Games with original vocal tracks

Okay so here's the rules:
-Songs must have lyrics that were written and recorded specifically for the game (sampled vocals don't count, no straight covers of existing songs, no songs from other sources, etc)
-If the song is a remix of another song, that remix MUST have new lyrics
-Songs must be accessible or at least present within the game, preferably with the vocals in tact (some exceptions will be made)
-Made-up languages and gibberish is fine as long as it sounds like it's supposed to be words

And that's about it! The main purpose of this list is to introduce people to music and games they may not have heard of, so I highly recommend you look up some of the songs listed if any of them catch your eye!

Not in database:
Children's Musical Theater (phillips cd-i)
mambo a go go (arcade)
beatmania append gottamix2 ~going global~ (playstation)
pachislot akumajo dracula (arcade)

Exile Vilify
Cara Mia
Want You Gone
Cosmic I/Smell the Universe
Nasty Majesty
Shark Bytes
Fly Octo Fly
Ebb & Flow (Octo)
Into the Light
It's Bugsnax!
Ode to Gramble
The Queen of Bugsnax
Do the Wiggle
Megamaki Serenade
Welcome to the New World!
Unearthly Blues
It's Pizza Time!
Pizza Mayhem (unused)

--NOTES:--
Many of the songs in this game use stock vocal samples, including the first two listed here. However, there are a couple vocal samples that were recorded specifically for the game to replace samples that were removed due to copyright concerns:
"Monkey!" in Unearthly Blues was originally a sound clip from the Super Mario Bros. movie (the 1993 one)
"Hello there!" in It's Pizza Time! was originally taken from Medamayaki from Wario Land 4
Tonight
Lonely Storm
Dreams of Our Generation
I Love You, My One and Only
Beautiful One Day

--NOTES--
These songs all have Japanese and English versions.
Frolf Hip-Hop
--NOTES--
The situation with this song is kinda complicated. It was originally made for one of 30 CG promotional shorts that aired on "Oha Suta", a Japanese children's show that aired on weekday mornings. One short features the song in full and another has some characters singing it towards the end. When the game was localized for North America, 27 of the CG shorts were given English dubs and included on a bonus disc titled "Ribbit King Plus", which unlocks shorts as you progress through the game. Since the English version can only be heard on this bonus disc, and since you can only see it on said bonus disc by playing through the main game, you could kinda-sorta say that the English version of the song is new to this game???
A New Venture
Jump Up, Super Star!
Break Free (Lead the Way)

--NOTES--
English and Japanese versions of these songs are accessible in all versions of the game.
Big City Life ft OV
Condensed Milk
You're Gonna Have 2 Jump
Hub-Bump 2 Tha Front
Jingle - Coches Twist
Jingle - St. Pod Craunch
Jingle - Lobasho Slash
Jingle - Balustenich Fizzle
You Wouldn't Know
Phantom of the Bwahpera
NEW GAME
Your Ocean
Storm
unconscious
Kill the Itch
Breaking Free
Insomnia
We're Losing You
CHASE
Rockin' Rockin'
Shibuya Survivor
SCRAMBLE
DIVIDE
LAST CALL
Unpainted
World Is Yours
LITTLE THINGS - JP
LITTLE THINGS
Celestial
Virbank City Gym (Performed by Koffing and the Toxics)
Thrilling! Is this love?
Love Ooh Ooh Paradise
Young Love Rock 'n' Roll
Struck by the Rain
That's Paradise

