The Best Video Game Music of 2024

[Darashiva]

Just like last year, I want to start tracking the best video game music that this year has on offer. Often by the end of the year many of the best scores end up getting overlooked or forgotten because the game was released early in the year or just wasn't otherwise very good. That's what's often happened to me at least, so to keep as many of the upcoming excellent soundtracks in mind as possible, I will once again start putting them into a single, hopefully useful chart where everyone can see them and have a listen.

I will add to the list on my own, but also based on everyone else's recommendations, so if you come across a great video game soundtrack at any point during this year, let me and others know in this thread and maybe leave a link to some of your favourite tracks from that score as well. All of them will be added to the list as they come up. This way, come the end of the year and the award season, it'll be easier to check back on all of them.

Game	Composer(s)	Recommended listening
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown	Mentrix Gareth Coker	The Darkest of Souls Main Theme The Imprisoned God
Tekken 8	Yusuke Yamauchi Akitaka Tohyama Shogo Nomura Yoshihito Yano Go Shiina Shinji Hosoe	Volcanic Bomb Into the Stratosphere Fallen Destiny 1st
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth	Mitsuto Suzuki Masashi Hamauzu	Gongaga Region Materia Guardian
Helldivers 2	Wilbert Roget II	Cup of Liber-Tea Extraction Automaton Fight
Stellar Blade	Hwang Joo-eun Oliver Good Keita Inoue	Belial Xion 1 Democrawler
Persona 3: Reload	Atsushi Kitajoh Shoji Meguro Ryota Kozuka	Full Moon Full Life The Meaning of Armbands Color Your Night
Hauntii	Michael Kirby Ward	Hauntii The Mushroom Spirit Wood The Vortex
Mullet MadJack	No Info	Intro Chrome Arena Laser Disco Inferno
Selaco	Satsuma Audio	Water Treatment Prelude
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door	Yoshito Hirano Yuka Tsujiyoko	Rogueport Vivian
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree	Tsukasa Saitoh Shoi Miyazawa Tai Tomisawa Yuka Kitamura Yoshimi Kudo Soma Tanizaki	Those United in Common Cause The Twin Moon Knight
Unicorn Overlord	Mitsuhiro Kaneda Yoshimi Kudo Rikako Watanabe Richter Toki Takeda Denys Fontanarosa	Albion Stage Heir to the Dragonlands
Dragon's Dogma 2	Satoshi Hori Hana Kimura Masahiro Oki Shusaku Uchiyama	End of the Struggle (reprise) Till Death Do Us Part Bay Wayside Shrine
To the Moon Beach Episode	Kan Gao	World in a Memory
Reynatis	Yoko Shimomura	Battle Theme
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak	Hayato Sonoda Shuntaro Koguchi Yukihiro Jindo Mitsuo Singa	Unmitigated Evil
Metaphor: ReFantasio	Shoji Meguro	King of Destruction You Face Louis Guiabern Wings of Freedom
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom	Masato Ohashi Manaka Kataoka Chisaki Hosaka Reika Nakai Yuri Goto Ryotaro Yagi Azusa Kato	Hyrule Field The Still World
Fantasian Neo Dimensions	Nobuo Uematsu	Great Battle Stormy Sandseas Battle Oath Rebirth

Last edited by Darashiva - on 07 December 2024