ResetEra Game Soundtracks of the Year 2019 - RESULTS

[Grexeno]

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RESULTS

1. Fire Emblem: Three Houses - 248 points, 32 votes

Composers: Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh

Blue Skies and a Battle (Rain)
Shambhala (Area 17 Redux) (Rain)
Fodlan Winds (Rain)

It's very rare a Fire Emblem game doesn't have a series of banging map themes and by rare, I mean it has never happened. Not once. Three Houses carries on the winning streak with a consistent stream of player phase battle themes up there with the series' best. Tearing Through Heaven and Fodlan Winds back the game's foreboding first half while The Long Road and Chasing Daybreak set the melancholic second half. Final map themes Apex of the World and God-Shattering Star are once again among the series' greatest, something each new entry in the past decade has effortlessly managed. And of course we have Blue Skies and a Battle + its counterpart Beneath Heaven and Earth. Listing endless track names without much explanation is often tiring but in this case, there's little else to say - these tracks do all the talking.

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2. Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers - 227 points, 23 votes

Composers: Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Kenji Ito, Naoshi Mizuta, Masaharu Iwata, Hitoshi Sakimoto

Civilizations
Invincible
Landslide

FF14 is no stranger to fantastic music; there's a reason people are saying Soken should compose for FF16. Shadowbringers is perhaps his best work yet, with a wealth of moody location and story themes, plus boss battle themes for the many, many adversaries the game throws your way. I'm also partial to the jazzy tracks that accompany anything to do with the fallen Ronkan empire, and the Alexander/Omega techno stylings of a particular post-story dungeon. The overall collection is pretty easily my favorite OST of 2019, and I'm looking forward to seeing what gets added over the remaining lifetime of the expansion.

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3. Death Stranding - 211 points, 28 votes

Composers: Ludvig Forssell, Joel Corelitz

BB
Path
Bridges

While I'm a fan of the licensed tracks from Low Roar, Chvrches, etc., the original compositions move me the most. Ludvig Forssell creates a lot of evocative and mood-setting vibes with all the songs.. It's a bleak, dangerous world and those themes are woven into all the songs.

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4. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown - 200 points, 22 votes

Composers: Keiki Kobayashi, Ryo Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Kitadani, Hiroshi Okubo, Junichi Nakatsuru, Tetsukazu Nakanishi, Yusuke Kudo, Yusuke Yamauchi, Yukiko Miyagi, Nobuhide Isayama, Kohta Takahashi, Go Shiina, Kanako Kakino, KAZ Nakamura

Daredevil
Hush
Fort Grays Air Base Hangar

Equal parts epic, badass, and catchy arcade-style, nearly every track in this six disc behemoth of an OST does its job. Charge Assault sells the overwhelming scale of the sky, Long Day and Magic Spear I are examples of tracks meant to make the player feel awesome, and 444th Air Base Hangar is absolutely everything you want a "select your plane" menu theme to be. There's a sense of confidence and just plain swagger on display here and while the instrumentation of the tracks can vary, everything ultimately comes together to compliment the high-octane aerial combat the gameplay offers. An arcade-style airplane combat game shouldn't have an OST this good, but here we are and it's glorious.

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5. Sayonara Wild Hearts - 187 points, 23 votes

Composer: Daniel Olsén, Jonathan Eng, Linnea Olsson, Claude Debussy

Begin Again
Mine
A Place I Don't Know

The game is every bit the visual album I was promised, and I liked the brand of pop that was presented here. I was glad to see this album was on Spotify so I could continue to listen to it outside the game.

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6. Kingdom Hearts III - 170 points, 22 votes

Composers: Yoko Shimomura, Takeharu Ishimoto, Tsuyoshi Sekito

Toy Box Battle
Starlight Way
Dream Eaters

The original tracks are absolutely fantastic as one would expect but the remixes of older tracks really elevate this so much. They invoke the right amount of nostalgia while feeling grander than the older versions. The soundtrack went a long way to making sure that playing KH3 was a delight all the time.

