This edition of the column should really be RPG Coming This Week, as it’s one of those rare times where we only have one item on our agenda. Whether this one game is even an RPG is… debatable, but we as a site land on it being more role-playing than not. I personally dislike arguing… Read More »

SHIFT UP‘s Stellar Blade soundtrack turned out to be one of my favourites of 2024, taking me by surprise with its blend of contemporary popular music genres, electronics, and experimentation. I love how it moves from mellow atmospheric pieces to mid-tempo ambient pop to full-blown electro-bangers. You’d think after ten hours of music I might… Read More »

Fans of strategy RPGs have another game to keep an eye on in 2026: Beaten Path from Peacebreak Studio hopes to deliver compelling gameplay and storytelling. Following a successfully funded (but still ongoing) Kickstarter campaign, it’s clearly resonating with RPG fans. The game places you in control of young adventurer Panna, trapped in a mysterious… Read More »

The Shin Megami Tensei 30th Anniversary -Special Sound Compilation- is a massive collection of music split between a 5-CD set and the baffling addition of a USB stick for what would have been another 14 CDs’ worth of music. In some ways, this set offers a massive, inclusive look at the music of Atlus’ flagship… Read More »

Well, it’s that time of the year again! Time to celebrate the best of RPG and adventure game music throughout all of… what do you mean it’s September 2025 now? What do you mean that we got most of this written at the beginning of the year but it took until now for the last… Read More »

2024 was a colossal year for RPGs, with so much goodness crammed onto my plate, I was in danger of popping, probably accompanied by an explosion of numbers above my head. Consequently, the volume and quality of soundtracks to choose from was bountiful. Although I haven’t managed to get through every significant score, these are… Read More »

There were some amazing RPG and visual novel music releases in 2024. Here are six that I particularly enjoyed! The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak OST This mini-soundtrack released with the Limited Edition copy of The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak was only available through the NIS America store. Honestly, you can throw… Read More »

Wow… 2024 has come and gone. The sheer quantity of game music released continues to grow with each passing year. But I’m not just looking for quantity, I’m looking for the highest quality! Here are my top five (combined OST and arrange) I found in the last year! 5. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad… Read More »

Like every year, 2024 was packed with too many amazing games and intimidatingly huge soundtracks. I probably listened to more new games than I played, but even then I’ll be catching up with this year for the next decade. Here are a handful of albums and scores I did listen to that impressed me. Unicorn… Read More »

For Music of the Year 2024, instead of having all music releases in a single pool, we opted to spin off arrangement and remix albums as well as vinyl releases, to let us highlight an even larger variety of music from throughout the year. See five of our favorites below and check out the rest… Read More »

Continuing our new categories for Music of the Year 2024, we have a selection of notable vinyl releases. There’s constantly so much going on in the world of vinyl, both inside and outside of the video game music space. Many vinyl releases do not cover new releases, as we routinely see new vinyl editions of… Read More »

When I’m not headbanging to the heavy sounds of metal’s many genres, I like to let my ears relax with RPG tunes. While metal provided some bangers in 2024 (Opeth’s The Last Will and Testament and Crypt Sermon’s The Stygian Rose), role-playing games also had their fair share. Here are my three favorite RPG albums… Read More »