I’ve been looking for some more instrumental music to listen to while working, besides putting FF and Stardew on loop.
Can’t go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can’t remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren’t just reprises of tracks from previous games.
Psychonauts 2. Peter McConnell only got better as the years went by.
Not a game, but you can’t go wrong with most of the Ocean’s Eleven-Thirteen soundtracks, if you like funky jazzy stuff.
Fire Emblem Fates, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and Ocarina of Time are some of my favorite Soundtracks in my library
- Octopath Travler
- Octopath Traveler II
- Winter’s End (I Am Setsuna)
- Piano Collections NieR:Automata
Second on the Octopath Traveler II music. Even my son who is 9 and plays it as well as a ton of other games has only ever commented about how the music is really good on Octopath Traveler and no others. It’s definitely the best music I have every heard for a game. There was a glitch one time where the music wasn’t playing for some reason and I realized how much the music made the game come to life, NGL, I think it brings like 99% of the emotional engagement to it.
Wh40k: Mechanicus has some amazing music.
Transistor
Portal 2, Minecraft, Half Life 2, Black Mesa, Team Fortress 2, Battle Block Theatre, Doom 2016, Doom Eternal,…
Total Annihilation
Thomas was alone OST is superb.
The persona series has some great songs
Persona 5. I have p4 tracks also.
I would suggest “quake 2”, it’s rock /metal and put me in a good mood when I work. Now if you like instrumental metal, it’s no game music, but I would suggest Aephenemer (their official instrumental playlist is on YouTube).
starfield the game is divisive to say the least, but i cant imagine anyone would talk bad about the soundtrack. inon zur’s best work so far, and the death metal songs in there are fucking awesome too
Child of light
