gaming Creepiest Video Game Soundtrack You've Ever Heard?

[Dr. Frasier Crane 319]

The creepiest just so happens to be one of my favourites and that's the OST from Silent Hill 2.

Most of the tracks are just weird ambiance and strange sounds that have a real impact when you're walking around a huge abandoned prison just waiting for something to jump out and attack you.

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,162]

I feel like I am in the minority. Through all my years of gaming I have never heard one piece of creepy game music. I've listened toa  few pieces that people claim to be creepy, but I've found them to be tame. :/

 

Maybe I am just missing something.

[Invincible 2,091]

 

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[Khaoios 1,970]

Wolfenstein: Spear of Destiny (1993 or 1994) - The soundtrack is great, yet i don't want to say creepy but very mysterious and suspenseful. 

[LazuriteDreams* 136]

I know some people are going to be surprised when I say this but

For me it would be the Super Metroid theme. The beginning part just give me the creeps.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vYsVk23oxA

 

Even when I still hear it, I get goosebumps. >.<

Edited July 4, 2014 by LazuriteDreams*

[Celtore 2,770]

 

I found this soundtrack pretty creepy when I was a kid. It didn't help either that I was/am frightened of clowns and this music plays nonstop through the circus level.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Celtore

[Jaref 344]

I'd say Metroid Prime, such a good soundtrack. It has some really unnerving tunes 

 

But sometimes the lack of music is what makes it. The Souls games are an excellent example. Tower of Latria in Demon's Souls, amazing atmosphere, zero music. This boss theme though... ; - ;

 

 

Still think Demon's Souls had the best boss themes of the souls games. Much prefer the sombre, dark vibe to the loud orchestrated tunes of the Dark Souls games 

Edited July 4, 2014 by Jaref

[Castle Bleck 19,378]

Gall Spaceport (Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire):

 

 

A.K.A. Boba Fett's official theme in the films.

[EddG 554]

It still makes me wonder why they used this creepy track over the encouraging EU/JP final boss...

[A Black Circle 1,586]

Silent Hill.

I need not say more.

[catnet 9,358]

It's not exactly the most frightening track around, but it's the context and series that it's in that makes it very shocking the first time you hear it. 

Edited January 17, 2015 by Edwardo_Brony

[Silver Letter 1,832]

I haven't really encountered any really scary video game soundtracks and I have hundreds of them. Horror is part of the atmosphere of a game, not really the music I guess.

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Condemned: Criminal Origins has a pretty damn scary ambient OST.

 

Here's just a mixture of the first level's ambient sound.

 

[Clockwork Chaos 219]

yep. it has to be Silent Hill.

 

[Troblems 5,619]

@@A.V., I've merged your topic with an already active one. 

 

I'm not sure which track it is, but there's mission in Payday 2 that you have to stealth, and occasionally there's a violin that screeches after a bout of silence. I almost shit my pants every time it happens.

[Lyra's Pants 154]

I've never played many scary video games when I was younger, as I was always something of a scaredy-pony. Therefore, I can't say a good lot of video game OST scared me. However, I can name a few games with the occasionally scary soundtrack.

 

For example, the sword fighting game Soul Blade, one of my childhood favorite video games, had this tune.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv2SYknOpNQ

 

The crescendo did not give me sweet dreams, especially in Hwang's ending with those red demonic eyes, wide smile with fangs, and high-pitched laughter. In retrospect, the ending was pretty cheesy, but when I was an impressionable grade schooler, I always tried to lower the volume when it came on. And not to mention this track.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZDmSfm9ie4

 

This is the BGM used for final boss Soul Edge's ending. Honestly, the first half never really affected me, even as a child, despite sounding ominous, but the second half, with the haphazardly plucked strings and the brass section really unnerved me. Come to think of it, crescendos and loud noises used to always scare me when I was little. I could think of a couple more scary tunes, but for now, I'm satisfied with my selections.

[Castle Bleck 19,378]

Also from Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire:

 

 

Those Dianogas... *Shudder.*

[GrauWitz 1,010]

Half-Life 2's OST has a particularly creepy track

http://youtu.be/JirmUGt-DhA