Baba Yetu

The Travellers' Encore from Outer Wilds

Stickerbush Symphony - Donkey Kong Country 2

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

Hell March

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

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

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.

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.

Snow in summer

Plok - Beach

Propaganda, Beyond Good and Evil

Hades - The Painful Way

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

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

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

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 ❤️

The Cake Song

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

Anything from the Grim Fandango soundtrack.

We All Lift Together from Warframe.

Absolute banger and perfect for wageslavery.

"In The Blood" from Hades

YT Link

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.

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

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.

Distant Horizons, Skyrim

Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time

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.

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

MORTAL KOMBAT

https://youtu.be/BxsNnUAyfd4

"Disco Descent" from Crypt of the Necrodancer

Stickerbush Symphony from Donkey Kong Country 2.

Bonus: a Charles Cornell breakdown of the song.

Can’t believe no one has suggested this yet: Melodies of Life from Final Fantasy IX

Here's a very deep cut. Myst 4 Main Theme: https://youtu.be/yXu6ZYy2WLg

Really gets going at 1 minute in.

Here's a Super Mario first level theme, 10 hours mix. You are welcome.

Main menu theme, Myth II Soulblighter

Anything from the Loop Hero OST is awesome, but I favor Loop Hero - Loop Blues the most.

https://youtu.be/2O4C8J4bcXw

Coral Crown from Hades 2 is a bop

Planescape: Torment - Bones of the Night

My son would vote for the Witherstorm theme in Minecraft.

I like it here, from RimWorld.

Panzer Dragoon main theme