Ominous Pipe Organ / Video Games

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• Operation Flashpoint has this one.
• World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade: The Opera area in Karazhan.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Ganondorf from Ocarina of Time is one of the more famous examples; as Link moves up the tower in the center of Ganon's Castle, the Ominous Pipe Organ music (which happens to be a redone and extended version of the leitmotif of the building's owner) gets louder and louder, until he reaches the top — and finds Ganondorf playing it.
  • And then there's Blizzeta's theme in Twilight Princess.
  • Ghirahim's leitmotif in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword mixes in a pipe organ. Rather than one of the big booming ones, however, it's a smaller, more playful one, which serves to emphasize Ghirahim's similar Psychopathic Manchild demeanor.
  • In Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Gibdo plays an organ during his intro cutscene, despite the fact that he's at the top of the church, far from the organ. Organ music also plays when you defeat him.
  And the dead shall rise, and the living will be their slaves. She must be stopped!
  • Continuing the tradition, Ganon's theme in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is typically played on a pipe organ when it pops up. Also, the theme for Hyrule Castle switches from a full orchestral instrumentation outdoors to a pipe organ instrumentation indoors.
  • Befitting the musical theme of Cadence of Hyrule, Ganon once again takes up the organ during his Boss Battle. He can be found practicing earlier in the game, having learned about the magical power inherent in music from Octavo.
• One of the bosses in Castle Crashers alternates between fighting you and playing a pipe organ in a church. He can't be hurt while at the organ and as he plays the organ launches bombs in increasingly complex patterns.
  • Something to note, he isn't just playing any song. He's playing Wagner's bridal march, if you listen closely, except in a minor key. This is fitting, since this particular level turns Castle Crashers into Wedding Crashers.
• Associated with Neclord in the Suikoden series.
  • In Suikoden, he plays the popular Wedding March as a funeral dirge (appropriate considering what happens to his brides).
  • While he's a general-purpose user of this, Neclord's appearance in Suikoden II is probably the crown of this trope. Entering a fog-shrouded, ruined castle on the lake's edge, surrounded by a graveyard containing the restless corpses of the castle-town's slaughtered inhabitants... ominous organ-music playing as you fight your way past undead ghouls and minor vampires, finding your way through the crumbling labyrinth of the castle's hallways, finally making your way to the top of the tallest tower, to find Neclord sitting with his back to you, playing the organ - and as he turns to face you, the music stops in mid-chord. Chilling.
  • In both games his Leitmotif (called "We Love Our Master") uses the Organ.
• The heroes of Chrono Trigger have to play a few chords on an organ to uncover the hidden passageway in a (monster-run) church. Lavos's theme is a classic example of ominous organ music.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • The final showdown with Bowser in Super Mario 64 is accompanied by an ominous solo organ piece. Hear for yourself. Bowser themes in general tend to have Ominous Pipe Organ.
  • The generic dungeon theme in Super Mario RPG is also played on a pipe organ, with a few grace piano notes thrown in. The remake stomps HARD on the gas on this one and makes it the most ominous track in the entire game.
  • The final battle against Smithy's first form in Super Mario RPG has this along with industrial mechanical sounds.
  • Super Mario RPG also has My Paradise, the theme of Monstro Town which combines ominous pipe organ music with peaceful and relaxing low tones to highlight that, while it is a town full of monsters where Culex spends his time, said monsters are friendly and it's a pretty nice place to visit.
  • Cackletta of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga has a creepy organ leitmotif, which also features in her battle themes.
  • Doopliss from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has a quick and creepy pipe organ make up part of his battle theme. He's anything BUT ominous, though. Just kind of a jerk.
  • The Castle themes from the New Super Mario Bros. games as well. New Super Mario Bros. has its own, while the more oft-used theme was introduced in New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
  • Super Mario Odyssey: The church on the moon where Bowser plans to marry Peach has some reverent organ music playing inside. But once you confront Bowser, there is a cutscene just before fighting him where the organ switches to playing more sinister music as Bowser sends Mario down a trapdoor in the church's floor to the battlefield.
• Used heavily in Chapter 9 of Drakengard, especially during the battle with Inuart and the scene in which Furiae transforms into an angelic monster and kills Inuart.
• Yggdrassil in Tales of Symphonia, including all the music when you fight him. His androgynous and angelic appearance and status as head of a Path of Inspiration only underscores the sinister.
• Tales of Phantasia has this as Background Music when you enter the cathedral that leads to Fenrir's cave.
