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?
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.
Hyper Light Drifter’s soundtrack is a masterpiece!
Give Sunless Skies a shot. Great ambience and the setting is awesome.
One of the OGs: Diablo II.
Noita has some nice psychadelic 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
I think the Donkey Kong Country OST has some good ones. Especially aquatic ambience and stickerbrush symphony.
Everybody loves aquatic ambience!
Subnautica has some super chill music. Until you meet a leviathan, or you crash your sub…
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the Bloodstained series of games.
Basically anything by Michiru Yamane is going to have great cave music.
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…
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.
Diablo (the first one) has some of the best dungeon and game music ever made in my opinion
