10 Best Video Game Soundtracks of 2025 (So Far)

It’s not just cinematics and evocative storytelling that video games are continually becoming masters at crafting. Some of the best music tracks of the year come from unexpected titles, getting your feet tapping, head bopping, and dopamine flowing anytime they come on. 

Every year, games aim to capture gamers’ hearts with the best music compositions, channeling the best that atmospheric, melancholic, energetic, and upbeat songs have to offer. You have all kinds of jazz, classical music, drums, piano melodies, and everything in between, culminating in a work of genius.

Below you’ll find the best video game soundtracks of 2025 so far, some of which will most likely feature on the nominees for the best score soundtracks for video games this year. 

10. Assassin’s Creed: Shadows – Shadows Main Theme

First up, we have the Shadows Main Theme soundtrack of Assassin’s Creed: Shadows. Ubisoft truly achieved a work of art, drawing sounds from the feudal Japan era. I bet you’ll get goosebumps listening to this, with its atmospheric tunes and power to evoke the intense need to embark on your revenge-seeking journey.

9. DOOM: The Dark Ages – From the Ashes

You want to be constantly in it in a horde-based combat game like DOOM: The Dark Ages. Fortunately, the soundtrack understands the assignment, with From the Ashes ranking among the best video game soundtracks of 2025 so far. It’s an eargasm of pumped-up epic metal music, created purely to pump your adrenaline to the max. 

8. Rift of the Necrodancer – Amalgamaniac

“Amalgamaniac” by Alex Moukala ranks in eighth place among the best video game soundtracks of 2025 so far. Being a musical combat game, it’s perfect that the song is intensifying, adopting fierce synths and electro beats. The music piece feels inspired by the ‘80s, mixing in gothic undertones and beautiful chorals. 

From the start, it’s catchy, hooking you to a dancing rhythm. And only building up pace to a climactic end.

7. Monster Hunter Wilds – Rey Dau Battle Theme

Another banger you’ll want to add to your Spotify favorites is the Rey Dau Battle Theme in Monster Hunter Wilds. Firstly, the boss fight itself is an intimidating, enormous dragon lashing out devastating beams at you. And accompanying this glorious sight is an electrifying music piece, emanating the crashing of thunder and lightning. 

6. Kingdom Come Deliverance II – Saint Barbara Theme

I won’t blame you if you cry upon hearing the Saint Barbara Theme in Kingdom Come Deliverance II. It’s an orchestral and choral masterpiece that resonates with the soul, spiraling throughout the game’s vast open world and historical setting.

5. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach – Any Love of Any Kind

As one of the hopeless and devastating stories out there, it’s no surprise that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach’s soundtrack makes it to the best video game soundtracks of 2025 so far. Particularly, “Any Love of Any Kind” by Woodkid featuring Bryce Dessner. The lyrics hit hard: “There was a time when I would shatter at every hit or so, But now I barely feel the pain when I fall…” as well as the heartbreaking but hopeful tune. 

4. Avowed – Avowed

“Avowed” by Cameron Gorham featuring Justin E. Bell is the official soundtrack for Avowed. It’s deeply atmospheric and innovates on unexpected inspirations. You definitely have your heartstrings pulled, sometimes in chaotic directions. But it’s definitely a moody soundtrack that, while forgettable, showcases heavy production in its textures, instrumentation, and sound design.  

3. South of Midnight – Two-Toed Tom

Two-Toed Tom is, in fact, a boss in South of Midnight, who looks like a giant alligator roaming about the lakes and swamps of Alabama and Florida state lines. The fight itself is pretty tough, adding a clever twist of blending platforming and combat. So, it’s only right that it comes with a brilliant soundtrack of its own. 

The “Two-Toed Tom” soundtrack by Olivier Deriviere, Craig Robinson, and Carlone Owens is fantastic. It’s just pure vibes, harkening to the boss fight’s unique location, Deep South culture. 

The best part is that it’s been a build-up, a crescendo of repeating harmonies and melodies that burst into life when you finally step into the boss battle as a fully performed track. 

2. Mario Kart World – Rainbow Road

You’ll doubtlessly get a kick out of Rainbow Road’s music. It comes on when you unlock the final track of the Special Cup, after unlocking all seven cups of Grand Prix mode. 

One would say it’s the perfect point to unlock a true masterpiece, when you’ve fully marinated in the jazz arrangements and classic Mario songs of the game. To match the stunning cinematography and ambitious design of the track itself are delightful set pieces. 

You don’t just get one song, but different set pieces in the music harken back to all of the previous Rainbow Road iterations we’ve seen throughout the Mario Kart franchise. And finally, wrapping up with a piece that feels almost like a sendoff.

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Une vie à peindre

At the top of the best video game soundtracks of 2025 so far is “Une vie à peindre” by Lorien Testard featuring Alice Duport-Percier. In fact, all of the music tracks in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are deserving of their rightful place on this list, with each one worthy of winning the best score soundtracks for video games this year.

Anyway, Une vie à peindre is simply an incredible song. And knowing the context of the track makes it hit even harder. It plays at the end of Act Three during the final boss battle when going up against Real Renoir. 

In this battle, you’re fighting for Maelle’s ending, where she tries to defeat Renoir to take him out of the canvas, so that she can continue living on the canvas instead.

It’s amazing how this track goes on for a whopping 11 minutes. The lyrics themselves are impactful: “continue to love you, keep on painting…” But also the mixing, featuring outstanding vocal pieces and metal-tinged rock as well as a soft Bizet operetta.