"Every" Game Soundtrack on Spotify - The San Symphony Project

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1	Welcome to the San Symphony Project!	5,311 Entries (Non-Unique) ...And Counting!
2	This is an incredibly stupid, personal project attempting to catalogue every single game soundtrack currently available on Spotify. Please navigate to each alphabetical page using the tabs at the bottom, where you'll find the alphabetically ordered pages contain albums arranged alphabetically (to the best of my alphabetic ability).
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4	Why Spotify? Because that's my music sub service of choice. If you wanna cross reference this spreadsheet against Apple Music and make your own catalogue, be my guest!
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6	There sure are a lot of "Various Artists" listings! What gives? I agree! This is partially on Spotify for not properly crediting artists in collaborative works, partially on the publishers for not uploading the soundtracks with the proper accreditation and metadata, and partially on me for being lazy and not doing it myself. My excuse is that logging this many OSTs already takes a lot of time and, importantly, I don't have the ability to read Japanese script.
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8	Why do this to yourself? Good question! I don't know! The only thing I can think of is that I got so sick of Spotify's absolutely abysmal search functionality getting continually worse alongside their discoverability of game soundtracks being terrible just fundamentally snapped something in my little ape brain and the only thing that could fix it was some kinda mass organisation project that also allowed me to procrastinate completing other important things in my life.
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10	O-okay... Can I help? Please dear god you can help if you want to. I'm not allowing free editing of the spreadsheet for obvious reasons but if you'd like to make a submission for a missing OST, point out an error I've made somewhere or suggest any other improvement, the best bet is to post in the resetera thread I've made for this doc which can be found here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/spotifys-gaming-ost-discoverability-sucks-so-i-compiled-as-many-as-i-could-in-a-single-megadoc.486943/.	[Feel free to DM me on Resetera as well, if you'd prefer to do it that way]
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12	What's the criteria? What are you accepting/not accepting? Ideally I'm trying to log ORIGINAL Soundtracks only. No covers, no tributes, no live orchestrations - even if they're official compositions/releases by the original composer of that game. I may make a separate page for this later but, buddy, this self-imposed task is already gargantuan enough. I'm actually thankful I don't have to worry about Nintendo OSTs right now.
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14	Wow, there sure are a lot of soundtracks, huh? What's the weirdest you've found so far? Honestly probably either Urbz: Sims in the City or Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2, simply for making me aware that they made a Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2
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16	What are your go-to picks for best gaming OSTs available on Spotify? Oh boy. I'll list my personal picks for albums I think are overhelmingly enjoyable and cohsive experiences that even non-gamers could enjoy in the below cells so it's actually legible.		Personal Recommendations Below
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18	Silent Hill 2 - Akira Yamaoka: Just hauntingly brilliant and coherent for me in a way the other SH albums aren't. Not to say the other Silent Hill OSTs are bad, 3 and 4 are both equally great. But Silent Hill 2's feels like a concept album written on its own terms, full in its completeness, and the game it accompanies just happens to be a survival horror classic at the same time. You could remove this OST from the game entirely and still think it was a masterpiece.		Neon White Soundtrack Part 1 "The Wicked Heart" - Machine Girl: GOTY 2022 also launched with what is likely my album of the year 2022. The second I saw the Machine Girl logo flash up at the end of this game's reveal during a Nintendo Direct I knew we were going to be in for a great one. One of the yoinkiest if not sploinkiest gaming soundtracks of all time. If you haven't listened to this yet, this is your opportunity, and if you still don't I will be silently judging you. Go listen to Part 2 as well, while you're at it.
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20	Bastion Original Soundtrack - Darren Korb: Supergiant's stellar debut came out swinging in the audio department. Tonally perfect for the adventure of The Kid in a rustic post apocalypse. Incredible repeated motifs, charmingly warm at points and bitingly cold at others. The layering and fusion of two distinct vocal tracks is such a simple trick for Korb to pull off, but it's done with such aplomb that I got chills the first time I heard it, and every time since. Check out all of Korb's work with Supergiant Games, honestly, you can't go wrong.		Hades: Original Soundtrack - Darren Korb: Okay, yes I just liked the idea of putting these two side by side but the Hades OST truly is that good. Possibly the opus of Korb's work within the world of gaming OSTs so far. So many brilliant, memorable and catchy motifs layered throughout the tracks, that are later reprised or revitalised with a sudden tonal shift. The shifts never feel alien, but perfectly balance the game's moment to moment exploration and the way your escape often suddenly gets hits with a fraught and tense moment where you may just lose everything. Vocal work by Darren and Ashley Barrett is at some of it's finest here. Darren's falsetto is iconic, and the duets from the pair are timeless.
