My favourite one is from Stellaris and I'd pick this one. When listening to this I dream about space flights. This OST is relaxing, nostalgic and contains a lot of themes and this variety of sounds contained in OST makes it fun to listen every single time. I really apreciate and recommend it :D.

Might and Magic VI The Mandate of Heaven.

One of the more iconic soundtracks ever composed by a profesional with his own style. It is paradigmatic.

The music transmits fantasy and nowadays is recognizable by any gamer who likes PC Games from the 90´s and 2000. Just with the Main Menu song an amazing ambience is created, and is unbeatable.
It is hard to explain but you understand. I am sure.

Hotline Miami

I still listen to it now and then.
Perfect for doing the dishes or blazing on a rampage.

Deus Ex (2000). When describing soundtracks, "ambient" is almost a dirty word; basically another way of saying "there's no real melody and it's forgettable." Composed by former tracker/demoscene musician Alexander Brandon, the Deus Ex OST takes a plasma rifle to that definition: it's utterly melodious and in no way forgettable. Soothing, ethereal, and zen-like, these tunes feels like they're straight from a future where humanity has been augmented beyond its need for simple melody. This string of irresistible earworms set the tone for cyberpunk as we know it: mashing up tense symphonic arrangements with a healthy helping of groovalicious synth. And strange as this combination may seem, the jazz meets classical meets techno soundtrack is a pitch perfect companion for the dystopian conspiracy thriller.

Well, of course I would choose the HuniePop Soundtrack.

IT'S ANIME-TIDDIES THAT YOU CAN HEAR, what more do you want?

I would pick the original Age of Wonders soundtrack, included with the game.

Not only it is amazingly good (both the game and the soundtrack are) but also brings me good memories about much more than gameplay... The game soundtrack was composed/tracked in mod format, and by the time the game was released, I was learning to use Modplug Tracker (and definitely confirming my absolute lack of musical talent). The AoW tracks are an amazing work for this type of music files and taught me a lot about composition and also about the possibilities of mod/s3m files.

In any case, an enjoyable one.

There's plenty of great OSTs available on GOG, but I gotta hand it to the Cuphead OST, I mean this whole game transports you back to the 30s -- crafted out of pure love and appreciation for traditional animation and jazz (and of course, Cab Calloway). Every single track sounds like something out of an old timey cartoon, what else could you want?

I don't want to participate in the giveaway, as I have no use for either prize, but just answer the question.

For me it would be Warcraft II, it is a soundtrack that I copied to my PC back in the day and hearing it outside of the game because I liked it that much. I think there was one or two tracks that also really stood out for me at that time. Also it is "harder" but not metal-like or such, not sure if it already could be called rock music. But it had that feeling of a march, of music that is supposed to pump you up.

For other people the reasoning would apply to Command & Conquer probabyl or similar games. But they aren't on GOG, and Warcraft 2 was the first full-price game I bought with my own (allowance) money. So as the game is on GOG now, I think it is a fair answer.

Of course, it's a soundtrack you probably would have to extract from the game files, not one available as a goodie directly. But "access the sountrack easily" wasn't part of the question.

Hotline Miami 2, because those games started my addiction to synthwave and I haven't looked back since.

None because I can remember a time when B.G.M was a section in the options menu. :P

Hello, my favourite OST is from the first Tropico game.
Sometimes, after all these years I still put some songs in my playlists.
My favourite one is "Huepa Huepa" https://youtu.be/VmtQgW1H7-s
Total immersion in the not so fictional political fiction of Tropico.
Perfect.

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Hollow Knight is a surreal experience. The whole premise, the bugs, the knight, everything is so tiny yet so powerful and meaninful in it´s own little way. I couldn´t have picked another soundtrack, but Hollow Knight´s. Truly an experience.

Wow. This is hard to choose. I have loved video game music a long time and even still have cassette tapes I made by running the audio output of my Sega Genesis through the stereo. As a musician I've always considered video game music to have a sense of artistic purity; although great music is a positive asset for a game, no one is going to buy the game just for the music so the artist is free to compose whatever fits the game. But back to the question, I finally narrowed it down to two finalists, although I already do have them both — the soundtracks from Final Liberation and Soul Bringer. As a metal-head, it is really hard not to choose Final Liberation but in the end I have to give it to Soul Bringer. That soundtrack provided the perfect atmosphere to become immersed in the game and just thinking about the game makes me think of the music and vice versa.

For me? There's so many options, so many choices that I have to limit myself for this contest down to just PC, and It would have to be "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind".

This game showed up as a game I didn't really know about and hadn't really heard of, as a kid before the true modernization of the internet, before I was old enough to worry about the complexities of an adult life, when most of my exposure to media was through entertainment geared specifically to a younger audience. At the time of its release, for me the soundtrack for this game was a masterpiece in composing, using real instruments that delivered emotions to the game perfect for every situation, from the creeping uncertainty of stepping onto an unknown world to the tension in a foe discovering you to thoughtful hope, made all the more intense with one of the earliest and biggest game worlds I had ever been exposed to. You could walk outside! At night! And listen to the music accompany you as you watch the twin moons and the stars above, fascinated by this strange and almost alien landscape. Every note and string and second of song was done with such care that even modern games in the series are still inspired by it, and yet none have managed to capture the same magic in their songs as Morrowind did for me. I still have memorized every song and every chord and every emotion they carried, and while there's been a long of music before and since, this came at the right time to be one of the most powerful experiences I had in PC gaming.

A Long Journey Home OST

It starts off with a track where you feel hope and confidence about your journey. The more the soundtrack continues the more you feel this confidence leaving your mind. Hardships and uncertainty are filling your head and it lets you imagine being right on the space ship, staring out of the window and ask yourself 'Was it the right decision?', 'Is it worth it?' and 'Will we survive?'.
But the more the music continues the more you feel helpless, powerless - you don't have a choice to question your actions. Loneliness, remorse, fear, resignation ... death - those are dominating now.

It might not leave you with happy feelings, but rather dreadful ones. But this is how I imagine how to feel on a ... long journey home.