• Possibly lampshaded in Tales of the Abyss - The first time you fight Van, he's playing a pipe organ as you walk into his room and he gives his little speech. Considering how music in general is one of the major themes of TOTA (prophecies are called 'Scores' or 'the Score', the resident Crystal Dragon Jesus is the personification of sound, various church titles and ranks include Melodist, Maestro, Conductor, Cantor, etc.) and in fact is the key to using much of Auldrant's Applied Phlebotinum, this is perhaps more justified than many of the other examples on this page.
• The Lord of Jewels 1000 in Legend of Mana has this as its boss theme.
• In Lunar: Silver Star Story (the remake), the dungeon music is replaced by Ominous Pipe Organ music between the penultimate and final bosses. It's truly great music to monologue over, as the Magic Emperor demonstrates.
  • The sequel also features ominous pipe organ music in Pentagulia.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Chaos, the Big Bad of Final Fantasy, features the Ominous Pipe Organ in his fight music. (Remakes only, the original has no boss music.)
  • The original Final Fantasy organ themist has to be Golbez in Final Fantasy IV. His theme even shamelessly steals riffs from Toccata & Fugue in D Minor. The Nintendo DS remake has this lampshaded in the sound test by having Edward, who comments on the tracks, referring to the pipe organ as the hallmark of Golbez's theme.
  • Final Fantasy VI:
    • The first track in the game, a slow, ominous buildup which lets you know that Square means business. Heck, it's even called "Omen"!
    • The semi-operatic pipe organ piece "Dancing Mad", Kefka's Final Boss music in Final Fantasy VI. "Dancing Mad" also shamelessly rips off Toccata and Fugue in D Minor in many parts, especially during the organ solo in the third movement.
    • Of course, considering the fact that the game's intro music and the music that plays on the world map before obtaining the Falcon also use an Ominous Pipe Organ, it's not surprising that the final boss music contains even more Ominous Pipe Organ.
  • Ultimecia from Final Fantasy VIII greets her visitors with "The Castle".
    • If we're talking Final Fantasy VIII, then there definitely needs to be a mention of Heresy, the theme of Garden Master NORG.
  • Kuja in Final Fantasy IX also gets "Immoral Rhythm" and "Dark Messenger". His boss, Garland, has "The Keeper of Time."
  • Also done to full effect in Final Fantasy X-2 since it's how the Big Bad commands the Weapon of Mass Destruction. An organ is also used for the ominous, frantic theme "Vegnagun Starting".
  • Also Galdes's final theme.
• Kingdom Hearts has several.
  • Forze del Male, which plays during the battle with Riku-Ansem in Hollow Bastion, and becomes a recurring Leitmotif in later games for Ansem, Seeker of Darkness.
  • "Graceful Assassin" combines Ominous Pipe Organ and For Doom the Bell Tolls into quite a dramatic tune against the (first) final boss of the game.
• One Piece's Unlimited Adventure and Unlimited Cruise games have a good one that plays whenever Chopper enters his Monster Point form. It can be heard here.
• Ramirez's theme in Skies of Arcadia begins putting on the Ominous Pipe Organ near the end — as if the ringing doom bell, the chaotic drum track, the sinister violin backdrop and the piano clinks weren't disturbing enough. It's a good clue-in to the fact that he, and not his superior Galcian, is the game's final boss.
• Castlevania games are chock-full of Ominous Pipe Organ music, with the opening of Super Castlevania IV being one of the earliest examples (mostly due to SNES's better audio capability compared to the systems before it). One of the more up to eleven examples is Chaconne C Moll from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night: No choir, no percussion, no guitar or other modern instruments, nothing but pure, multi-layered organ music.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, being the Spiritual Successor to Castlevania, also features pipe organ music, such as the one in the Creepy Cathedral area.
• One of the late-game bosses in the Nintendo DS Rhythm Game Ontamarama uses pipe organs as part of his theme music.
• In the Playstation 2 Rhythm Game Gitaroo Man, Gregorio uses a pipe organ. However, his Gitaroo isn't just the organ, but the entire cathedral you fight him in, meaning he can also summon a ghostly choir.
• Ultima VII uses fairly light and pleasant organ music as the theme for The Fellowship which ends up being a front for The Guardian's attempt to take over the world.
• Breath of Fire:
  • The dungeon music from the grand church of "St. Eva" in Breath of Fire II.
  • Elyon's battle theme in Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter. It might even fool you into thinking he's the real final boss.