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22	Final Fantasy VII - Nobuo Uematsu: Not much to say about this one. It's not even my favourite FF game, but the soundtrack is just undeniably GOATed. Definitely stretching the definition of cohesive here by picking something lasting 4:15:00 in totality, but the quality of this soundtrack is so overwhelmingly strong that I'll trust you can find where the skip button is for tracks you aren't enjoying. I think Tim Rogers once described this soundtrack as (or paraphrased to effect of) something forged deep in the crucibles of the PS1's bowels, something that could only exist at that moment in time, as the product of the PS1's sound capabilities. If anyone wants to correct that quote somehow, be my guest, but I think my butchered misremembering is probably about as funny and true. Also, listen to the OSTs for Final Fantasy 4, 6 and 9. FF4 has maybe my personal favourite of the 16-bit OSTs for overall consistent quality of composition and listenability. FF6 does incredible things that stretch the sound capabilities of the SNES to its limit, including an 11 minute long chiptune rock opera epic that still stands as one of the best compositions in gaming music to this day for its sheer audacity of being that bold AND that well executed. FF9 possesses maybe the most relaxing OST of any of the mainline FF games - for me the quality is a little inconsistent in places, but it's still an incredible work from Uematsu.		SHADOWBRINGERS: FINAL FANTASY XIV Original Soundtrack - Masayoshi Soken: This basically stands in for all of Soken's incredible work on FF14. Incredible reinterpretations of Uematsu's classic FF pieces aside, Soken's work stands alone as supporting such a fantastic MMO and entry in the longrunning series by its own merits. From Heavensward's grand sweeping fantasy score, to Stormblood's traditional Japanese instrumentation, through to the rock ballads in Shadowbringers and beyond. These soundtracks helped make FF14 as special as it is. Shadowbringers stands out as a highlight, and not only because of it both being written during's Soken's fight with cancer and the fact it leans heavily on motifs from FF3 throughout (a personal favourite entry). This feels like the moment Soken hit his stride and went in with confidence, giving his all and producing the MMO's best music yet. Please no Endwalker spoilers, I only just got there. LA HE.
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24	Persona 5 Original Sountrack - Shoji Meguro & Others: An album that simply oozes style, but then again I have a fondness for disco, soul and funk vibes thanks to the music I was exposed to in my formative years. Other people might prefer the J-Rock inspired flair of Persona 4's soundscape or the darker electronic and hip-hop offerings of Persona 3, but P5's OST just feels like a more complete and consistent package for me. Unfortunately it losts some of that cohesiveness by including the jingles meant to evoke classic 8-bit era games, and one of the tracks on the Spotify upload simply doesn't work. That said, if you're a fan of high pitched squealing sounds that last less than 1 second, definitely check out the track "A Woman - another version"		NEO: The World Ends with You - Original Soundtrack - Takeharu Ishimoto: 13 years for a sequel and it was firing on all cylinders except for Square Enix's marketing department. It's such a shame this game was sent out to die because it's a rarity - an impossibly good sequel that game over a decade later. The tonal shift from the J-Pop and Rock of the first game to NEO's evolution into Nu Metal, Emo rock and House was seamless. Ishimoto and crew outdid themselves and made a game that felt as aurally distinct as the original without just riding its coattails.
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26	Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Original Soundtrack - Masafumi Takada: - I was convinced this series wouldn't be for me right up until the point I played it in 2019 and unceasingly chugged it down until there was nothing left. Except Ultra Despair Girls, I ain't playing that. I think the soundtracks for later entries into the series are too derivative of the first game, but the first game's soundtrack is such a non-stop tour de force that it doesn't matter too much either way.		Doom (Original Game Soundtrack) - Mick Gordon: The falling out between Mick and Bethesda all but guarantees we will not get the Eternal OST on Spotify any time soon. Thankfully, what we do have from Mick in the 2016 OST is an all-timer. This is how you reboot something as iconic and industry defining as DOOM. Grinding, crunching, relentless guitars hitting notes from the depths of hell, warped into screaming banshee like pitches with technical wizardry. The album you put on when you're in a bad mood and the world needs to know it. The album you put on when you need to get shit done. I would be surprised if any metal track tops BFG Division for me for a LONG time.
