Celebrating 15 of the best indie game soundtracks from 2025

(Plus a few soundtracks you don’t want to miss from 2024)

If you love indie games and indie game soundtracks and you’re reading this right now, you’re in the exact right place! When trying to make sense of my favorite indie game music from last year, I knew I needed to ask Andrew from the incredible podcast Dialogue Tree to help me make a list of some of our favorite soundtracks from 2025 (with a few picks from late 2024!) We sincerely hope you will check out these impactful tunes, and consider supporting the artists on Bandcamp if you have the means. Maybe you’ll discover your next favorite indie game or musician!

1. MainFrames

Soundtrack by: Romain Rope
Favorite Song: [ADMIN_ANNIE]

A “micro-chill” soundtrack to a game that is anything but, Romain Rope’s score to Assoupi’s inventive and occasionally meltdown-inducing platformer MainFrames is a sparkling, bubbling example of melodic electronica that somehow manages to capture the look of the game, a digital watercolour fusion of coral, amber, fuschia and bubblegum, in audio form. Some songs bounce (Mailbox), while others strut (Floppy’s Home). It’s a hard game, but don’t let that put you off. There is, in the language of the setting of this game, a workaround.

2. UNBEATABLE

Soundtrack by: DCELL Sound Team
Favorite Song: PROPER RHYTHM (ALL THERE IS TO IT)

The UNBEATABLE soundtrack has Jet Set Radio and Josie and the Pussycats vibes in the best way possible. In a rhythm game where music is illegal, it is crucial for each track to have its own identity and to make a strong impression, while seamlessly blending to form a cohesive experience. They absolutely nailed it! I laughed, I cried, I danced, and I sang very loudly in my car. The music of UNBEATABLE is a vulnerable revolution that is overflowing with heart.

3. Otto’s Galactic Groove

Soundtrack by: Rupert Cole
Favorite Song: Squarely In The Groove

How exactly do you score a crank-powered rhythm action game about a sea slug travelling through space seeking inspiration for her human owner? If you are UK based composer Rupert Cole, you do it with a wild, kaleidoscopic rollercoaster ride through hip hop, chiptune, ambient and metal, all wrapped in an appealing Y2K aesthetic, as fun to listen to as the game is to play. I talked to Rupert about this, and then Edie Woolf, the artist behind the look of the game, on separate episodes of Dialogue Tree.

4. Dispatch

Soundtrack by: Andrew Arcadi
Favorite Song: Z Team

Sometimes all you need is some synthy superhero shit with an electric guitar riff, and similar to the Z team, it gets the job done. The Neo-80’s vibes of Andrew Arcadi’s original soundtrack for Dispatch are responsible for how truly immersed I was while playing this game. I can’t forget to mention the incredible licensed tracks like Radio performed by Bershy or one of the most iconic bar fights to ever exist, underscored with HOES DEPRESSED by THOT SQUAD.

5. The games of Thomas K Young

Soundtrack by: Thomas K Young
Favorite Song: DUDU DUNES (Be Brave, Barb)

Thomas K Young is the ever elusive developer of my favourite bite sized, snack shaped platformers of the last few years. In 2025, the New Zealand based platformer savant released 3 games, all of which featured Young’s characteristically bouncy self composed soundtracks. Be Brave, Barb is my favourite of this trio. An isometric autowalker about an introverted cactus finding herself through the healing powers of platforming, Be Brave, Barb takes Young’s typical sound and adds a vaporwave haze reminiscent of early Neon Indian or Toro Y Moi.

6. Skate Story

Soundtrack by: Blood Cultures and John Fio
Favorite Song: Asphalt Reverie

Combining the psychedelic indie pop sound of Blood Cultures with John Fio’s tenor saxophone and bass clarinet tracks, the Skate Story soundtrack is the perfect accompaniment to jaw-dropping and shiny in-game visuals as you sail along hard surfaces. Fio’s skill as a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and arranger really shines through. Although the two artists have different musical styles and instrumentation, they emphasize the vibes within the world of Skate Story, resulting in a fantastic and unexpected recipe for an unforgettable soundscape that feels like a dream you don’t want to wake up from.

7. MotionRec

Soundtrack by: kyoheifujita
Favorite Song: Memories

MotionRec is a small game with a small soundtrack, but is here because, in its best moments, it reminds me of the liquid, bodily electronica of Baths. Memories comes closest to appropriating the best bits of Baths’ music in under a minute and a half. A rainy build buried under a high filter, blooming to a clattering side chained conclusion, it’s a short, snappy piece that stuck with me more than many other individual songs all year.