• In Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
  • Big Bad Tabuu doesn't have the pipe all the way through, but one segment of his battle theme (around a minute and 14 seconds in, precisely) has it. Rather noticeable because its ethereal energy contrasts the more rock-oriented energy the rest of the theme has.
  • The remixes of the Zelda Overworld/Underworld music and Luigi's Mansion theme incorporate this as well.
• Front Mission is fond of this, with two suitably sinister organ-based tracks that play in the first two games:
  • Shallow Twilight, the music on the map that plays instead of the hopeful-sounding The General Situation once a certain plot point has been revealed, has a chorus that is nothing but a downright sinister'' theme of organ music and drums.
  • The music for the final battle in the first game, Destructive Logic, is nothing but ominous pipe organ music. Considering what the Big Bad has been doing to P.O.W.s (Like Lloyd's fiance and himself), it's appropriate.
  • Not to be outdone, the spinoff Front Mission: Gun Hazard gives us the equally chilling Nature.
  • As well as the track used for the last stretch of the game, Atlas.
• House of the Dead
  • The battle with the Magician in the second game is preceded with pipe organ music — specifically, a Suspiciously Similar Song to Toccata & Fugue in D Minor — before cutting to his own boss battle music. What's interesting is that the song actually goes on for a whole lot longer than what's played in-game.
  • The opening theme used in both 1 and 2 starts off with the organ, which is soon joined by somber bell tolling and an ominous bass a capella choir, and squares things off with some good old brass-and-drum Orchestral Bombing.
• Mega Man Legends. Organ music = Final Boss, in both games.
  • The organ music in the first game is another Bach piece called "Little" Fugue in G Minor. The first part of the battle has a faithful rendition, but they use a faster-paced remix for the One-Winged Angel round.
  • Likewise in the sequel, Geetz and Sera get similar themes. Geetz has a fast-pased techno-beat, while Sera has organs for an intro before it becomes an ominous Ethereal Choir.
• In Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Culture Shock, Sam and Max track down the Big Bad Brady Culture and discover his hideout in an abandoned theater. Culture makes his entrance playing scary music on a pipe organ as he explains his backstory through monologue. He later kidnaps Max and keeps him in his lair, leading to this line when Sam rescues Max:
  Max: Sam! Boy, am I glad to see you! Johann Sebastian here only knows how to play one song.
• Serguei Borodine in Syberia. This is a variation of the trope because Serguei himself cannot play the organ but builds a robot who has the ability to play it.
• At the end of the Musical Town stage in the SNES Sparkster, the title character encounters Axel Gear playing a pipe organ before they fight.
• The Grand Cathedral theme from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter has something like this combined with For Doom the Bell Tolls as its central component.
• Eternal Darkness uses an organ to open a secret compartment. This sequence will be important later.
• An eerie, if not completely ominous pipe organ can be heard in church interiors in The Matrix Online.
• The Perfect Run Final Boss battle in RayCrisis, aptly titled "Root of all evil".
• The Final Boss battle in Silent Hill 3, although it's not on the official soundtrack. It is, however, on the movie soundtrack, titled Samael.
• The chapel music in The 7th Guest. A different ominous organ tune is played during the "sacrifice" cutscene in the same room. Also, Stauf's leitmotif, known as "Doorbell". You can even see a skeleton playing the organ if you interact with it. Latin lyrics are included in the soundtrack version, "Chapel Pain", and they are what Brian Dutton hears just before he enters the chapel.
• Devil May Cry likes using organs in its music.
  • Listen to this, this, or this.
  • "Devil Sunday", the opening theme of the first game (extended into a sinister fugue when you enter the cathedral).
• In Live A Live, the chapter boss Leitmotif and the boss battle theme both contain organ music as your first clue that all the bosses are the same demonic entity, and the final level music and both Final Boss themes are all about the Ominous Pipe Organ.
• The adventure game Inca uses a minor pipe organ track for Aguirre's theme.
• The Disgaea series is rather fond of pipe organs, what with its demonic bent. Disgaea 3's "Fugue of Hell", Mao's leitmotif, is particularly noticeable in this regard.
• In Epic Mickey, one of these serves as a character. The Pipe Organ is found in the Lonesome Manor ballroom, and he's in a rotten mood that sent the Lonesome Ghosts packing to Bog Easy. Mickey has the option to pacify him by playing his song perfectly, which, while rather annoying, allows Mickey to climb his pipes to the next stage much more easily. Damage the keys with Thinner, however, and the organ will block off part of the ballroom with jets of steam from his pipes and sic Beetleworx Tankers on the mouse as punishment.
