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The Dead Cells soundtrack. Especially:
You missed some great ones:
Promanade of the Condemned
Prison Rooftop
Formerly Known as Assassin
The Castle
Hand of the King
The whole soundtrack is one banger after another. The two best are Clocktower and Hand of the King.
Everything by Jeremy Soule. Especially Guild Wars 2 and Skyrim.
Crysis 2
Overwatch
A Hat In Time
Total Annihilation
Any of Marty O'Donnell's Halo soundtracks
Doesn't look like anyone listed the Ori soundtracks by Gareth Coker yet, they're amazing. Also can't go wrong with WoW if you're looking for more classic fantasy style.
Minecraft
Lots of Elder Scrolls and Elder Scrolls Online
Lots of Metal Gear stuff
Kingdoms of Amalur
Shadow of the Colossus
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (badass 80s music)
Assassins Creed 3
ATM I love the soundtracks of:
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.
The persona series has some great songs
Total Annihilation
How is there not a Single mention of celeste? It is one of the few things that can keep me focussed for hours.
Non-game instrumental artists:
I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too
My favorite soundtrack ever, of course, is that of The Secret of Monkey Island (MT-32) by Michael Land. A lot of nostalgia there.
I also very much like the soundtrack to Dune by Stephane Picq. There's an edition that combines the Adlib, Adlib Gold, and MT-32 versions which is "chef's kiss". Alternatively, I can recommend the Space Opera edition.
Strike Commander by Nenad Vugrinec on MT-32 is also great.
For chiptunes, I really liked Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 by Alex Mauer.
Or, for a real classic, Earthbound by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka.
Yes, I have a bit of a thing for retro sounds. 😁
XCOM 2 Legacy Soundtrack. Some darned good beats on there.
Civilization Beyond Earth and Battletech have marvelous soundtracks
Thomas was alone OST is superb.
Offworld Trading Company. Haven't played the game but it's a great sci-fi soundtrack by Christopher Tin of Civ IV fame.
Child of light
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).
Ultrakill has some bangers, didn't even play the game Injust stumbled on the OST.
The Witcher 3, I love BANANA TIGER.
Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.
No Man's Sky
Lost Ember
Gris
Deep Rock Galactic
Route 96
Cyberpunk 2077
So so so many more
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
Cloudpunk OST for a Blade Runner vibe.
Subnautica has a long and beautiful OST. It's been a long-time favorite of mine, and just a great instrumental jam to fuel my creativity lately. Stardew has my other favorite game soundtrack!
Portal / Portal 2
"Science Is Fun" is a great track, as are the end songs "Still Alive" and "I Want You Gone".
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.
Need for Speed 3 -- the original hot pursuit has an amazing techno and rock soundtrack.
GTA V has an awesome soundtrack (listen to the original score, not the music they licensed)
The very first Hitman and Hitman Contracts had some killer techno/electronic soundtracks.
Any of these are great to play in the background while you work.
Overall, Surviving Mars might be my favorite work soundtrack. Assorted tracks from Stellaris plus the Age of Wonders and Civilization series are also good. Something about the soundtracks in 4X games and games like them always puts me in a productive mood while not making me emotional and thus distracted like RPG soundtracks can sometimes.
Since you like FF, I'd suggest looking into Uematsu's other works as well, especially Lost Odyssey. For similar ones in the genre, there's also Yasunori Mitsuda's work in the Chrono and Xeno series.
Rise of Nations soundtrack is fantastic sandis the only "video game music" that I semi-regularly listen to.
Especially check out "High Strung" that would always play in multiplayer whenever a player dropped a nuke on another player.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL829D6AF91A5C465E&si=yvPeVG9kuDx71mZb
Commenting here because I tend to enjoy game soundtracks and want to look these up.
Stellaris. Absolutely fantastic.
I liked the music in La-Mulana 1&2.
There's a lack of Ace Combat in this thread so I'm going to single out 7's but they're all pretty good.
Also Redout has a soundtrack to spike your heartrate