*Press A* 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Videogame Soundtracks

In 2024 we identified a great wave of equalizing conditions in terms of production values between large corporate actors and the independent scene. In 2025 that continues and indeed seems to now be the norm. The trend seems to be

*Press A* 2024 ~ The Year’s Best Videogame Soundtracks

While the long tail of the 2023 videogame industry crisis seems to have no end, musical talent and creativity have flourished. Last year’s trend among the bigger (AAA) developers of renovating old musical formulas continued, from Reynatis to Metaphor Refantazio.

*Press A* 2022 ~ The Year’s Best Videogame Soundtracks

This year, the soundtrack world reflected the videogame industry’s predilection for safe(r) bets, with almost half of our list consisting of sequels. But it also pointed at a more established, regularized field in which house names such as Olivier Deriviere,