Man, Koei Tecmo needs to remaster this...

I don't know if it counts but there's also 'It Means Everything" from the OMORI soundtrack

You should make a playlist of the songs mentioned and a few others from games and share the link

Rock Band has "De-luxe" and "Sweetness and Light" by Lush.

anyone know what game is at 1:38?

I know that the blood radio station in saints row is cultivated by 1 employee. In every game. I wouldn't be surprised if it was desired

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you should check out song of saya OST if you ever make a pt.2 :)

SubaHibi has shoegaze in its OST too

i always found silent hill 2 soundtrack more closely related to post-rock, kinda like a bark psychosis creepy version

I'm your 1k sub great vid

I liked the gitaroo man mention here especially since it was referencing probably one of the most impactful levels (in my opinion) I love that game so much

In Fifa 13 also has a shoegaze song, G# by Kitten, super nostalgic stuff

You should talk, just like, 10, 20% faster here, I think. Otherwise, amazing work! Really great dive into an underrepresented and underrated tool in the games composer's toolkit.

Also, Rock Band 2 includes "De-Luxe" by Lush in it's playable song list. Pretty sure that's shoegaze.

Blackgaze is probably my favorite shoegaze subgenre, it combines the harsh and distorted screams of black metal with the beutifull atmospheres that shoegaze can create, it would be cool for a game to have it in it!

Fun fact about NMH: suda51 named his studio after the final track on Rides most iconic album. He took the nane of Grasshopper and nsned his studio Grasshopper menufacturer.

Awesome awesome video, one inclusion I think you would enjoy is Armored Core, which had a ton of shoe gaze songs by the inhouse composer/band FreQuency, even armored core 6 had a few of these songs but not as frequently as previous entries. Look into songs like Thinker and Stargazer for a good overview its worth noting Moon RPG was by the Mario RPG staff, it inspired Undertale and Toby Fox helped rerelease Moon on Steam. Onion Games still makes awesome games like Black Bird

End of Small Sanctuary was my gateway into shoegaze, as soon as I heard it I started searching everywhere for music that gave me the same feeling that track did.

Good video! I'm surpised that no tracks from the Life is Strange series made the list. They might have some of the best representations of shoegaze for an emotionally narrative-driven game series, at least in my experience. Especially the main menu theme from LiS: Before the Storm, which has a pretty fair resemblance to "Sing" by Slowdive, as well as the frequent inclusion of tracks from the dream-pop group Far Caspian in their soundtracks.

Great video! "The Sleepwalk" is a project by Masaki Oshima AKA WATCHMAN. He had another shoegaze project called "Sadesper Record" that he did with NARASAKI of Coaltar of the Deepers fame. TL;DR, if you like that Sleepwalk track check out Sadesper Record and Coaltar of the Deepers for more classic Japanese shoegaze excellence.

the game Devotion has a good music from the band No Party For Cao Dong, in some terms, remenbers a shoegaze style

Head In The Ceiling Fan - Title Fight

Could 'Going Down the Sunset Road' from Phantom Crash count in this...? Maybe...? If you stretch it? 🤭

I think the song "it means everything" from omori takes some shoegaze elements, while i don't consider it 100% shoegaze it takes me to a similar state of mind

i became obsessed with music (and am now a musician) because of TWEWY and Jet Set Radio. Changed the trajectory of my life.

Unsure if anyone mentioned the obvious music games of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, but if not I’ll just say their inclusion of shoegaze is pretty limited. Lush had one song on the RB2 disc and one more as DLC, but other than that, RB4 had select showing from the new school of shoegaze crossovers like Wednesday and Teenage Wrists, and a bunch of Deftones songs, though you’d be stretching to call them a shoegaze band even if they had included Be Quiet And Drive or songs like that.

10:37 so the player is quite literally...gazing at the shoes of the main character?