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7. Devil May Cry 5 - 168 points, 25 votes

Composers: Kota Suzuki, John R. Graham, Yoshiya Terayama, Hiromitsu Maeba, Casey Edwards, Stephen McNair, Cody Matthew Johnson, Jeff Rona

Devil Trigger
Unbearable Pressure
Garage

BANG BANG BANG, PULL MY DEVIL TRIGGER

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8. Astral Chain - 156 points, 26 votes

Composers: Satoshi Igarashi, Naofumi Harada, Hitomi Kurokawa, Masahiro "Godspeed" Aoki, Satoshi Setsune, Hiroyuki Fujino, Kei Shimojo, Miki Fujisue

Task Force Neuron
Savior
Jena Anderson

Djent is taking over game OSTs, and thank god for that. First we had Doom's heavy chugging OST in 2016 and now Astral Chain comes three years later to wipe the floor with a bonus dose of catchy hooks and melodies to boot. This is a soundtrack that, much like the game it's from, is so unabashedly "anime" in all the right ways, right down to an opening vocal theme that becomes infectious after the fourth listen. Of course, despite some of its extremely heavy battle music it knows how to reel things in with some buttery smooth electro tracks like the serene Task Force Neuron theme, or the utterly gorgeous Ark Mall theme. This is one of those Nintendo properties that I wish they'd add to Smash if only for the good selection of music we'd get along with it.

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9. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - 130 points, 19 votes

Composers: Michiru Yamane, Keisuke Ito, Ryusuke Fujioka, Ippo Yamada, Atsuhiro Ishizuna

Gears of Fortune
Voyage of Promise
Lost Garden

Much like the game itself, Yamane isn't doing anything new here. Much like the game itself, nobody wanted her to.

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10. Cadence of Hyrule - 125 points, 18 votes

Composer: Danny Baranowsky

Overworld
Gerudo Valley
Death Mountain

Killer remixes of classic tracks with the hella sick beats of the Necrodancer team, not to mention the integration into the gameplay of this imaginative remix. Multi-layered efforts for every single track (battle, peaceful and pause) are just one of many tricks the game uses to ensure your experience vibes with both the adventures of a green-clad hero and of tripping the fuck out at a club.

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11. Pokemon Sword & Shield - 102 points, 20 votes

Composers: Minako Adachi, Go Ichinose

Gym Leader
Sonia
Battle Tower

12. Outer Wilds - 78 points, 11 votes

Composer: Andrew Prahlow

Outer Wilds
Nomai Ruins
Final Voyage

13. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - 77 points, 12 votes

Composers: Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, Ryo Nagamatsu

Overworld
Tal Tal Heights
Face Shrine

14. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - 77 points, 10 votes

Composers: DJ Abo, DJ 1-2

Mansion
Welcome to Hell
Electric Speed City

15. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth - 53 points, 8 votes

Composers: Atsushi Kitajoh, Shoji Meguro, Hidehito Aoki

Road Less Taken
Invitation to Freedom
Nothing is Promised

16. Katana Zero - 49 points, 7 votes

Composers: Bill Kiley, LudoWic, Justin Stander, DJ Electrohead, Tunç Çakır

Breath Of A Serpent
Meat Grinder
Sneaky Driver

17. Disco Elysium - 48 points, 8 votes

Composer: British Sea Power

Whirling In Rags
Joyce
Hardcore Disco

18. Team Sonic Racing - 43 points, 6 votes

Composers: Jun Senoue, Hidekuni Horita, Richard Jacques, Audissi Studios, Tomoya Ohtani, Tee Lopes, Ross Tregenza, Masafumi Ogata, Keiichi Sugiyama, Kenichi Tokoi, SEGA

Roulette Road
Sky Road
Frozen Junkyard

19. Resident Evil 2 - 41 points, 6 votes

Composers: Shusaku Uchiyama, Zhenlan Kang, Tadayoshi Makino, Masami Ueda, Yuichi Tsuchiya, Kentaro Nakashima, Syotaro Nakayama, Taisuke Fujisawa, Mana Ogura, Masahiro Ohki, Cody Matthew Johnson, Shim

Raccoon City
Save Room
Consequence

20. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 37 points, 7 votes

Composers: Yuka Kitamura, Noriyuki "α" Asakura

Corrupted Monk
The Owl
Demon of Hatred

 

[Grexeno]

Archive

A Plague Tale: Innocence
Olivier Deriviere
A Plague Tale
The Inquisition
Massacre

A Short Hike
Mark Sparling
Beach Buds (Short Hike)
Snow, Lots of Snow (Short Hike)
Hello?