--NOTES--
All of these songs have Japanese, English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian versions.
Tokimeki no Story
I'm a lady now
Sono Hitotsubu no Ōkina Namida ni wa
Classmate
I’m Here (feat. Merry Kirk-Holmes)
Cyber Space 1-1: Database
Cyber Space 1-2: Flowing
Undefeatable (feat. Kellin Quinn)
Cyber Space 2-5: Déjà vu
Break Through It All (feat. Kellin Quinn)
Cyber Space 3-1: Escape the Loop
Cyber Space 3-6: Enjoy this World
Cyber Space 3-7: All Reality
Find Your Flame (feat. Kellin Quinn & Tyler Smyth)
Cyber Space 4-2: Ephemeral
Cyber Space 4-5: Arrow of Time
Cyber Space 4-8: No Pain, No Gain
Dear Father (feat. Quinn Barnitt)
One Way Dream (feat. Nathan Sharp)
Vandalize
Report1 - We're a Dancing Team
Report1 - Invasion Song Mecha "Kin-Kon-Kan"
Pine's Theme
Report4 - Go Go Cheerleader
Report5 - Who is the Real One?
Purge's Theme
Report6 - Destruction Begins
Report6 - Connected Hearts
This Is My Happiness

--NOTES--
Aside from the full versions of the character themes, all of these were recorded in both Japanese and English, however only the Japanese versions were ever officially released.
Unsconscience
Spectrum Obligato ~ Ebb & Flow (Out of Order)
#47 onward
Short Order
18 x 13
Wario de Mucho

--NOTE--
"18 x 13" was recorded in English, European French, German, Italian, American Spanish, European Spanish, and Japanese.
Katamari on the Swing
Katamari on the Rocks
Kuru Kuru Rock
Everlasting Love
Bluffing Damacy
Angel Rain
Houston
Blue Orb
Katamari Holiday
Baby Universe
DISCO☆PRINCE
A Song for the King of Kings

--NOTE--
While "Katamari on the Rocks" is a remix of an existing song, it features noticeably different lyrics from the original (that nobody has bothered to transcribe)
The World Hasn't Even Started Yet
SEKAI
needLe
Composing the Future
Newly Edgy Idols
wah wah world!!
Ready Steady
Cellphone Love Story
Stella
Jackpot Sad Girl
Becoming Potatoes
More! Jump! More!
Forward
Rainbow-Colored Stories
Awaiting Clear Skies
Color of Drops
RAD DOGS
Close to gray
Once Upon a Dream
Angel's Clover
IDSMILE
「1」
Cinema
Love material
Tondemo-Wonderz
Kanadetomosusora
From Tokyo
Beat Eater
Icedrop
Glory Steady Go!
magic number
Pules of the Meteor
Reborn
Gunjou Sanka
Machine Gun Poem Doll
Showtime Ruler
Lower
STAGE OF SEKAI
Worldwide Wander
Saribitotachi no Waltz
mirai
Niccori^^Chousa-tai no Theme
Tricologe
Flyer!
Peaky Peaky
Metamo Re:born
Nomad
88☆彡
Made-to-Order
Identity
Aoiro Enogu
Cosmospice
Tokugawa Cup Noodle Kinshirei
Salamander
If
Gekkou
Awake Now
Bug
Hoshizora no Melody
Machi
SHOW OFF
Parasol Cider
kimi no yoruwo kure
Voices
Utsuro wo Aogu
Journey
ÅMARA
Hurray

--NOTES--
Okay so after doing this I've made an executive decision to not make full song lists for mobile gacha games
Face My Fears
Don't Think Twice
(You Can't) Handle My Style
Justice Combo Meal
Food-Related Love

Really short songs from Episode 3:
Kick the Chort
Stealin' Stuff From My Own Dang Store
Limozeen is Not Very Nice
Doin' the Wigglie
My Face (Please Don't Put Needles In It)
Hugo Left Me Miserable
Left Shift Alt Delete
Roll Wit' Da Punches
3 O'Clock Twist
Slide to the Right, Y'all Bridesmaids
Maybe If...
Blood Flow
Another Passage
I'm With You - Vocal ver.
Twister
Underground
Long Dream
Calling
Hybrid
Ooparts
Give Me All Your Love
Someday
Owari-Hajimari
Game Over
Detonation
Make or Break
Emptiness and
Déjà Vu
Transformation
Three Minutes Clapping
The One Star

--NOTES--
Many of these songs were recorded in both English and Japanese, and some of them (mainly "Twister") have remixes that play in certain scenarios. Also, the Japanese and English soundtracks both have exclusive songs, and the places where certain songs play is different between the two versions. It's really confusing.
I am a Master and You!
Fire Fire!!
Treasure
Baby Baby!!
Fright Flight!!
Casino in my Hair
Power Off! Power On!
Taste of Teriyaki
Got to Move!
Keep Your Head Up!!

