Danger from Secret of Mana / Seiken Densetsu 2. I love me some boss battle music!
NieR: Automata - Weight of the World
This is at first so beautiful, and later on it just hits so hart. And listening to the other versions, japanese where the performer even cries, and chaos (a fantasy language) (video with spoilers, sadly), this is such a great piece of art. The perfect bittersweet song.
Max Payne 2: ”Late Goodbye” by Poets of the Fall.
Gotta say, nobody knows this game and rare are thoses who even played it, can it even be considered as a video game track, but i will say the first theme from Irisu Syndrome!
https://youtu.be/GYLdQZQ0YT8 Distant Worlds II: The Prelude, if that counts as a video game track.
https://youtu.be/STPnXPSirT0 With this as continuation.
https://youtu.be/lndBgOrTWxo Otherwise Stickerbush Symphony.
Red Alert Hell March
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
To me it’s always been the B version of the original Tetris. This and most of Megaman X
Dude! My most unpopular opinion has always been that b track of tetris was more of a banger than the version! I’ve received dozens of down votes over it!
The Boomer Kuwanger theme is a banger. This might be my favorite version though.
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
Humm hard to pick, my recent top two favourites are
The Legacy of Bhaal (BG3) https://youtu.be/kbQQAg3IPM8
Lord of Frenzied Flame (Elden Ring SOTE) actually, this whole OST is insanely good. Base game slaps as well
‘Trial Of Thunder (5-3)’ from the ‘Crypt of the Necrodancer’ (Metal Soundtrack). I’m not a fan of this type of game and have never played it, but Familyjules totally shreds the original 8-bit soundtrack it had.
To Zanarkand just does something…
This is gonna be an old cut but Paperboy the arcade by Atari frickin slaps.
Chiptunes hit different
Metroid Prime OST, too many good options to pick just one.
It’s a deep cut but I used to play a ton of The Incredible Machine as a kid and the Zydeco song has always been a banger.
Higher quality remixed version from the 3DO version