


In these games, music is at the core of the player’s experience. His list, here, features games where music goes further than just providing a great soundtrack. He runs the amazing Polylists resource, a website for those working in games to share lists of recommended games under self-chosen topics. We worked on this list of games where music is integral to play with Andreas Zecher. This gave many games a unique sound, but it was how the music interacted with gameplay that was really interesting.

Music has been an important part of video games since specialised sound chips made composing and playing back music possible during the advent of 8-bit home computers in the 80s.