--NOTES--
Aside from "Treasure", "Casino in my Hair", and "Keep Your Head Up!!", every song on this list has an alternate version for PaRappa's story, which you unlock after clearing the final stage as Lammy. (PaRappa's version of "I am a Master and You!" doesn't actually play in the game, but it's in the game files)
Dance Through the Danger
Fist Bump
Infinite
Fighting Onward
Nowhere to Run
Justice
Moonlight Battlefield
Virtual Enemies
Set in Motion
Fading World
The Light of Hope

--NOTES--
Believe it or not, the full vocal version of "Infinite" doesn't play in-game.
Lost in Thoughts All Alone

Unrated

Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)
Mother, I'm Here (Zulf's Theme)
Setting Sail, Coming Home (End Theme)
The Pantheon (Ain't Gonna Catch You)

Unrated

Theme of Bayonetta - Mysterious Destiny

Unrated

Tomorrow Is Mine (Bayonetta 2 Theme)

Unrated

Katamari Dancing
Danketsu
BOYFRIEND A GOGO
Bless My Stars
Sayonara Rolling Star
Harvest of Love
INTO THE SKY
Katamarity
Guru Guru Gravity
Colorful Heart

Unrated

Akuda House Propaganda

Unrated

Big Bunyan Ride!

Unrated

Go! Space Hunter Drake Redcrest
Teriyaki Blues

--NOTES--
Both of these songs have English and Japanese versions, even if it can be a little hard to tell with the latter

Unrated

Fly!
Maker
Flow

Unrated

Agonizing Jizo Ridge
Widower's Serenade
Gentleman's Tea Break
Urth Middle School Song
Goldfish's Carp Story

Unrated

As For Dreams

Unrated

Notorious D.I.G.

Unrated

Always Smiling

Unrated

Let's Go Away
The King of Speed
Sky High
G, A, M, E, O, V, E, R

Unrated

Are You Waiting?

Unrated

Don't Forget

Unrated

NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A
BIG SHOT

Unrated

I Am Machine
All The Screen's a Stage
Fertilizer
Foetus
Asked to Be Born
School
Love
War Crimes Are Easy
Justice
Old Age
Replay

--NOTE--
For the record, this game came out 7 months after Psycho Soldier's Japanese release, so it's not the first instance of vocals in a video game. Just clearing that up because when you sort this list by release date it puts this game before Psycho Soldier

Unrated

Prelude
Fertilizer
Birth
Infancy
School
Adolescence
Love
Betrayal
Soldier
Pain
War Crimes
Dance
Guilt
Power
Decline
Danger
Old Age
Wonder
Death
Transfiguration
Replay

--NOTE--
Many of these songs reuse lyrics from the first game's soundtrack, some of them samples taken directly from it, but, like, nobody's ever heard of this game so who cares

Unrated

DK Rap

Unrated

Light of my Life

Unrated

Feel the Magic (I'd Die For You)