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown
Keiki Kobayashi
Daredevil
Hush
Fort Grays Air Base Hangar

Age Of Wonders: Planetfall
Michiel van den Bos
Void Tech
Ruins Of A Galactic Empire
Wave Of Hostility

AI: The Somnium Files
Keisuke Ito
Falco
Lemniscate
Investigation 4/Interrogation

Anthem
Sarah Schachner
The Titan
The Freelancers
Emerald Abyss

Ape Out
Matt Boch, Pharaoh Sanders
End Credits
Full OST

Apex Legends
Stephen Barton
Main Theme
You are the Jumpmaster
Preparing the Arena

Astral Chain
Satoshi Igarashi
Task Force Neuron
Savior
Jena Anderson

Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland
Kazuki Yanagawa, Ken Nakagawa, Daisuke Achiwa, Miyoko Kobayashi
Lulua Chasing Stars
It'll All Work Out... Somehow!
Cygnus

Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout
Kazuki Yanagawa, Shin-ichiro Nakamura, Kosuke Mizukami, Asami Mitake, Hayato Asano, nihachi-san
Secret Base
Volcano 1
Tower 1

Blazing Chrome
Dominic Ninmark, Tiago Santos, KRISTINE
Level 4-1
Boss 2
Final Boss

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Michiru Yamane
Gears of Fortune
Voyage of Promise
Lost Garden

Borderlands 3
Jesper Kyd, Michael McCann, Finishing Move Inc., Raison Varner
Katagawa Ball Boss
Mouthpiece
Killavolt

Cadence of Hyrule
Danny Baranowsky
Overworld
Gerudo Valley
Death Mountain

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
Sarah Schachner
Piccadilly Circus
Theme
Into the Furnace

Celeste: Farewell
Lena Raine
Fear of the Unknown
Beyond the Heart
Farewell

Ciconia When They Cry
Dai, Luck Ganriki, Xaki, Akiyama Uni
Rouge
Ominous3
Apocalypsis Ciconia ll

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm
Geoff Knorr
Maori
Hungary
Canada

Code Vein
Go Shiina
Memory of the Lost
All of You
Battle

Concrete Genie
Sam Marshall
Main Theme
Denska
The Lighthouse

Control
Petri Alanko, Martin Stig Andersen
Take Control
Sankarin Tango
Voces Ignotas

Crackdown 3
Finishing Move Inc.
Rooftop Race
Jaxon's Jam
Djimon Keita

Daemon X Machina
Junichi Nakatsuru, Rio Hamamoto
Arms of Immortal
Overkill
Inherit the Stars

Darksiders Genesis
Gareth Coker
Combat
Astarte
Main Menu

Days Gone
Nathan Whitehead
Soldier's Eyes
The Freakshow
Yesterday

Dead or Alive 6
Hiromu Akaba, Yosuke Kinoshita
Throwdown
Forbidden Fortune
Miyabi

Death Stranding
Ludvig Forssell, Various Artists
BB
Path
Bridges

Destiny 2: Shadowkeep
Michael Salvatori, Skye Lewin, Rotem Moav, Pieter Schlosser
Sanctified Mind
Eye of the Storm
Eden

Devil Engine
Joseph Bailey, Hyakutaro Tsukumo, Mason Lieberman
Celestial Avatar
Scorched Earth Tactics
Immortal Abstract

Devil May Cry 5
Kota Suzuki
Devil Trigger
Unbearable Pressure
Garage

Dicey Dungeons
Niamh Chipzel Houston
Beginner's Luck
Fighting Chance
The Showdown

Disco Elysium
British Sea Power
Whirling In Rags
Joyce
Hardcore Disco

Eastshade
Phoenix Glendinning
Dream Tea Caverns
In the Reeds
Purple Skies

Etrian Odyssey Nexus
Yuzo Koshiro
Exaltation
Eastern Shrine
Unrest - Slaughtered

Far Cry New Dawn
Tyler Bates, John Swihart
Hope County
Highwaymen Anthem
Enforcer

Fate/EXTELLA LINK
Keiichi Okabe, Ryuichi Takada, Keigo Hoashi, Syotarou Seo
Last Stand
Blood Battle on the Moon Cell
My Little Wish