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28	FEZ - Disasterpeace: Hauntingly mellow, and at times frighteningly intense. Perfect music for mindbending puzzles along with the retro styled pixel visuals that still stand out as being particularly stunning. Disasterpeace has gone on to bigger and better things, but this was my first exposure to his work. From peaceful tracks designed to evoke the opening title screen of Ocarina of Time to glitchier breakdowns that provide a sense of panic as the world falls apart. An easy recommend.		Kentucky Route Zero (Original Soundtrack) - Ben Babbitt, Various Artists: A game that sadly peaked early for me, but at least I wasn't driven mad by the decade long wait for it to be finished, only picking it up after all the parts were out. As someone that studied English and American Literature andwho has an interest in Politics both at home and across the pond, this game touched on something profound and sad about a country I've never once set foot in. It's a sadness I feel echoed in small communities throughout the UK too - a lost slowness of life, a void left by the emptiness of personal connection and communities that has waned over time. These elements were anchored by Ben Babbitt's musical work - drawing on elements of religious folk music, gospel, wistfully sad synthpop and Badalamenti-evoking soundscapes. This is a soundtrack that understood the assignment. It made me like tracks in genres I typically cannot stand because they perfectly fit the mood and the message of the game.
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30	Undertale - Toby Fox: No, my online moniker is NOT taken from Sans Undertale, thanks for asking though. I avoided this game for 4 years because of what I perceived to be an overwhelmingly obnoxious heaving mass of rabid fans online. But not only did I find the experience genuinely heartwarming and understood WHY people reacted this way when I finally played it in late 2019, but it also happens to have one of the most intricately constructed and deftly crafted soundtracks in any game in the last 10 years. Maybe 20. I enjoy it that much. Maybe some of that enjoyment is wrapped up in understanding which themes relate to which characters, and why a repeated leitmotif during another characters theme makes me feel incredibly lamentacious, but even for people with no experience with the game there's some incredible chiptune work going on here.		METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE Vocal Tracks Selection - Various Artists: Confession time - I hated MGR for years based entirely on playing the demo on my old dying 360 and doing quite badly at it. I thought it was a horrible misstep for the franchise and a complete misunderstanding of why Metal Gear was good. Cut to a few years ago when I actually played the game, stopped trying to be cool or just admit I liked things that others might easily find cringeworthy and we've got one of the cheesiest and unabashedly fun game soundtracks on this front page recommendations list. It wears its early 2010s ness on its sleeves, brostep wubs and all. Impossible to listen to and not have a fun time. Elevated to another level when you're actually playing the game. Just.. don't ask for my opinions on MGS5. You won't like them.
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32	Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Gyakuten Saiban: Yomigaeru Gyakuten Original Soundtrack - Masakazu Sugimori, Akemi Kimura, Capcom Sound Team: Excellently structured music translated perfectly to chiptune, capable of providing more intense highs and moody lows for a vaguely "law" related text adventure than you'd think was possible. The quality of this OST shines through even when translated to a variety of different performance styles, like Orchestra and Jazz. Please. Listen to the Gyakuten Saiban Orchestra and Jazz albums. It's a criminal offence they're not also available on Spotify. I would bend my listing rules to include them.		Cuphead (Original Soundtrack) - Krisofer Maddigan: I'm unsure I'll ever actually be good enough to beat this, but Maddigan's work to create a big band jazz inspired soundtrack help sell the aesthetics of this game as an authentic 1920s rubber hose animation just as much as the visuals do. A fundamental part of the game nailing that feeling and would be sorely missed if taken away. I dread to think of anyone playing Cuphead on mute, or listening to something else.
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34	CHRONO TRIGGER Original Soundtrack [DS Edition] - Yasunori Mitsuda, Nobuo Uematsu, Tsuyoshi Sekito: A magnum opus of the 16-Bit era. It never hits such dizzying highs as the 11 minute rock opera from Final Fantasy 6, but it doesn't need to. Chrono Trigger's OST has nothing to prove to anyone. We are below it. Merely allowed to exist in the same time and space as it whilst it plays. A collaborative triumph we are unlikely to ever see the likes of again.		KINGDOM HEARTS -HD 2.5 ReMIX- (Original Soundtrack) - Yoko Shimomura: This is almost certainly the album recommendation I have been listening to for the longest on this list in some form or another. It was only added to Spotify in February of 2023 but I've been listening to the music of KH2 since I was old enough to know how to get those low bitrate MP3s that definitely were not trojans from Limewire on to my iPod. I was listening to the KH2 OST in Science lessons I should have been paying more attention to, during my lunch breaks, with other dorky friends who also loved the series. Yoko Shimomura is one of the industry's all time legends for musical compositions, and it pains me to know it took so long for her talent to be recognised. Thankfully, we now have this masterpiece of hers in all its high quality glory, listenable anywhere and anytime.
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