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| # | Preview | Candidate | Win rate | Match win rate |
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| — |  | One-Winged AngelFinal Fantasy VII, 1997. Nobuo Uematsu put a Latin choir in a PlayStation | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | To ZanarkandFinal Fantasy X, 2001. Piano over a city that no longer exists | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Aerith's ThemeFinal Fantasy VII, 1997. The melody attached to gaming's most famous scene | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | AnswersFinal Fantasy XIV, 2010. Written to score the death of the game itself | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dearly BelovedKingdom Hearts II, 2005. A title screen that made people sit still | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MEGALOVANIAUndertale, 2015. Toby Fox reused it twice before it became a meme | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Hopes and DreamsUndertale, 2015. The pacifist run's payoff in one leitmotif pile-up | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Baba YetuCivilization IV, 2005. First game music to win a Grammy | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Sogno di VolareCivilization VI, 2016. Christopher Tin set da Vinci's flight notes to choir | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Halo ThemeHalo, 2001. Monks chanting, then the guitar kicks the door in | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | DragonbornSkyrim, 2011. Thirty men shouting in a language Bethesda invented | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | SwedenMinecraft, 2011. C418 wrote loneliness into four chords | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Still AlivePortal, 2007. The credits song that outlived the game's marketing | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Want You GonePortal 2, 2011. Jonathan Coulton had to top himself and did | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Snake EaterMetal Gear Solid 3, 2004. A Bond theme for a game with no Bond | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Rules of NatureMetal Gear Rising, 2013. Guitars that only start when the boss does | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | City of TearsHollow Knight, 2017. Piano and rain under a dead kingdom | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Reach for the SummitCeleste, 2018. Lena Raine scored a panic attack and then the summit | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Floral FuryCuphead, 2017. A live big band recorded like it is 1936 | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BFG DivisionDOOM, 2016. Mick Gordon tuned guitars down until they stopped sounding like guitars | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Weight of the WorldNieR: Automata, 2017. Sung in a language invented for the future | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ApotheosisJourney, 2012. Austin Wintory's cello climb, first game score Grammy-nominated | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Light of NibelOri and the Blind Forest, 2015. Wordless vocals over a dying forest | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Good RiddanceHades, 2020. Eurydice sings the game's thesis in a lounge | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Build That WallBastion, 2011. Zia's theme, sung while you are still holding a hammer | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The SpineTransistor, 2014. Ashley Barrett hums it and the whole game turns | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Theme of LauraSilent Hill 2, 2001. Akira Yamaoka made grief sound like a guitar | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Ezio's FamilyAssassin's Creed II, 2009. Jesper Kyd wrote a franchise anthem by accident | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Last SurprisePersona 5, 2016. Acid jazz for a turn-based menu | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | I Really Want to Stay at Your HouseCyberpunk 2077, 2020. Buried in the game, then broke out three years later | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | IcarusDeus Ex: Human Revolution, 2011. Gold-tinted synth for a gold-tinted future | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Stardew Valley OvertureStardew Valley, 2016. One person wrote the code, the art, and this | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | That's the Way It IsRed Dead Redemption 2, 2018. Daniel Lanois scores a ride you cannot win | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Elden RingElden Ring, 2022. The title theme, before it starts taking things from you | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Gwyn, Lord of CinderDark Souls, 2011. One piano against the final boss of a loud game | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Cleric BeastBloodborne, 2015. A choir screaming at the first thing that kills you | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | TravelersOuter Wilds, 2019. Every instrument is a person waiting at a campfire | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | The Last of UsThe Last of Us, 2013. Gustavo Santaolalla, one ronroco, no orchestra | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Memories of MotherGod of War, 2018. Bear McCreary rewrote Kratos as a father in one theme | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BB's ThemeDeath Stranding, 2019. Ludvig Forssell wrote a lullaby for a jar | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Fallout 4 Main ThemeFallout 4, 2015. Inon Zur's brass over a country that ended | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Silver for MonstersThe Witcher 3, 2015. Percival's folk instruments swung like weapons | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Gerudo ValleyOcarina of Time, 1998. Flamenco guitar in a Nintendo 64 cartridge | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Song of StormsOcarina of Time, 1998. Twelve notes that summon rain and dread | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Breath of the Wild Main ThemeBreath of the Wild, 2017. Piano alone, for a Hyrule that already fell | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Green Hill ZoneSonic the Hedgehog, 1991. Speed written into a bassline | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Overworld ThemeSuper Mario Bros., 1985. The most recognized melody ever written for a machine | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Corridors of TimeChrono Trigger, 1995. A time-travel waltz on a SNES sound chip | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Terra's ThemeFinal Fantasy VI, 1994. Uematsu's march, before the world ends halfway | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | KorobeinikiTetris, 1989. A Russian folk song became a Game Boy's voice | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Dr. Wily Stage 1Mega Man 2, 1988. The bar every chiptune is still measured against | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Vampire KillerCastlevania, 1986. Konami's sound team made a whip sound like disco | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Guile's ThemeStreet Fighter II, 1991. It goes with everything, and that became the joke | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Aquatic AmbienceDonkey Kong Country, 1994. David Wise made a SNES sound underwater | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Battle! ChampionPokemon Red and Blue, 1996. The last battle, on three channels | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Lonely Rolling StarKatamari Damacy, 2004. J-pop for rolling a ball over a city | — win | — match wins |