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?
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
Cave noises are fire, but ambience in general is sometimes pretty bad. You’ll often hear happy/calm music while something intense is happening, and there are very few true ambient noises
One of the OGs: Diablo II.
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Hollow Knight and its sequel, Silksong, have done of the best OST in history. Though those games can be, and are, the most beautiful headache inducers around.
The Mines of Narshe music from Final Fantasy VI still comes to my mind whenever I’m wandering around someplace suitably grim.
Subnautica has some super chill music. Until you meet a leviathan, or you crash your sub…
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?)
Hyper Light Drifter’s soundtrack is a masterpiece!
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the Bloodstained series of games.
Basically anything by Michiru Yamane is going to have great cave music.
I looked this up and the music was great, but I found it too epic and/or expressive for what I was after. I guess that’s what art is about, right? I’m definitely keeping this in mind for something else, I was looking for something more mellow in this occasion. Thanks for the suggestion, I’m loving the answers so far
Look up the guild wars 1 soundtrack. Same composer I believe.
Diablo (the first one) has some of the best dungeon and game music ever made in my opinion
Noita has some nice psychadelic cave music
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 :)
No sweat friend. Glad I could help!
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.
Legend of Grimrock had a decent soundtrack IIRC.
