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.
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
Everybody loves aquatic ambience!
The Mines of Narshe music from Final Fantasy VI still comes to my mind whenever I’m wandering around someplace suitably grim.
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 approve! Thanks
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 Witcher series also has a great fantasy soundtrack in that vein
, if you don’t mind the artists allegations…(got confused, it’s actually The Elder Scrolls soundtracks composer, Jeremy Soule, with the sexual misconduct allegations)Other than that the Baldurs Gate 2 Soundtrack was also pretty good iirc.
I haven’t played either game and both are on my list. I searched the witcher soundtrack and I think it’s really good, I was impressed. But I found the cave/dungeon/crypt music a bit too intense for what I was after. Great suggestion though
I haven’t searched BG2… I have hopes of playing the game soon.
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 😬
insert sigh of relief
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
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
Hyper Light Drifter’s soundtrack is a masterpiece!
World of warcraft.
Subnautica has some super chill music. Until you meet a leviathan, or you crash your sub…
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
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.
