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Any Fromsoft soulsborne game.
I have listened to Rimworld, Disco Elysium, and EVE Online's soundtrack while working. Though it's probably my emotional attachment to EVE more than anything lol
The Eve Symphonic Orchestra is so good though.
If you like metal... the tracks from 2004 Painkiller rocks.
- Risk of Rain 2
- Hollow Knight
- Earthbound
Non-game instrumental artists:
- GoGo Penguin
- Floating Points (especially "Promises")
- Kiasmos
- Max Cooper
- Boards of Canada
- Reid Willis
- C418
Persona 3/4/5 (not all tracks are instrumentals, but most of them are and they are straight bangers)
Katana Zero Danganronpa 1, 2, V3 Silent Hill 1, 2, 3 (all I can vouch for, but I hear the later games still have banging soundtracks) Crosscode Kingdom Hearts 1/2 Nier Automata Minecraft Donkey Kong Country 1/2 VA-11 HALL-A Catherine Full Body Deadbolt Risk of Rain 1/2
Some of these you'd have to sift through, like Silent Hill is one part industrial creepy noise, and one part absolutely incredible hip hop and rock
Any of Marty O'Donnell's Halo soundtracks
Lots of Elder Scrolls and Elder Scrolls Online
Lots of Metal Gear stuff
Kingdoms of Amalur
Shadow of the Colossus
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon (badass 80s music)
Assassins Creed 3
Diablo 2, Deus Ex Human Revolution, Mass Effect 1
Minecraft
Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters has some great tunes.
Edit: and The Talos Principle
Everything by Jeremy Soule. Especially Guild Wars 2 and Skyrim.
Crysis 2
Overwatch
A Hat In Time
Total Annihilation
I liked the music in La-Mulana 1&2.
Thomas was alone OST is superb.
I know it's a little obscure, but if you like Kamen Rider and ancient games, the music from this game is awesome
Spiritfarer has an excellent soundtrack, which is utterly wasted on such a mediocre game.
As an added bonus, some of the tracks on the OST are longer than you'll ever experience in game because they cut them short for some reason.
Cloudpunk OST for a Blade Runner vibe.
Stellaris. Absolutely fantastic.
Shenmue: Orchestral Soundtrack
Those are my favourites but I'll also put something different here too,
Civilization Beyond Earth and Battletech have marvelous soundtracks
Portal / Portal 2
"Science Is Fun" is a great track, as are the end songs "Still Alive" and "I Want You Gone".
I prefer Sci-fi background noise so Surviving Mars is my favorite. Mass Effect is ok but I find it gets a little too cinematic and bombastic at times. FTL and Into The Breach, or really anything by Ben Prunty is good too
Can't go wrong with pretty much any pre-Skyward Sword Zelda. SS itself also has Ballad of the Goddess, which was good, but I can't remember any other tunes from it or BOTW that aren't just reprises of tracks from previous games.
Overall, Surviving Mars might be my favorite work soundtrack. Assorted tracks from Stellaris plus the Age of Wonders and Civilization series are also good. Something about the soundtracks in 4X games and games like them always puts me in a productive mood while not making me emotional and thus distracted like RPG soundtracks can sometimes.
Since you like FF, I'd suggest looking into Uematsu's other works as well, especially Lost Odyssey. For similar ones in the genre, there's also Yasunori Mitsuda's work in the Chrono and Xeno series.
Rise of Nations soundtrack is fantastic sandis the only "video game music" that I semi-regularly listen to.
Especially check out "High Strung" that would always play in multiplayer whenever a player dropped a nuke on another player.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL829D6AF91A5C465E&si=yvPeVG9kuDx71mZb
Commenting here because I tend to enjoy game soundtracks and want to look these up.
The Battlefield V soundtrack is pretty great, in my opinion.
BF1 also has a really great soundtrack made by the same people.
Portal 2, Minecraft, Half Life 2, Black Mesa, Team Fortress 2, Battle Block Theatre, Doom 2016, Doom Eternal,...
Tropico 3
No-one has suggested Baldur's Gate 3?