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark
Jan Morgenstern
Learning the Ropes
Desert Battle
The Invention of Chaos

Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers
Masayoshi Soken, Nobuo Uematsu, Masashi Hamauzu, Kenji Ito, Naoshi Mizuta, Masaharu Iwata, Hitoshi Sakimoto
Civilizations
Invincible
Landslide

Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Takeru Kanazaki, Hiroki Morishita, Rei Kondoh
Blue Skies and a Battle
Shambhala
Fodlan Winds

Gears 5
Ramin Djawadi
Kait's Theme
Riftworm Village
Kraken Combat

God Eater 3
Go Shiina
The Dying World
Twisting Tunnels
Devil´s Gaze

Heaven's Vault
Laurence Chapman
Before the Fall
The Nebula
Fantasia on One Good Moon

Hypnospace Outlaw
Jay Tholen, Erik Helwig (as The Chowder Man), Various Artists
Millennium Anthem (2000 New Year's Eve)
I Am the Chowder Man
Icy Girl

Indivisible
Hiroki Kikuta
Crucial Fixture
Main Theme
Lost Genesis

Judgment
Yuri Fukuda
DOOR
Random Fire
Puzzle

Jump Force
Takanori Arima, Zac Zinger, Chad Seiter, Jerome Leroy
Lobby
Japan
Mexico

Katana Zero
LudoWic, Bill Kiley, Justin Stander
Hit the Floor
Breath Of A Serpent (Dragon)
Sneaky Driver

Kind Words
Clark Aboud
Fluorescent
Lift You Along
Lavender

KiNE
Mitchel Wong
A Strange Duet
The Big Break
Recordings and Gigs

Kingdom Hearts III
Yoko Shimomura, Takeharu Ishimoto, Tsuyoshi Sekito
Toy Box Battle
Starlight Way
Dream Eater

Lapis x Labyrinth
Takeshi Matsumoto, Petrov Svyatoslav, and Shota Hashimoto
Ancient City
The Underground Lake
Breaktime

Later Alligator
2 Mello
John Johnny's Restaurant
Pat's Theme
Unsavory Part of Town

Left Alive
Hidenori Iwasaki
Fallen Hero
Shadow of Zaftra
Novo Slava

Life Is Strange 2
Jonathan Morali
Into The Woods
Milk & Bone
Held Apart

Little Town Hero
Toby Fox, Hitomi Sato
Hero
Monster Battle 1
VS. Matock

Luigi's Mansion 3
Chad York, Darren Radtke
E. Gadd's Laboratory
Mezzanine
Boss Steward

Man of Medan
Jason Graves
The Temerity of Youth
Where's the Skipper
Olson

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey
Yoko Shimomura
King Koopa Battle
Bumpsy Plains (Outside)
Broque Madame

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
Takahiro Umeda, Masafumi Okubo
Battle
Shadowland
Attilan

Mary Skelter 2
Yoh Ohyama, Yoshihiro Kawagoe, Toshimichi Isoe, Kazune Ogihara, Toshiki Katoh
Tales of Hameln
Quantum Mechanics
One More Red Nightmare

MediEvil
Paul Arnold, Andrew Barnabas
You Don't Know Jack
A Marrow Escape
Keller Corns (os is it What?)

Metro Exodus
Alexei Omelchuk
Race Against Fate
In the House, In a Heartbeat
Dawn of Hope

Mo: Astray
SIHanatsuka
Into the sky
Extremegy Life Form
Dylan

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne
Akihiko Narita, Zhenlan Kang
Nargacuga Battle
Zinogre Battle
Velkhana

Mortal Kombat 11
Wilbert Roget
Special Forces Desert Command
Chaotian Age
Sea of Blood

My Friend Pedro
Navie D, Noisecream, Battlejuice, Maks_SF
Sinkdrip
DSM-V
Basins

My Time at Portia
Claude Ruelle
Spring 2
Flight
Battle

Noita
From Grotto
Daddy Long-leg's Surprise
There's Sand in my Wand
Beat of The Kosmos