Unrated

Lost in Thoughts All Alone

Unrated

Chapter 2, Season 1
Stand and Fight
Chapter 2, Season 2
I'm A Cat
Chapter 2, Season 4
Battle Breakers
Chapter 2, Season 5
Flip Reset
Frosty Serenade
Click Pow Get Down
Orbital Overload
Butter Barn Hoedown
Chapter 2, Season 6
Drop In
Chapter 2, Season 7
Sunny's Song
Axe 2 Grind
Mecha Power
Chapter 2, Season 8
Space Chimp
Flake That
Queen's Anthem
In Btwn
Chapter 3, Season 1
Redline Cruise
Chewer's Choice
Loot in the Mountains
Infinite Hype
Chapter 3, Season 2
Origin's Anthem
I Just Wanna Fight
Crashed In and Lights Out
Take Me Higher
Chapter 3, Season 3
Pop It
Lil' Whip (Mmm!)
Show Them Who We Are
Say It Proud
The Loveless Bandit
Chapter 3, Season 4
Call it Bad Luck
The Ballad of Lil Grriz
Dark Nights/Red Lights
Chapter 4, Season 1
High Stakes Club
Batter Up, Buddies
Way Too Fast
Run It
Chapter 4, Season 2
Thunder
Vital
Meet Me in the Sticks
Brace for Chaos
Chapter 4, Season 3
Seize the Future
The Underfox
Not Without a Fight
Chapter 4, Season 4
Race to the Horizon
Hungry for the Chase
Stars are Born
Break Through
Season OG
Welcome to the Split Show
Chapter 5, Season 1
You Don't Know Me
Return of the Tiger
Winterfest Wish
Make It Known
Streets Ignite

Unrated

Freaky Flyers Theme
Bandito's Pride
Torpedo Run
Arabian Rap
Ode to Le Beegfoot
Bag the Monkeys
The Lumberjack Song
Paulie Atchi Blues
Pilot-X
Spiders in Transylvania
The Spider Queen
The Ubertank of Doom
The Pirate Song
Freaky Flyers Reprise

Unrated

CAPTAIN FALCON
PICO
MRS. ARROW
BLOOD FALCON
JAMES MCCLOUD
SUPER ARROW
ROGER BUSTER
BLACK SHADOW
PHOENIX
DIGI-BOY
DAIGOROH
PRINCIA RAMODE

Unrated

Soft Machine
Twisted Reality
Flyin' to Your Heart
Nuff Respect featuring 'NAHKI'
21st Century Boy

Unrated

My Heart Divided

Unrated

GulGul Tonight
Friends

Unrated

The Beacon
I Got This
Too Big To Fail
Captive Normals (A Fever Dream)
Buzzsaw
My Heart Feels No Pain
Surfacing
In a Blink
Synesthesia
Secret Song (Making Things Is Hard)

Unrated

Chill it Right
Icy Girl
Colder Than the Rest
Millennium Anthem (2000 New Years Eve)
Gray's Peak
Granny Cream's Hot Butter Ice Cream
The Chowder Man's Hotel Room
I Am the Chowder Man
Kruncher
Squisherz
Desperate in Dallas, Montana
Ready to Shave
Chowder Man, Please Come Back Home
Hypnospace is Cool
Christmas Pain in Christmas Town
One-Legged Man
Squisherz Rap
Snub the Nub

--NOTES--
There are some songs in this game that weren't originally made for it so I'm not counting them. Even so this game's got a LOT of music so there's probably a couple I've missed

Unrated

Alpha
Little Miss
Sunrise
The Love
Brazil
Alive
Jeevan
Dystopia
Wekiddy

Unrated

Katamari on the Wings
Katamaresort Song
Bluffing Damacy
Galactic S-O-U-L
Lonely Rolling No More
SHADOW AND LIGHT
Everlasting Love + You
The Moon and the Prince (and LEOPALDON MIX)

--NOTE--
"Everlasting Love + You" is a mashup of two songs from earlier titles ("Everlasting Love" from We Love Katamari and "YOU ARE SMART" from Katamari Damacy), but it features a new English translation of the former's lyrics.

Unrated

Handsomemen Theme
Street Performer's Song

--NOTE--
Neither of these songs are featured on the OST, nor do they have official names.