• Touhou:
  • Perfect Cherry Blossom, the seventh game in the series, has a very interesting example. Youmu's theme combines an organ with hard rock, and is very fast paced while still being ominous. But the thing is, not only is the character in question The Dragon rather than the Big Bad, but she's not evil in any sense of the word, even by Touhou standards. The third stage in the same game also has Ominous Pipe Organ music, which the creator himself has pointed out sounds like a Disc-One Final Dungeon.
  • On the other hand, vampire Remilia Scarlet plays this straight: in the fighting spinoff Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, her already epic, piano-driven theme song Septette for the Dead Princess gets rearranged into a masterpiece that makes liberal use of organs, violins, piano, drums and electric guitar. Most notable is the kickass organ intro at the beginning, which follows the melody throughout the song and serves to drive the point home that you're fighting against a five hundred year old devil.
• The Shin Megami Tensei series in nearly all of its incarnations has made liberal use of pipe organ music, the most universally consistent being the music played during the Dark Cathedral fusion room:
  • Main series:
    • Here's the theme from Shin Megami Tensei I.
    • And the one from Shin Megami Tensei II.
    • Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne takes this trope to an especial extreme.
    • Shin Megami Tensei IV:
    • The Mido app re-uses the theme from SMT I, but cycles through the ones from the other two games after each fusion. It also has the theme from Majin Tensei II for when you perform a special fusion.
    • The final boss theme for the Chaos and Neutral routes begins with loud, in-your-face organ music, followed by a solo.
    • Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse has yet another Cathedral of Shadows theme, but also cycles through the themes from the first three games with each fusion.
    • Shin Megami Tensei V actually includes a cutscene of Nahobino playing an organ solo to fuse demons.
  • Devil Summoner sub-series:
    • The first game has Bach's "Two-Part Invention No. 13 played on the organ while in the Goumaden.
    • The Raidou Kuzunoha games have this theme, which is ominous even by the series' standards.
• The Organists from Brütal Legend are little more than a ghostly pipe organ on wheels.
• The final boss of Pikmin has this in his background music. Not quite as ominous as many of the other examples, but way more ominous than any other music in the game.
• Mother 3 has an organ tune play within the Forest Prayer Sanctuary. That alone isn't too ominous, unless you take your time listen through the whole song, at which point you may hear that it's a Dark Reprise of the "There's a Railway in Our Village!?" , the song that plays at the beginning of Chapter 4 after the Pigmasks' influence has taken over the town.
• Duke Hermeyen of The Last Remnant has an organ-heavy Leitmotif. It's scary.
• Part of the Boss Rush in Stella Deus: The Gate of Eternity takes place on top of a giant ominous organ which also happens to be the control panel for a massive device that's intended to bring about The End of the World as We Know It.
• False King Allant of Demon's Souls has one during his boss fight.
• The first boss theme of 'RefleX Crazy Goddes Virgo, the sixth boss Imperial Gaurd - Scutum - and the Climax Boss theme Raiwat Virgo -Type R-'' are good examples.
• Resonance of Fate plays organ music accompanied by an evil choir while you storm the Basilica.
• Blazblue have some organ tracks obviosly mixed with metal but some can hardly be called ominous such as the upbeat The Road to Hope while on the other hand Howling Moon and White Requiem are slightly straighter.
• And then there is Deathsmiles with its regular boss theme and the final boss theme Hell's Emperor.
• The King's Quest games have several examples.
  • Rosella can play a cheery tune on her own on a dusty organ in the hidden tower of an old house in King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella; Later, a set of sheet music contains a minor-key piece that unlocks a drawer holding the key to the crypt.
  • In King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder!, Mordack's castle has a grotesque pipe organ that can play itself. The tune it plays is repeated during "Battle with Mordack" when he shows up.
  • In 'King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow'', the ominous pipe organ music plays a grotesque version of Lohengrin's Bridal Chorus when the Grand Wazir Alhazred is getting married to Cassima!Shamir... but in pretense! Give it a listen here! The same ominous pipe organ music plays during the first half of "Stopping the Wedding".
• The music to Ted's scenario in I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream contains an organ in the background, fitting well with the Haunted Castle he's exploring.
• Boogie Wings has a visible pipe organ on which a villain is playing Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
• In Resident Evil 4, Salazar's battle music uses this alongside Ominous Latin Chanting.
