MOST UNDERRATED VIDEO GAME OSTS?

This is a difficult question for me to answer. I guess underrated or lesser known games are more likely to have underrated soundtracks as well. Honestly, most of the stuff I'll mention probably isn't underrated but it's some of my fav video game music.

-Ultima series and especially later Apple 2 games are some of my favourite "medieval" music in games. I really enjoy how they worked with hardware limitations of the computer. It could be fun to search for more obscure good tunes from Apple 2 games and from other competing microcomputers and consoles of that pre-nintendo era. Apple 2 in particular was limited to a 2 tone polyphony, but the sounds sound way less distorted (if done well) than for example nes tunes. The real deal was the Mockingboard sound card, which made Apple 2 an audio powerhouse.

-Compile soundtracks for their PC Engine shmups and Blazing Lazers in particular. I would say that they are more banging than better known Ys soundtracks for the same console.

-Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is a classic and I think it might be the most recent soundtrack I have listened to. But what about its predecessor Prince of Persia 3D.

-You probably have heard about Wipeout and its rave soundtrack. But let me tell you, some of the tunes from Tempest 2000 for Jaguar are acid sick.

-Excluding Indie Games would be wrong as there are many (way too many) good soundtracks too and also many boring and mediocre ones. I haven't played anything for a while, so my most recent (some 20 months old) recommendation would be Signs of the Sojourner.

So, I would end my post with this beautiful gem from an olde DOS gameth of UFO:

I don't know about entire soundtracks, or even underrated games. But here's a few favorites of mine that might fall under those auspices?

The line between the game being obscure and the ost being obscure by proxy is blurry but...

Never played this game, still a banger:



Dustforce a game I've played but never heard anyone mention, developers went their seperate ways but the composer went on to do stuff for Tunic. So I imagine that might take it out of obscurity:



I keep thinking this game is not obscure since Knytt was all the rage in like 2005. Time and lack of cultural stickyness changes things. And the internet is much bigger now. Thing that makes Knytt music so good to me is that it emphasizes a chill atmosphere that I don't think there's enough of in video games in general.



This game doesn't even exist, but the soundtrack does and it slaps.

I remember Knytt, but I don't remember the music being as rage as Fez for example (2012 was when I got my hands on Knytt).
I also reminded myself of several indie games starting with Legendary Gary with its french synth pop (I recommend looking up xXSicXx at Bandcamp:


Doesone did some great soundtracks for Samurai Gunn and Heavy Bullets. The former is trip hop inspired and the latter just dope. They're not obscure, but def underrated.


Paratopic has some nice dark synths.


And not underrated over here, but I need to mention great soundtracks for Soma Spirits and Soma Union by Agent Ape:

If you've heard of game before, it's probably not underrated and fairly well known. That being said, off the top of my head, I want to say FFLegend3/Saga3, just because being on the original Gameboy, it had some pretty good music even with the hardware limitations.

THIS is my favourite OST
I loved it at the time... and these days too.
(this series also had great visuals and art)

also the following (fantasy games were so cool)

I can recall a few games I had on the Commodore 64 that had decent tunes. I don't have the wherewithal to search YouTube for tracks, but, Platoon, Curse of Babylon, Defender of the Crown, and Psycastira are certainly among my favorites from back then in regards to music.

Gameplay, though? Eh.