Unrated

MAD RAT DEAD RAP

Unrated

Phantom Returns, Act 1 - Overture
Phantom Returns, Act 3 - The Roast

Unrated

Rescue Girl

Unrated

Understanding Moji
Exciting Journey
Mojibri Rowing
Anticipated Arrival
Swallowing the Word
Love Moji Grind
Flying Mojiko
Whenever and Wherever
Scribble Stone
Insult Battle
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Rumbling Volcano
Osorezan Stand Up
Osorezan Let's Test Your Skills
Moon Landing
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
Understanding Truth

Unrated

Be True to Yourself

Unrated

Shippo no Uta
Midori no Hane
Yoake no Octave (unused)
Dreams in a pie

Unrated

Dreams, Dreams

Unrated

Octodad (Nobody Suspects a Thing)

Unrated

Say "I Gotta Believe!"
Toasty Buns
Romantic Love
BIG
Sista Moosesha
Hair Scare
Food Court
Noodles Can't Be Beat
Come a Long Way
Always Love!

Unrated

Poinie's Poin

Unrated

Still Alive

Unrated

Opening Number

Unrated

~RECETTEAR~

Unrated

All the Times
wish i could care less
One Shift More
Know You
Dreams Don't Stop
One Slip Too Late
Helping Hands

Unrated

Karate Rhythm
The☆Bon Odori
Koi no Honey Sweet Angel
WISH Kimi o Matenakute

Unrated

Showtime
Cheering Marie
The Last Dance

Unrated

The Friendly Demon Song
La Canción De Los Mariachis

Unrated

King of the Creatures

Unrated

More Than Jerks
Midtown Cowboys
Just You And Me (And Ted E. Bear)
Good For You (Good For Me)
Useful to Boot
World of Max

Unrated

1,000 Light Years Away

Unrated

Knight of the Wind
With Me
Fight the Knight
Through the Fire
Live Life

Unrated

Reach For The Stars
Speak With Your Heart

Unrated

Fairy of ICE

Unrated

Sonic Heroes
We Can
This Machine
Follow Me
Team Chaotix
What I'm Made of...

Unrated

Metallic Madness Act 1
Metallic Madness Act 2

Unrated

Sonic Speed Riders
Catch Me If You Can

Unrated

Un-Gravitify
Catch Me If You Can

--NOTES--
The song titled "Catch Me If You Can" is completely different from the song of the same name from the original Sonic Riders. (it's also way better imo)

Unrated

So Much More

Unrated

Endless Possibility
Dear My Friend

Unrated

City of Color
Ink Me Up
Calamari Inkantation
Maritime Memory
Bomb Rush Blush
Tide Goes Out
Splattack!
Ink or Sink
Seaskape
Kraken Up
Metalopod
Now or Never
Shellfie
Split & Splat
Hooked
Sucker Punch
--NOTE:--
Only the first six songs on this list have publicly-available lyric sheets, but all of them are being "sung" and thus still count

Unrated

Inkoming!
Color Pulse
Ebb & Flow
Acid Hues
Muck Warfare
Tidal Rush
Spicy Calamari Inkantation
Fresh Start
Rip Entry
Undertow
Don't Slip
Endolphin Surge
Shipwreckin'
Fins & Fiddles
Seafoam Shanty
Seasick
Kinetosis
Chopscrewey
Entropical

Unrated

Clickbait
Headhammer
Triple Dip
Paintscraper
Rinse/Repeat
Learning Curve
Sea Me Now
Sandy Side Up
Candy-Coated Rocks
Tentacle to the Metal
Calamari Inkantation 3MIX
Wave Goodbye
Anarchy Poisons (Bird Mix)
Anarchy Poisons (Snake Mix)
Anarchy Poisons (Boar Mix)
Anarchy Rainbow
Daybreaker Anthem
Fins in the Air
Till Depth Do Us Part
Liquid Sunshine
Tomorrow's Nostalgia Today
Big Betrayal
Ska-BLAM
Rockagilly Blues
Ripstop & Go
Aquasonic

Unrated

NOT ON THE SIDELINES
Stage Select
Character Select
Bushin NinjaStar Cypher (Vocal Ver.)
All Over the World (World Map)

21 Comments


1 year ago

Final Fantasy VII Remake "Hollow" as well as literally everything from Nier and Nier: Automata

1 year ago

Final Fantasy XI Chains of Promathia - Distant Worlds
Xanadu Next - White Lie in Black

1 year ago

From FFX i think Otherworld is another vocal track.

