Baba Yetu

The Travellers' Encore from Outer Wilds

If you like chiptunes, "the moon" from DuckTales does a great job at instilling a sense of adventure. If chiptunes aren't your thing, here's an orchestral version

Hell March

Stickerbush Symphony - Donkey Kong Country 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lndBgOrTWxo

The Only Thing They Fear Is You - Doom Eternal

The End from Return Of The Obra Dinn by Lucas Pope

The title theme from Hades

Rip and Tear from Doom 2016

Unreal Tournament Soundtrack - Foregone Destruction (Facing Worlds) Wait until the DnB kicks in. Monster Kill

"The only thing they fear is you" from Doom Eternal

Anything Hollow Knight

In particular

My Only Chance - The Toxic Avenger https://youtu.be/SeAAi7jWOl8

It's a fucking hard call though because there are a lot of great picks out there - Doom does amazing metal and Hotline Miami has a legendarily good soundtrack... but Furi takes the cake for me personally.

The Spine - Transistor OST.

There's 3 versions, though... The soundtrack version with lyrics, the game instrumental, and the humming version.

Most of the tracks in the game have at least 2 versions, music is kind of a central theme of the story.

The title song from the OG mirrors edge, which is by Solar Fields

https://open.spotify.com/track/2QBw72MiksITj0490637BN

Snow in summer

The Spine by Darren Korb and Ashley Barret, from the Transistor soundtrack. Not my kind of game honestly, I never finished it, but I keep coming back to the soundtrack ❤️

Hades - The Painful Way

and the sequel that references it: Hades II - The Silver Sisters

Propaganda, Beyond Good and Evil

Milky Way (Explore) by Ben Prunty from FTL: Faster Than Light

Anything from the Grim Fandango soundtrack.

Plok - Beach

The Cake Song

Slinger's Song - from the game Bastion

I heard this song first on this Sauerbraten race-vid, I haven't played the original Bastion game.

The theme song from Pictionary on the NES.

Halo 2 OST - Impend

If you want the version with a little more oomph, there's a remaster version. I listen to this for coding.

MORTAL KOMBAT

https://youtu.be/BxsNnUAyfd4

We All Lift Together from Warframe.

Absolute banger and perfect for wageslavery.

I wrote most of my Bachelor's thesis and parts of my Master's thesis to nothing but Watch the Skies from Skyrim on loop.

"In The Blood" from Hades

YT Link

The opening to Chrono Cross https://youtu.be/923fVDDwaHo?si=uJ6IVP9B_nH_pUo2

Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time

Distant Horizons, Skyrim

This one from Hotline Miami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNE2oCZH_4k

The Great Sea (From Legend of Zelda Windwaker) - The Marcus Hedges Trend Orchestra

https://open.spotify.com/track/1D644kNnetS59dp2wUoVMl?si=pBwszva0ST2URvBEEVrSCQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6N6jfTjyhTM3TMcLXumRBN

Main menu theme, Myth II Soulblighter

"Disco Descent" from Crypt of the Necrodancer

Batman (NES) – Streets of Desolation

Sega version is good too, just different

Planescape: Torment - Bones of the Night

My son would vote for the Witherstorm theme in Minecraft.

I like it here, from RimWorld.

Fisherman's Horizon - FFVIII

There are many wonderful renditions to choose from.

Pizza and Bowling - Silent Hill 2

The whole soundtrack is good, but:

Counterattack from Xenoblade Chronicles 2

I especially love the way it subverts the rhythm and modulates the key going into the final refrain around 3:45.

Panzer Dragoon main theme

Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.

Bonus: a Charles Cornell breakdown of the song.

I like Life is Strange 1's sound track tbh. Tony Hawk and Grand Theft Auto and Pokemon and Mario all have some excellent music too.

edit: Wow, I forgot a word, and it completely changed the meaning of my sentence lol