Oninaki
Shunsuke Tsuchiya, Mariam Abounnasr
Battle
Sad
Boss 5

Outer Wilds
Andrew Prahlow
Outer Wilds
Nomai Ruins
Final Voyage

Outward
Jean-Francois Racine
Berg
Abrassar at Night
Enmerkar Forest

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
Atsushi Kitajoh
Road Less Taken
Invitation to Freedom
Nothing is Promised

Pokémon Sword and Shield
Minako Adachi, Go Ichinose
Gym Leader
Sonia
Battle Tower

Rage 2
ohan Nilsson, Andreas Kinger, Eirik Røland
Wellsprings
Ain't it funny
Main menu

Resident Evil 2
Shusaku Uchiyama, Zhenlan Kang
Raccoon City
Save Room
Consequence

Ring Fit Adventure
Shinji Ushiroda, Maasa Miyoshi, Shiho Fujii, Asuka Hayazaki
Field III
Dragaux stadium
Fitness Battle

River City Girls
Megan McDuffee, Chipzel, Dale North, Nathan Sharp
The Hunt
Unseen
Bully

Romancing SaGa 3
Kenji Ito
The Battle
Four Noble Devils
The Wicked Will Never Prosper

SaGa Scarlet Grace: Ambitions
Kenji Ito
Tread on Flowers
Deities: Guardians
Into Bright Light

Sayonara Wild Hearts
Daniel Olsén
Begin Again
Mine
A Place I Don't Know

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Yuka Kitamura
Sekiro, the One armed wolf
Corrupted Monk
Fountainhead Palace

Shenmue 3
Ryuji Iuchi
Theme
Battle
Chopping Wood

Shovel Knight: King of Cards
Jake Kaufman, Manami Matsumae
Birder Ruins
Glidewing
Percy

Slay the Spire
Clark Aboud
Meet the Merchant
Battle With the Champ
The City

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
Gordy Haab, Stephen Barton
Cal Kestis
Menu
Arena

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
Pelle Cahndlerby, Oscar Rydelius, Erik Gudmundson
Battle
Your Hand in Mine
Action over words

Sunless Skies
Maribeth Solomon, Brent Barkman, Micky Erbe
Of the Captain's Making
The High Wilderness
An Uncertain Embrace

Super Mario Maker 2
Atsuko Asahi, Toru Minegishi, Sayako Doi, Koji Kondo
Course World
Sky Theme (Maker Ver.)
Desert

Team Sonic Racing
Jun Senoue, Tee Lopes
Roulette Road
Sky Road
Frozen Junkyard

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III
Falcom Sound Team jdk
Spiral of Erebos
Mourning Refrain
Hamel −Remains−

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Minako Hamano, Kozue Ishikawa, Ryo Nagamatsu
Overworld
Tal Tal Heights
Face Shrine

The Lego Movie 2 Videogame
Simon Withenshaw
Galaxy Map
Harmony City (Quiet)
Sparkles (Main)

The Liar Princess and the Blind Prince
G-angle
The Witch of Madness
Heart Beating Fast
Collection Box of the Whimsical Witch

The Ninja Warriors: Once Again
Hiroyuki Iwatsuki
City Outskirts
Airport
Harbor

The Outer Worlds
Justin E. Bell
Hope
Phineas Escapes
Choice and Consequence

ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove
Cody Wright, Nick Stubblefield
Theme Refunkified
Alien Breakdown
This Crazy Planet

Tom Clancy's The Division 2
Ola Strandh
Balcony Rotary
Dock Wrecks
Saint

Total War: Three Kingdoms
Richard Beddow
The Peasant's Lullaby
The Art of War
Destiny Calls

Touhou Kikeijuu
ZUN
Entrust this World to Idols ~ Idolatrize World
Prince Shotoku's Pegasus ~ Dark Pegasus
Beast Metropolis

Touhou Shinjutou
Wanwan
Noble Green Cinderella
Soaring Over 8 Billion Kalpas ~ Sinful Rampage
Golden Hymn ~ Ibis Trismegistus

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes
DJ Abo; DJ 1-2
Mansion
Electric Speed City
Love Secret Desire

Trials of Mana
Hiroki Kikuta
Nuclear Fusion
Meridian Child
Splash Hop

Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
Ari Pulkkinen
A Wizard's Worst Nightmare
Main theme
Craghill Moors

