OSTDB: Official Video Game Soundtracks

OSTDB is an open, community-maintained database of official video game soundtracks with links to Spotify, Apple Music and album.link.

• Website: https://ostdb.net
• Source data: https://github.com/OSTDB/soundtracks
• API: https://ostdb.net/api

Quick start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("metjum/ostdb", split="train")
print(ds[0])

Or with pandas: pd.read_csv("hf://datasets/metjum/ostdb/ostdb-soundtracks.csv").

Updates

The file is regenerated from the OSTDB database every Monday. Each row is one soundtrack release; one game can have several.

Fields (ostdb-soundtracks.csv)

Column	Description
id	Unique soundtrack id
game_igdb_id	Game id in IGDB
game_name	Game title
album_name	Soundtrack release title
artists	Credited artists/composers, separated by ; (may be empty)
spotify_url, apple_music_url, album_link_url	Links to the release (may be empty)
ost	1 if the release is marked as the game's original soundtrack
created_at	When the row was added (UTC)

Only approved entries are included. Games without a known soundtrack are left out.

Citation

@misc{ostdb,
  title  = {OSTDB: Official Video Game Soundtracks},
  author = {{OSTDB contributors}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://ostdb.net}
}

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please attribute OSTDB (https://ostdb.net).

Limitations

Only official releases are listed. Coverage is incomplete and grows daily. Streaming links can change or disappear.