The Best Video Game Music of 2026

[Darashiva]

Keeping this particular tradition alive, just like I've done the last few years, I am going to start keeping track of this year's best video game soundtracks in this thread. It's often very easy to forget or simply overlook some of the year's best video game scores when the award season comes along at the end of the year, especially if the game in question was released very early in the year. It's definitely happened to me in the past.

As such, in order for that not to happen at least as much, I will put together a single, hopefully handy chart that lists as many of the best soundtracks of 2026 as possible in an easily readable form that also contains links to songs from each soundtrack, so people can have a listen for themselves.

I will naturally add to the list on my own whenever I come across video game soundtracks that I think deserve to be heard, but I would also like for everyone else to leave their suggestions in this thread as well, with links to some music tracks from the games if possible. I will collect them all into the list throughout the year as well. The only limitation is that the game has to be released in 2026 and obviously be a new score, so remakes don't count unless the score is entirely or at least in large part original new music. Naturally soundtracks that consist entirely of licenced music are also out. All suggestions are appreciated.

Game	Composer(s)	Links to songs
Code Vein 2	Go Shiina	Main Theme The Malpracticer Ashes to Light The Sightless Seer
Saros	Sam Slater	Shepherd Sun Is Forever
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Beyond the Horizon	Hayato Sonoda  Shuntaro Koguchi  Takahiro Unisuga  Yukihiro Jindo  Mitsuo Singa	The Height of Majesty And Then, into Space...
Marathon	Ryan Lott	Somewhere in the Heavens Time Leach
Cairn	Martin Stig Andersen  Gildaa  The Toxic Avenger	Only the Mountain Rise Part of a Whole
Mina the Hollower	Jake Kaufman  Yuzo Koshiro	A Sinking Feeling Horrific Voyage
The Adventures of Elliot: Millennium Tales	Yuto Moritani  Tomohiro Nakamachi	To Claim a Better Future Myths Once on the Wing Be Not a Prisoner of Power
Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy	Olivier Deriviere	The Land The Fight of The Braves Patera
People of Note	Big Giant Circles	One-Stringed Angel Power Chord Title Suite
007 First Light	The Flight  Lana Del Rey  David Arnold	First Light Earn the Number A Game of Chess
DELTARUNE Chapter 5	Toby Fox	Flower Man Garden of Hopes and Dreams
Age of Empires 2: The Viking Sagas Expansion		Title Theme
Pokémon Pokopia	Hiromu Akaba Jieun Kim	Dream Island (Eevee Doll) Dream Island (Clefairy & Arcanine Doll)
Pokémon Champions	Minako Adachi Go Ichinose	VGC Master Finals Battle Music
Doom: The Dark Ages Revelations Expansion	Finishing Move Inc.	Until It Is Done
Vampire Crawlers	Yoko Shimomura Daniele Zandara Filippo Vicarelli Michael Coviello	Il Cuor non si Spaura

Last edited by Darashiva - on 13 September 2026