Tropico 6
Alexander Röder, Armin Haas, Marc Rosenberger, Steffen Brinkmann, Tilman Sillescu, various other artists
La Vida Ideal
La Musica
Friday Fiesta

Untitled Goose Game
Dan Golding
The Garden
The Back Gardens
The Beautiful Minature Golden Bell

VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Michael Kelly
Re-Snowfall
Every Day Is Night
Dawn Approaches

Valfaris
Curt Victor Bryant
Absolute Collision
Chronic Dissolution
Settlement of Rays

Void Bastards
Ryan Roth
Walk the Plank
Unpaid Overtime
Quantum

Wargroove
Phonetic Hero
Ancient Blood
Fledgling Queen
Cheeky Ruckus

Wattam
Asuka Takahashi, Brad Fotsch, Sam Bird, Timmie Wong
A Long Time: The Six Years

Wilmot's Warehouse
Eli Rainsberry
The Sorting Process
CJ Would Like A Word
The Old Warehouse

Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Martin Stig Andersen, Tom Salta
Nazi Problem
Eagle from Berlin
Underground

YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
Andrew Allanson, Michael Kelly, Toby Fox, Calum Bowen
Name Your Friends
Into The Mind
Minor Conversation

Yo-Kai Watch 3
Kenichiro Saigo
St. Peanutsburg: Southmond District
Vs. 'Merican Boss Yo-kai
Tomnyan

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
David Wise, Grant Kirkhope, Matt Griffin & Dan Murdoch
Urban Uprise Updraft
Pagie Power
Stage Clear Rescue a Bee

Yoshi's Crafted World
Kazufumi Umeda
Main theme
Boss
Canyon

Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
Falcom Sound Team jdk
Cloaca Maxima
Crossing A/A
Forgotten Days

 

[Lant_War]

Glad to see Team Sonic Racing make it. I love the OST.

 

[Soulflarz]

Shadowbringers was robbed.

 

[dancingphlower]

I'm surprised Judgment got no love this year :(

 

[ScreamingMadden]

Nice to see Fire Emblem as the winner. Can't complain since it has my 3rd favorite OST of 2019. Meanwhile the real champ Ace Combat 7 clocks in at #4. Which is better than I was expecting. Awesome list overall.

 

[Limabean01]

now THIS is a list i can get behind, im sooo glad to see Sayonara Wild Hearts represented.

 

[hydruxo]

Man what a weak year for gaming OSTs. Hopefully 2020 is better.

 

[Zalman]

Fire Emblem was my number one as well. Amazing OST.

 

[Pascal]

Good list. But I think Katana ZERO should be much higher. And I don't really agree with Bloodstained being so high, I found that soundtrack to be pretty underwhelming.

 

[Tricky I Shadow]

Yet again AI: The Somnium Files and Shenmue III get overlooked. : /

 

[Andrew J]

The lack of votes for Celeste: Farewell is shameful. I am very disappointed in all of you.

 

[erd]

I wasn't expecting Fire Emblem to take it, though it makes sense in retrospect. It's a very popular game with some really memorable tracks, so it makes sense that it appeared on so many lists.

I was really hoping Shadowbringers would manage to take the top spot. It's soundtrack is truly incredible. It's pretty impressive just how highly the people who did vote for it placed it though. If I'm looking at the voting thread correctly, outside of three people who put it at #2, everyone else had it as #1.

 

[Nocturnowl]

Huh, I expected Shadowbringers to take it, and I'd have been cool with that.

Meanwhile I expected Yooka to be buried in the game vote, but also the music vote? Era pls

 

[john titor]

Wattam had a superb soundtrack.

 

[Rommaz]

Got quoted in the GOTY thread and got quoted here too, I'm on a roll LMAO.

Thanks all for the effort as per usual for doing this vote. Disappointed that not many people voted this time around.

Fire Emblem is a great pick for winner. So many good songs in that game.

 

[srtrestre]

Three Houses soundtrack is absolutely amazing. Well deserved.

 

[Paquete_PT]

I don't remember the last time I've been so disappointed with Era :/ the best soundtrack of the year didn't crack the top10 (outer wilds) :(

 

[Jintor]

I didn't go in thinking it was a great year but when I started to actually make my list I realised how difficult it actually was and how many bangers there were. Thanks for your work Grex.

