What are your creepiest music tracks in non-horror games?

[Frickinfrik]

Here’s mine:

Boss Theme- Mario Party DS
Enemy Near - Twilight Princess
Who’s There? - Persona 4
Inside the Egg - Link’s Awakening
Eagle’s Tower - Link’s Awakening
Challenger Approaching - Smash Melee
Game Over - Smash Melee
Clock Town Final Day - Majora’s Mask
Final Hours - Majora’s Mask
Majora’s Mask Battle First Phase - Majora’s Mask
Joke’s End - Superstar Saga
Spook-E-Mart - Simpsons: Hit and Run
Lost Woods - Breath of the Wild
Banshee Boardwalk - Mario Kart 64
Ghost House - New Super Mario Bros. DS
Deep Dark Galaxy - Super Mario Galaxy
Daredevil/Speedy Comet - Super Mario Galaxy

 

[Questless Knight]

 

[Viviana Santos]

 

[Miles Miles]

 

[thumbsdown]

 

[J.B’s rabbit den]

Fun fact, that song still makes me hide under my blankets at night and I’m a grown man too

 

[SecretStrategist]

The boss theme from Paranoia/Psychosis for the TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine.

 

[Sunnyside]

First theme I thought of. That tone shift terrified me when I was younger.

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-Phantasy Star Online - Revolution to the Origin Part 2
-Etrian Odyssey IV - Den of the Dark Realm
-Etrian Odyssey IV - With Eyes Blazing
-Metroid Prime - Title Theme
-Jet Set Radio - Grace and Glory
-Croc - Underwater 1
-Monster Hunter Generations - Nakarkos Theme
-Super Metroid - Maridia (Sandy Desert)
-Donkey Kong Country - Misty Menace
-Megaman X - Sigma Stage 4

And seeing that Ecco thread reminded me:
-Ecco the Dolphin - Welcome to the Machine

 

[Captain Murphy]

This is going to sound silly but the double dragon 1 and 2 nes game over music always terrified me. Street fighter 2010 inter dimensional rooms had incredibly creepy music. 8bit Serialism.