Late-90s fantasy MIDI given a proper studio treatment, and it still sounds like coming home. EverQuest's original soundtrack got this 2019 release on Windows, collecting the music that defined an entire generation of MMO players.
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"Theme of Everquest" is the one that hits you right in the login screen memories. "Faydark" captures that feeling of being lost in an enchanted forest at level 5 with no map. And "Deserts of Ro" is the hot, desolate crawl you remember dying in.
The combat tracks rotate between "Combat or Cower," "Combat Anew," and just plain "Combat." Each one a different flavor of panic. "The Jaunty Bardic Song" and "Halfling Habits" remind you that Norrath had a sense of humor tucked between the death penalties.
If you ever heard this music through tinny PC speakers in 1999 and felt like the world was infinite, this is your proof it was.