 

[zashga]

Pretty good list. Thanks for tallying the votes and curating sample tracks for all the games; I like the yearly OSTOTY threads even more than the GOTY threads.

 

[leng jai]

Guess no one played The Division 2.

 

[Carcosan Stag]

Thanks for all your hard work Grexeno! Awesome list, all told. I was pulling for Shadowbringers but I adored FE3H's OST as well.

 

[Grexeno]

Direct all compliments for hard work to EarthPainting please.

 

[BBboy20]

I actually expected Katana Zero to be higher than TSA.

 

[KOfLegend]

Sayonara Wild Hearts being anything other than number #1 is a crime and y'all know it :(

 

[Deleted member 10737]

congrats to FE, but damn sayonara wild hearts is way too low. more people need to play it.

 

[Deleted member 51789]

Is there a list of the full results (i.e. everything after the top 20) available?

 

[EarthPainting]

I was a little surprised to see Fire Emblem take it. Shadowbringers and Ace Combat were getting a lot of people's first place picks, but in the end, they just lacked the raw amounts of people. Congrats to the top 20 either way.

 

[NotLiquid]

Travis Strikes Again made it at 14th? Nice!

 

[Rutger]

Top two don't surprise me at all.

I really didn't get a chance to hear many new soundtracks last year, so I'll enjoy going through the list.

 

[Goldenroad]

I didn't vote because I could only think of two games who's soundtracks blew me away (Outer Wilds & Disco Elysium). I can't believe neither of those even cracked the top 10.

 

[Dancrane212]

Ace Combat in the top 10 proves this list being superior to the GOTY one. Thanks for putting this together Grexeno/EarthPainting!

 

[ScreamingMadden]

Will say, bummed but not surprised at all that A Short Hike and Later Alligator didn't make it in the top 20. Both have excellent music but they're very niche indies on Steam so I understand why. Both games need more people to play each though. Nice to see Cadence of Hyrule in the top ten though.Thanks for the list Grexeno and EarthPainting!

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Hey, I actually got one of mine on the Top 20!

 

[KernelC]

Fire Emblem 3H was supposed to be #2!
Era you've disappointed me

Shadowbringers was robbed.

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Speechless.

 

[Xita]

Pleasantly surprised to see TH take it. Maybe someday I'll get around to FFXIV and its soundtrack.

 

[Lonestar]

Shadowbringers was indeed robbed.

 

[Regiruler]

No Devil Engine, Alexa play Zone 4.

 

[Morrigan]

Grexeno In my ballot I gave info + samples on a few games that are still not in the archives (Fell Seal, MediEvil, etc.), any chance they could be added soon? Thanks!

 

[Grexeno]

Grexeno In my ballot I gave info + samples on a few games that are still not in the archives (Fell Seal, MediEvil, etc.), any chance they could be added soon? Thanks!

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[Morrigan]

Slowly working on filling out the sheet. Sorry for the delay.

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Thanks and no problem, was just checking :)

 

[Dangerblade]

I don't remember the last time I've been so disappointed with Era :/ the best soundtrack of the year didn't crack the top10 (outer wilds) :(

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I listened to several tracks and fucking LOVE it! Hopefully it will see a vinyl release this year.

 

[jett]

I didn't vote because I didn't listen to a lot of game soundtracks this year but I'm glad AC7 got in there.

 

[Rainy]

I thought this thread would be stickied haha. I was looking for it.
Glad Fire Emblem won!

 

[Grexeno]

The archive is now complete, thanks to the incredible work of EarthPainting.

 

[PBalfredo]

Congratz to Three Houses! A spectacular soundtrack, a standout even within the series!

Also, that testimonial for DMCV is perfect.

 

[mrmickfran]

I just now see this

Yeah, Three Houses deserves the win Tearing Through Heaven is INCREDIBLE

 

[LunaSerena]

Yeah, Fire Emblem's OST is amazing and its a crime it hasn't been released yet by IS. Let's hope that now the DLC is done they'll release the full soundtrack.

 

[Naga]

Sorry for the bump, but I didn't see this thread go up back then.
Nice results! Really happy that AC7 managed to be in the top 5.

I wonder what are the results past top 20.