Gaming

Some of these were already mentioned but nevertheless, amazing music is present in many great games!

Final Fantasy IX, Hollow Knight, Final Fantasy XIV, Witcher 3, Outer Wilds, The Talos Principle, Disco Elysium..

But my absolute favourite soundtrack from a game is one that I love even more than the game itself (which is absolutely fantastic, too!).

NieR: Automata - the music is just otherworldly. It fits the game but even when I am just listening to the soundtrack by itself it just makes me feel things. An absolute masterpiece.

Everything by Grant Kirkhope is great shout out to the Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie osts, also Skies of Arcadia

I still listen to Simcity 3000 and Sims 1 soundtracks a lot.

No mention of Ori and the Blind Forest and it's sequel yet? Those are incredible songs.

Other great soundtracks to me are definitely Splatoon, Katamari Damacy, the Atelier series, Polybridge's soundtracks are relaxing. Valkyrie Elysium had a great soundtrack too. All the Be'elze tracks from there are wonderfully atmospheric. Big shout outs to Okami too.

• Disco Elysium introduced me to Sea Power, who have a bunch of cool albums.
• Outer Wilds - I think of the main theme every once in a while and remember all the awesome stuff in that game.

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one's not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

Original Minecraft and Eve Online

Shadowrun for SNES had a pretty fantastic soundtrack. It did a lot with very little and really paints a picture of the setting very quickly. Another candidate from the same era is Planescape: Torment. It had this great haunting ambient sound that made Sigil feel so strange and ancient.

At the time though, if you'd asked me which game had the best soundtrack, I've had pointed to Tony Hawk, though I'm not sure if it was 1 or 2. The one with Party at Ground Zero. Found some great music of the era that way!

Ape Escape goes hard. It's not just the nostalgia.

Thomas was alone has a great soundtrack imo.

Dishonered, the drunken sailor cover goose bumbs still after all those years.