I’m just a casual gamer, I absolutely loved the score in Skyrim and Oblivion but when trying to find other good ambience music for caves/ruins/dungeons I was a bit stumped. I’ve found people creating this kind of ambient soundtracks and that’s great, but I’m still curious about the videogame ones. I tried searching for that and failed.
I’m looking for eerie, natural or mysterious types of tracks, nothing too high energy. The platform or genre of the game doesn’t matter.
Have you got any good examples?
I think the Donkey Kong Country OST has some good ones. Especially aquatic ambience and stickerbrush symphony.
Everybody loves aquatic ambience!
Finally I get the time to reply here! The aquatic ambience is cool, but overall I found them too high energy for what I was after. Thanks for the suggestion though, I’m loving the replies
For really old-school, the 1980s Commodore 64 game Trolls & Tribulations. Vaguely Metroidvania-esque in a medieval/dungeon/fantasy setting, but the music is Bach/Albignioni-adjacent baroque arranged for the SID chip.
Noita has some nice psychadelic cave music
Older ones, but Might & Magic 6 through 8 had amazing soundtracks. Especially the sixth one. I sometimes listen to them as a background music when working.
I searched this and hey some of the dungeon delving tracks were really good, thanks for the suggestion!
I haven’t seen anyone recommend Minecraft but I succinctly remember the very few times I was deep delving only to be met with the soundtrack
I like the demon door music that plays in Fable. Not really sure that counts as either (tho sometimes the demon doors lead to caves or maybe dungeons?)
The Mines of Narshe music from Final Fantasy VI still comes to my mind whenever I’m wandering around someplace suitably grim.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the Bloodstained series of games.
Basically anything by Michiru Yamane is going to have great cave music.
The Witcher series also has a great fantasy soundtrack in that vein, if you don’t mind the artists allegations… Other than that the Baldurs Gate 2 Soundtrack was also pretty good iirc.
Ohhh nooo… What allegations? Can’t find anything
Damn, my bad! Confused the composers. It’s Jeremy Soule, the composer of the Elder Scrolls soundtracks, that has sexual misconduct allegations 😬
Not quite from a game that I know of, but Dawn Of Tears - Blood on Verona
Skip to 11:43, this is one of the most beautiful audio tracks I’ve ever stumbled across, super underrated…
Subnautica has some super chill music. Until you meet a leviathan, or you crash your sub…
Give Sunless Skies a shot. Great ambience and the setting is awesome.
I gave it a shot, found some nice ones there, thanks for the suggestion :)
One of the OGs: Diablo II.
I seem to remember the old RPG Fate had some decent dungeon music. I remember enjoying it and it not being repetitive when questing, although I was also like 10 so my opinion might not be that relevant.
Hyper Light Drifter’s soundtrack is a masterpiece!
