Your favorate modern game soundtracks?

[purelyconstructive]

That is a hard question, but it probably is the original Phoenotopia soundtrack. There are just so many songs off of it that I enjoy...

[debleb]

i have to nominate final fantasy xiv as having easily one of the best soundtracks in a modern game. like, hello?!    masayoshi soken is a real legend.

monster hunter games also generally have really good soundtracks. i like mizutsune’s theme a lot but there are tons of great songs through the entire series.

and finally as a bunch of other people have said, splatoon has a really fun soundtrack too. splattack is such a nice song.

[SilkSkull]

This soundtrack (and game) mean a lot to me and I just think it sounds beautiful overall!
Celeste OST

[halcybutton]

i think modern wise, rain word and limbus company are my favorites. here's two of my favorite tracks, one from each game

[Memory]

I've gotta plug Umurangi Generation here. Thor's music isn't my usual taste but the stuff he puts out consistently slaps and this game is no exception.

[Badgersaurus]

Lots of really interesting picks in here!
I think my favourite modern game soundtrack (barring mostly-licensed ones like Brutal Legend and Hi-Fi Rush) would be No Straight Roads's soundtrack. It's a platform-rhythm hybrid game where you play as a pair of loser punk-rockers who fight pop-star bosses and an evil record company. It's a great game (and what my profile pic on this forum is from, incidentally!)
The music in the game all has two tracks that switch from rock to EDM mixes depending on how well you do. Here's a personal favourite:

Edit: Oh, and I adore Splatoon's soundtrack. My favourite bands are for-sure Wet Floor, Ink Theory and the Bottom Feeders. I really dig all the Omega-3/Salmon Run stuff as well. It's like, squid Marc Bolan meets squid breakcore.

[Memory]

My overall favorite video game OST is for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Sky. Some of those songs are great, and when they play in content with the story oh man are you going to have an emotional trip. Temporal Spire is my overall favorite song in the soundtrack. My second favorite soundtrack would be for Hacknet, including the Labyrinths DLC.

[konamiesque]

hmm..... i'd say that xenoblade chronicles has my favorite music of any ongoing series right now.

though i also love the blasphemous and bloodstained: curse of the moon osts.

Skullgirls OST by a long shot

omg michiru yamane!! absolutely love her work on castlevania 

[tarraxahum]

I haven't replayed the game itself for a while, like ten years at the very least, but this particular OST has stuck with me forever

...it still counts as modern tho, right...?

This one also (although admittedly, again, the game's been out for some time), love this battle ost to bits:

...and this one...

and uuuuuh do ending credits count???

.......okay now i want to replay all my fav games at once help 

EDIT: okay since I'm emotionally wrecking myself let's complete the collection (this one would be Life is Strange)

[saule]

Paul Aubry's work on Airborne Kingdom is amazing.

[Memory]

all of the Splatoon soundtracks. Stardew Valley. Pizza Tower. Deltarune.
unsure how "modern" is being qualified in this case. there's more I could list but I'm not sure they'd count. probably not.

[starbreaker]

I've been enjoying Masayoshi Soken's work in the last two expansions for Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers and Endwalker. It's like, "Final Fantasy XIV: Come for the anime melodrama; stay for the symphonic power metal!"

[litten]

Ooh I love video game music! It's hard to narrow down but some of my favorite soundtracks (and a few selections from each) are:

• Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye, Elegy for the Rings, and Timber Hearth.
• Night in the Woods: Title, Astral Coal Town, and Mallard's Tomb.
• Psychonauts: Title and End Credits, The Milkman Conspiracy, and Sasha's Lab.
• Ultrakill: Versus, Altars of Apostasy, and Glory.
• Hypnospace Outlaw: Millennium Anthem, Sleeptime Computing, and Ready to Shave.

[CaffeinatedElf]

My favorite calm and relaxing music are from Minecraft I don't have any peculiar songs that I love the most, but I also like the upbeat adrenaline inducing music used in the Easter eggs of the classical black-ops zombies.

[Dibs]

The Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West OSTs are long and varied, and I love them a lot, especially Meridian Shining, City on the Mesa, The Good News, White Falls and Guardian of the Deep (I haven't yet listened to all of FW's OST, it's very very long).
Stephen Barton is a recurring presence on my OST playlists. He did the soundtrack for Jedi Fallen Order, which I like, and Project Cars, which is unreasonably good. And! He did Titanfall 2! (Links to, in order, the JFO main menu theme, Eau Rouge (Instrumental), and BT-7274 (Redux))
I fall in love with a lot of soundtracks so to avoid listing just 'games I have played', I'll add just one more: Portal/Portal 2 (try Self Esteem Fund and An Accent Beyond). They have different sounds but both work for their game. I used to listen to the album to go to sleep!
All good soundtracks and games which I would recommend, if a bit mainstream!