silent Hill 2, Super Street Fighter 2, Final Fantasy 6, Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze, Persona 4 Golden.

I loved the OST of undertale and wanted to listen to deltarune's OST too. I haven't played deltarune and will play after 12th most probable (I'm in 11th rn). I kind of feel like listening to deltarune OST right now would ruin the OST for me later when I play the game. So has it ever happened that you listened to the OST of a game for the fun of the songs before playing the game; and after finally playing that game, now the OSTs don't hit as well as they should've?

So I just started university, and it's impossible for me to study or work properly unless I have almost purely instrumental music on. So, I'm looking for recs! I have a lot of the basic ones, obviously from game franchises I know (Ezio's family, Minecraft, Last of Us, etc) but I would really appreciate any and all input, even on the off chance I might have it on there. The chiller, the better!

I'm bored so let's do something interesting. In the picture are my top 25 favorite gaming soundtracks (and related albums). Drop yours so i have some food for thought

A few rules:

1) You can either make your chart in topsters.org (preferred and that's how i made mine) or just list them in the comments

2) You can submit either 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 osts (For people using Topsters you can adjust this in the settings by changing the width and height). Pick any of number you feel like

3) Official arrange albums and fan works are allowed as long as they remix any number of music from a game

4) Personally i would like to see your osts ranked based on pure musical merit with 0 game context or nostalgia attached. It's how i made this list and i think it provides an interesting challenge, as you're judging the soundtrack like it is any random album rather than something that's a part of a game. But you can just ignore this anyway if you can't make your list that way

PS: For anyone that wants to use Topsters: If your favorite ost doesn't have an official release you can just use the game's box art instead

Have fun!

For example Persona and Vampire Survivors music are so good for this.

I just realized an hour ago, Battle Against a True Hero sounds similar to Bloody Tears, so I listened to Bloody Tears and they're similar, but not very, and I was certain one of the boss songs followed the melody. I listened to Spider Dance and they seem to follow the same melody, so I was wondering if I'm hearing things or if they do share most of the same melody, and maybe if Spider Dance is meant to share the melody, like if it was inspired by Bloody Tears?

First time playing this one in front of an audience!

Originally posted in r/voguing. It is my hobby to learn songs by ear particularly from video games since the score is not commonly released.

I am obviously not accusing any plagia or anything, I was simply called back to the anime Monster while playing some parts of the game where I felt music had a similar sinister melancholia yet hopeful tone to it.

Do you hear it too or am I making some weird mental connection? The story of Blue Prince really doesn't have much to do with Monster otherwise, but this connection made some parts (like exploring Room 46 where I think a similar music pop up) way more gloomy that they had to.

Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_VB3bxpU_w&list=PLdR7m7PFLzQ7vArxsigd6-OYleMRJxeLm&index=36

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dNFVOjfEvw&list=PLdR7m7PFLzQ7vArxsigd6-OYleMRJxeLm&index=22

I took my fiancée's cat to the vet, and she played this playlist called "Relax My Cat" for him. It actually works to calm him down, but the songs themselves are pretty bland.

At some point I put on "Secunda" from Skyrim, and it worked just as well, maybe even better. That got me thinking: why not make a playlist of relaxing video game music instead?

The first songs that come to mind are:

"Secunda" from Skyrim

"From Past to Present," also from Skyrim

Some zelda songs

Drop your suggestions below, I'd love to build this playlist out!

Hi, I have a question about the soundtrack. I’m not sure about how anime racing game soundtracks should go. I was wanting to make an anime racing game but I’m not sure how the soundtrack would go. here is the soundtrack list I am hoping for:

Garage:

1. MitiS - Written Emotions
2. Uppermost - NIGHT TRAIN FOR SPACE
3. Sysdemes - Laminae (Feat. Syberlilly)
4. Azaleh - Endeavour
5. Side Liner & Reno Edis - Hypothesis
6. Creo - Flow
7. ASHE - Everything Was Beautiful 
8. Cloudnone - 351 
9. Sysdemes - Something Snake Related
10. Sapheirros - The Sound Of Rain
11. Garlagan - Form
12. Parallel Voices - Ashes (Extended Mix)

Free Roam:

1. Lamorn - Voicemail
2. Koraii - Time
3. Jay Cosmic & DESERT STAR - Ocean Eyes
4. Glacier - Still
5. Sysdemes - Awkward 
6. G Zoom - Shapes
7. Feed Me & Lani Daye - Proud
8. PRXZM - Let Me Fall (Half An Orange Remix)
9. Ibenji & GREENISE - Obscure
10. Shapes - Just Like You (Feat. Kate McGill)
11. Ring Noord - Another Road
12. Dawn Wall - Nomad
13. Blackmill - Future Soul

Race:

1. Infected Mushroom - Nation Of Wusses
2. MOGUAI - Mpire
3. Avis Vox - Now All Is Gone
4. The Bloody Beetroots & Junior - Albion
5. Black Tiger Sex Machine - Destroy It
6. CruciA - Shift
7. Ibenji - Fear (Saint Rider Remix)
8. Robbie Rivera - That’s A Good Meatball (Bais Haus Remix)
9. Birdtattoo - Clarity
10. Far Too Loud - Drop The Bomb (Michael White Remix)
11. Bossfight - Endgame (VIP)
12. Gemini - Robots
13. No Mana - Lost Call
14. MDK - Press Start (Dex Arson Remix)
15. David Hopperman - Libou 
16. T & Sugah & Voicians - Demons (Lexurus Remix)
17. Svidden - We Are
18. Noisia - Stigma
19. Noisia - Anomaly
20. ColBreakz - Robots
21. Fred V & Grafix - Just A Thought (Feat. Reija Lee)
22. Mekanism - Green Lights
23. Artino - Alive
24. Pucherin - Return
25. Broken Note - Venom
26. Zardonic - Children Of Tomorrow (Feat. Coppa)

This is the soundtrack, but I’m unsure whether to include more rock songs in my game. Should I include it? Or no? Depending my anime racing game has similar vibes to nfs mw 2012, ridge racer, ACR drift, and other racing games?