8. NAIAD

Soundtrack by: HiWarp
Favorite Song: Rebirth

Boasting an astounding amount of 98 unique tracks, the music of NAIAD is somehow haunting, playful, and somber all at the same time. It brings me to tears over and over again with its simple and earnest melodies and reminds me that the passage of time is unavoidable and beautiful. Solo developer HiWarp loves to experiment within artistic mediums, and the music does feel experimental and heartwarmingly familiar all at the same time. This is the first soundtrack I loaded onto my new mp3 player, and I love intentionally listening before bed. Reflective and meditative like water flowing, it’s more complex than meets the ear!

9. Axyz

Soundtrack by: Multiple artists
Favorite Song: kraM 2

Axyz is a modern, knowing take on Kula World, and in terms of the music, developer Space Lion Studio takes the characteristics of that predecessor, and runs with them, absorbing the club influenced sounds of the time and updating them for the present day. Featuring multiple contributors all passing a 90’s dance and post club musical aesthetic through their own filters, the soundtrack is a dreamy yet propulsive thing that puts you in the middle of an imagined dancefloor with your eyes closed and your hands in the air. Roll away.

10. Sorry We’re Closed

Soundtrack by: C.Bedford, Okumura, Devix and Catton Arthur 
Favorite Song: Okumura feat. Catton Arthur – Jenny (Underground Station Boss)

Imagine being so locked into a survival horror game with a subtle yet chilling soundscape, only to be met with a high-energy hip-hop banger each time you enter a new boss fight! I like when games surprise me, and the feeling I experienced engaging in combat with this soundtrack backing me up was all I needed to blow through the bosses in Sorry We’re Closed. More hip-hop music in indie games, please!

11. Promise Mascot Agency

Soundtrack by: Alpha Chrome Yayo
Favorite Song: Kaso-Machi Nights

Showa era jazz. Nocturnal Lynchian drama. Bouncing chiptune. Blazing metal. 70’s AOR. It’s all here. Promise Mascot Agency is not perfect, but ACY’s soundtrack is. It’s my favourite album of 2025, and I love it so much that I celebrated it with a maximalist, 2+ hour tribute in conversation with the composer himself.

12. Ritual of Raven

Soundtrack by: Marie Havemann
Favorite Song: Pip’s Lament

Composer and sound designer Marie Havemann has worked on many iconic games like the Duck Detective series and The Berlin Apartment. I can only describe her musical choices for Ritual of Raven as perfectly twinkly and magical, with a musical tempo and bright dynamics that are paced so pleasantly. It’s downright delightful listening! I’ve even taken to putting on the soundtrack to relax, cook, or fall asleep.

Our Mutual Picks

13. Is This Seat Taken?

Soundtrack by: Rupert Cole
Favorite Song: Barcelona

Is This Seat Taken? OST is a breezy world tour matching your journey in the game. A ukulele takes you to the beach, a mellotron for a walk in the park, some lolloping percussion has you sightseeing in a capital city and, finally, some light jazz sits you down with a coffee and a good view.

-Andrew

I love the variety here, and I think Rupert Cole did a fantastic job of creating music that perfectly accentuates the vibe of each city. This is exactly the kind of music I need in my puzzle games, supporting my brain power but never distracting me!

-Kate

14. Henry Halfhead

Soundtrack by: Lucien Guy Montadon
Favorite Song: Henry Halfhead

Henry Halfhead is a game about play, and Lucien Guy Montadon’s soundtrack captures the joyful spirit of the game in remarkable fashion, an exuberant mix of buzzing synths, wordless vocals and snappy percussion that sounds like video game music, but live, and lively.

-Andrew

It’s clear that the music team behind Henry Halfhead had a complete blast with no inhibitions while creating these catchy and special soundscapes. Hearing it now, I can’t help but smile in appreciation and think back on what playing through this game meant to me.

-Kate

15. Many Nights a Whisper

Soundtrack by: fingerspit
Favorite Song: Morning, Dreamer

Many Nights A Whisper is uncommon, a rarity, something played once but never forgotten. The soundtrack, by Spanish composer fingerspit, is the same. Light and airy, melodically direct but compositionally abstract, electronic quivers spiralling off into a golden, Mediterranean sky, transporting you somewhere you don’t recognise but is beautiful all the same. Impossible, unmistakeable, unforgettable.

-Andrew

What Andrew said!

-Kate

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We look forward to even more incredible video game music in 2026! Thank you to Andrew for working on this with me and for helping me discover new indie games and indie game music. You can find all of his excellent work over at Dialogue Tree!

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