My intro to shoegaze was De-Luxe by Lush on Rock Band Unplugged!

you'll either love or hate the Hylics 2 soundtrack and i'd be excited to hear your thoughts on it

as a lifelong fifa sweat and shoegaze fan i found the slowdive crossover very satisfying lol. fifa has always had super diverse soundtracks but even i was slightly surprised to see them on there when the game released back then! great vid

holy crap, the whole reason i got into showgaze is cuz of minikui no moji no ko, soooo cool to see someone talk about it >:]

Shoegaze isn't a very tracker or sample friendly genre imo

What is the game from 1:36? The rpg that appears after guitaroo man. I didnt catch this game pop up later and was curious

This is amazing. We need a retro videogame shoegaze scene now! Similar to the 90s videogame jungle/dnb revival :)

Max Payne 3 Soundtrack by Health would be a good fit in this list. Check out their song "TEARS". It plays in the airport shootout scene, such a memorable moment in the game.

You could’ve included The Reverse Will for the Silent Hill section as well. Trip hop mixed with layers of synths and samples that emulate the sound of shoegaze super well.

Gotta do one of these on jungle dude

Swervedriver are totally shoegaze no one wanted to be associated with the name shoegaze at the time cause it meant you were boring

AYUMI OF SPOOL MADE MUSIC FOR A GAME???? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?? I MIGHT PLAY THAT GAME CUZ IM A HUGE FAN OF SPOOL

4:35 coincidentally was playing burnout paradise when this came up

So glad this video came up in my recommendations, new sub here for sure. Im a shoegaze lover and i agree with your silent hill 2 take i always felt like it had that vibe.

I was looking for more shoegaze tunes to request on a weekly video game music show broadcast and streamed by a college radio station, and BAM, your video popped up! You've got awesome recommendations! 👍💯 Minikui Mojika no Ko OST piqued my interest at first (shoegaze and noise rock FTW!), then I got hooked on Soft Science's "Nothing" from Necrobarista. (I had that tune aired.) But now The Home Conversion takes the cake. Their music is criminally and severely underrated, though lots of gamers totally love it. (Yes, I've just had two of their tracks aired as well.) Their NEON STRUCT OST albums are total bangers. Synthwave/synth pop and shoegaze = KILLER combo! 👍💯 Sadly, the band is no longer active. Apparently, the members (brother and sister) are doing their own thing separately. Being a My Bloody Valentine fan, I was pleasantly surprised to find out they got shout-outs in video games. I wouldn't expect Slowdive to make an appearance either. I'm learning something new every day! 😊 ​A video on post-rock in video games would be totally awesome! 🎸💯 I've found a few bands and cover artists in that genre, but I'd love to discover more of them.

love the sleepwalk mention in this video

I'd like to point out the game Hypnospace Outlaw, it is set in alternate history early internet days and features a lot of music featuring fictional genres, one of those is "dirthaze" which is pretty much equivalent to shoegaze, as an example, the fictional band glamocaster has a bunch of pretty shoegazey songs, like I'm Afraid or Fuzzbucket, i think they're taken from an actual band since a lot of uploads on yt link to them but they're all dead so not sure exactly what's up with that, but it is shoegaze featured in games!

i wish youd let us listen to a bit of the music without u talking over it, would make the video better imo

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I will add G# by Kitten in Fifa 13. I didnt know very much about music by then, but as many songs from that fifa, it wasn’t like anything I heard before. It wasn’t until 2019-20 that I would discover that that type of genre was called shoegaze

Dead Space 2 and 3 both featured some excellent shoegaze tracks for their end credits, DS2's in particular really added to the surreal, spacey, ominous nature of the game as a reflection of everything that transpired at the end of the game before Jason Graves' creepy orchestral strings lurk their way back in. They also used various songs from Russian Circles for some of the adverts, which I know are a bit more post metal than shoegaze, but still probably worth mentioning.

elite beat agents was the fire along with it's japanese titles - i guess i'd love this game too.