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The Walking Dead is an episodic graphic adventure game developed and published by Telltale Games in 2012. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it focuses on character-driven narrative and player choice rather than puzzle-solving. The story follows Lee Everett, a convicted criminal who b...

Minecraft: Volume Alpha is the first soundtrack album for the sandbox video game Minecraft, composed by Daniel Rosenfeld under his stage name C418. Released digitally in 2011, it features the ambient and minimalist music that played during the game's early development phases. Tracks like "Sweden" an...

"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Original Game Soundtrack" is the musical score for Bethesda Game Studios' 2011 action role-playing video game. The music was primarily composed by Jeremy Soule, who sought to evoke the Nordic and mountainous environments of the game's setting. Its main theme, "Dragonbo...

The NieR Gestalt & Replicant Original Soundtrack is the official musical score for the 2010 action role-playing games NieR Gestalt and NieR Replicant, developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix. The music was composed primarily by Keiichi Okabe and his studio Monaca, with vocals by Emi Evans pe...

The DOOM Original Game Soundtrack is the official score for id Software's 2016 first-person shooter DOOM, composed and produced by Australian musician Mick Gordon. The music combines heavily distorted electric guitar riffs, industrial synthesizers, and aggressive electronic percussion designed to ma...

Austin Wintory's 2012 soundtrack for Thatgamecompany's PlayStation 3 game Journey represents a landmark in video game music. The orchestral score follows a player's journey through a desert landscape, with a notable cello theme representing the protagonist. In 2013, it became the first video game sc...

Minecraft: Volume Beta is the second official soundtrack album for the sandbox video game Minecraft, released in 2013 by composer Daniel Rosenfeld, known as C418. The album expands on the game's audio with longer ambient tracks designed specifically for the game's menu screens, Creative mode, and ho...

"The Earth is Online" is a Chinese danmei web novel authored by Mo Chen Huan that blends science fiction, suspense, and romance. The narrative is structured around an apocalyptic survival game where the Earth's human population is abruptly integrated into a series of forced, lethal trials orchestrat...

Cuphead: Original Soundtrack is Kristofer Maddigan's score for Studio MDHR's 2017 run-and-gun game Cuphead. Recorded with live musicians, it draws on big band jazz, ragtime, early swing, and related styles associated with the period that inspired the game's 1930s animation aesthetic. Many tracks acc...

The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2: Original Score is a 2019 album featuring the instrumental score composed by Woody Jackson for Rockstar Games' open-world western video game. The score supports the game's narrative set in late 19th-century America and combines ambient, atmospheric textures with we...

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Original Soundtrack is a five-disc album compiling the musical score from the 2017 Nintendo video game. Composed primarily by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, and Hajime Wakai, the soundtrack breaks from traditional orchestral fantasy scores by utilizing minimal...

The Transistor Original Soundtrack is the score to the 2014 sci-fi action role-playing game developed by Supergiant Games. Composed and produced by Darren Korb, it features vocal performances by Ashley Barrett, continuing their collaboration from the studio's previous title, Bastion. The music incor...

The Bastion Original Soundtrack is the 2011 music album composed and produced by Darren Korb for the action role-playing game developed by Supergiant Games. Characterized by what Korb termed an "acoustic frontier trip-hop" style, the score blends acoustic guitar, strings, and electronic percussion t...

The Stardew Valley: Original Soundtrack is the official music album for the 2016 farming simulation role-playing game Stardew Valley. The game's creator, Eric Barone, composed and produced the entirety of the score himself. The music features primarily electronic, synthesized tracks that reflect the...

The "Super Mario Odyssey Original Soundtrack" is the official musical score for the 2017 Nintendo Switch platformer game developed by Nintendo. The album features compositions by Naoto Kubo, Shiho Fujii, and Koji Kondo, combining traditional orchestral video game music with diverse genres like jazz,...

Red Dead Redemption Original Soundtrack is the official score album for the 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar San Diego. Composers Bill Elm and Woody Jackson created the music, relying heavily on ambient, frontier-inspired soundscapes. The soundtrack utilizes a mix of traditiona...

Deltarune Chapter 1 OST is the soundtrack album for Deltarune, an independent role-playing game released by Toby Fox in 2018 as the first chapter of a follow-up to his 2015 game Undertale. Fox composed the majority of the music himself, continuing the chiptune-influenced style established in his ear...

The Pyre Original Soundtrack is the official score for the 2017 action role-playing game Pyre, developed by Supergiant Games. Composed and produced by Darren Korb, the album features vocal performances by Ashley Barrett and incorporates a blend of acoustic, electronic, and world music influences. Th...

The Abzû Original Soundtrack is a 2016 album composed by Austin Wintory for the underwater exploration video game developed by Giant Squid Studios. Diverging from traditional orchestral action scores, Wintory heavily utilized a large harp ensemble to evoke the flowing, buoyant atmosphere of an under...

"The Music of Red Dead Redemption 2: Original Soundtrack" is an official album released in 2019, featuring the vocal tracks from Rockstar Games' interactive western. The album was curated and produced by acclaimed musician Daniel Lanois, who assembled a diverse roster of artists to capture the late...

Gate of Revelation is a Chinese web novel written by the author Three Days of Slumber that falls into the LitRPG and virtual reality genres. The narrative follows characters participating in deadly, high-stakes virtual reality games where they must solve complex, interwoven puzzles to survive. It di...

The Monster Hunter: World Original Soundtrack is the official musical score for the 2018 action role-playing game developed and published by Capcom. The album features orchestral compositions designed to accompany the game's large-scale monster battles and diverse environmental zones. The music comb...

Rebuild is an indie turn-based strategy game developed by Sarah Northway and released in 2011. Set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by a zombie pandemic, the game tasks players with reclaiming and managing a ruined city. The core gameplay revolves around grid-based strategy, where players assign...

ModNation Racers is a kart racing game developed by United Front Games and San Diego Studio for PlayStation 3 and PSP. The title features user-generated content through level creation tools, mirroring the "Play, Create, Share" approach of another Sony title. It utilizes online sharing to facilitate...

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game created by Moonton. Released in 2016, it’s a free-to-play title available on iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS platforms. The game utilizes smartphone and tablet devices and incorporates character customization options through purc...

Risen 2: Dark Waters is an action role-playing game created by Piranha Bytes and published by Deep Silver. The title serves as a sequel to Risen, taking place within a fantasy setting incorporating pirates, monsters, and magical elements. It expands upon the established Risen series with its unique...

NiNoKuni is a 2019 Japanese animated fantasy film produced by OLM and directed by Yoshiyuki Momose, with music by Joe Hisaishi. The story follows two high school friends who travel between the real world and a parallel magical kingdom while trying to save someone close to them. The film is connected...