1 year ago

Great list. Very comprehensive. A few I can think of:
Klonoa 2 has a song in their fake language sung by him, Crash Nitro Kart's Japanese version has one in the title screen, Flower Sun and Rain has F.S.R.; No More Heroes 2, 3 and Travis Strikes Again have at least three each, TSA has the most of these.

1 year ago

Oh yeah, Bayonetta 3 just came out. It has at least two original vocal songs.
I'm pretty sure Re: Your Brains wasn't made for Left 4 Dead 2

1 year ago

"Ideal for Violence" from Yakuza Kiwami also has vocal bits in it

1 year ago

great list! I always love when games throw in original vocals. a few Im familiar with:

-Limbus Company is still releasing, but so far has "In Hell We Live, Lament", "Between Two Worlds", and "Pass On".
-Library of Ruina has "String Theocracy", "From a Place of Love", "And Then is Heard No More", "Iron Lotus", "Children of the City", "Gone Angels", and "Poems of a Machine". I probably missed a few even with all those
-Sayonara Wild Hearts has "Sayonara Wild Heart", "Begin Again", "Dead of Night", "Mine", "The World We Knew", "Inside", "Wild Hearts Never Die", and "A Place I Don't Know"
-Paradise Killer has "Paradise (Stay Forever)"
-Slime Rancher has "1,000 Light Years Away"
-I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1NIT!!!!1 has the game's theme (and only song), generally referred to with the same name
-Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3!? has "It's Dangerous to Go Alone", "Apocalypse View", and a few written in pig-latin-spanish ("A La Idavay!", "Mufuchofo Gufustofo!", "Chakalaka")

1 year ago

If I'm not mistaken, the parts where they say "good eatin'" in the Golf theme in Pizza Tower were uniquely made for that song and could partially count also. Unless they're existing samples in which case, just ignore me.

10 months ago

Sludge Life has Bubble Up and Sludge Life
Sludge Life 2 has No Sequel, Git Dum, Sky Scrape, Eat The Rich, and Double Bubble

9 months ago

popslinger. i dont know which tracks beyond the one used in the trailer

also, industrial rage from wild woody is another track from that game with lyrics. there may be others that i dont remember but i know that one has some vocal parts

i'd also hesitate to include destati from kh - that opens an enormous avenue for songs with epic latin chanting and the like. if you're including that you'd probably want to include shit like "guardiano nel buio" too

9 months ago

I included Destati because it has an official lyrics sheet readily available. The main sources I use treat Guardando Nel Buio as an instrumental track

2 months ago

For Persona 3 FES Heartful Cry doesn't have any lyrics btw. (Also you don't have regular Persona 3 there either)
Also amazing job lots of effort put into this list and it's super impressive

1 month ago

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1 month ago

Higurashi When They Cry Kai, Umineko When They Cry, Umineko When They Cry Chiru, Ciconia When They Cry, Hanachirasu, Fullmetal Daemon Muramasa and all Science Adventure Series have several original songs

Also, Yakuza 5 have one more original song called "Dream"

1 month ago

And the most recents Like a Dragon games's releases

1 month ago

@TheFred kinda irrelvent but I swear ever since I've started playing Higurashi it's everywhere, I can't escape

1 month ago

Oh and since I commented a irrelvent thing I'll make it up by saying:
FF7 Remake also has: Stamp (both in EN & JP), Scarlets theme, The Midgar Blues (JP & English), RUN RUN RUN (and maybe more I think but it's a big OST)
& Also Persona 3's Iwatodai Dorm only features stock lyrics, so I don't think it counts
Also Death Stranding has BB's Theme

1 month ago

@Ollchops The peak its inevitable, hope you like since its my favorite work (principally Higurashi Kai)

1 month ago

@TheFred I'm really enjoying, and as my first real VN experiance it's so good. It is indeed peak (And I'm only on like chapter 3)

1 month ago

Tatarigoshi its the first Kino arc, and its even better With Kai's Arc. Enjoy one of my favs generes/medias with THE goat!


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