• The Church of the Machine in Obsidian has a relatively calm track to it while you're exploring. In contrast, once the mechanical spider is turned on to put a programming puzzle into play, a somewhat frantic organ track starts. As the crossover chip gets its three sections filled in, it speeds up and has drums, a choir, and a bassoon added to it.
• Kirby:
  • Drawcia, the final boss of Kirby: Canvas Curse, has Ominous Pipe Organ music as her battle theme. At least for her first form, anyway.
  • Queen Sectonia's first form in Kirby: Triple Deluxe features pipe organ music that eventually adds in an electric guitar for epic, and terrifying, effect.
  • As a tribute to Drawcia, Kirby and the Rainbow Curse gives Claycia some pipe organ segments in her battle theme, which is otherwise made up of Orchestral Bombing.
  • The Heart of NOVA battle in Kirby: Planet Robobot mostly uses ominous industrial and techno sounds, but it contains some powerful pipe organ chords for dramatic effect. Similarly, the music during the fight against the Star Dream NOVA has some extended organ parts in the background.
  • The third phase of Void Termina's battle in Kirby Star Allies is a full pipe organ remix of the first phase's theme. The final phase/Void Soul begins with a pipe organ before turning to an electric guitar remix.
  • The final boss theme in Kirby and the Forgotten Land contains a considerable amount of organ, but it's downplayed in that the rest of the piece is a combination of Orchestral Bombing and Creepy Jazz Music.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • A creepy, if not disturbing example exists in Sonic Adventure 2/Battle's Chao Garden. A special organ jingle plays instead of the designated one for your Chao's new alignment if it evolves into a Chaos-type
  • In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), an organ plays in the scene where Mephiles kills Sonic.
• A reed organ with fake front pipes appears in Assassin's Creed III during The Mad Doctor's Castle. When climbed on to ascend through the ceiling it produces a brief cluster of notes (which is unlikely, since organs don't produce sound unless they've been turned on and one or more stops are drawn).
• A occasional recurring element in music from the Soul Series. Hellfire, the Final Boss theme of SCII which is played during the battle against Soul Edge's true form, Inferno, may be the starting point of it. SCIII is not to be left behind in this regard, with Forsaken Sanctuary. Sacred Dawn, the Final Boss theme from SCV played during the battle with Elysium, Soul Calibur's own Inferno-equivalent, has an organ which is more in the background.
• The Big Bad of the first Pokémon Ranger game has an unabashedly sinister organ leitmotif. A longer version plays before the Final Boss... whose theme also happens to be an example. Worth noting is that the device he used to control the legendary beasts, including the final boss in question, Entei, actually resembles an electronic organ, and is operated by "playing" it!
• Team Plasma from Pokémon Black and White is musically associated with organs, most audible in the grunts battle theme and N's castle.
• Ultra Necrozma's theme from Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon.
• In Jimmy Neutron vs. Jimmy Negatron, Negatron's first appearance is accompanied by a Standard Snippet of the beginning bars of Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
• In Dungeons of Dredmor, some Background Music tracks use this. "The Forsaken", which starts with a lone organ but later adds a harp and strings, and in "Death Walks Among You", the organ only comes up 2 minutes in, near the end. The songs are unusually creepy considering the humorous tone of the rest of the game.
• The seventh and final world of HarmoKnight, Baroque Volcano, is a mix of this trope and Lethal Lava Land. The levels look like your standard lava level, but organ pipes are partially submerged in the lava and the Mini-Boss comes out of a giant organ (and is knocked back into it after the rematch). Additionally, the map screen's Variable Mix and the Mini-Boss theme use pipe organ as their main instrument.
• Shadow Devil's theme from Mega Man X5, which is a remix of Dr. Wily's theme from Mega Man.
• The final boss theme from Zaxxon's Motherbase 2000.
• The newest version of the Parasite Eve theme, Primal Eyes, used in Third Birthday adds some pretty ominous organ to the original combination of creepy piano and electric guitar riffing. YMMV on whether it adds to the creepiness, or just makes it obnoxious.
• Dragon Quest VIII's Maella Abbey uses the non-ominous church theme when you first visit it. Then, when you meet the Templars, the music is replaced by this slightly creepier tune.
• In Mystery Case Files: Escape from Ravenhearst, Charles Dalimar himself plays a sinister version of the series' theme song on a pipe organ during the climax.
• The menacing theme of the Darkest Lord in Miitopia very prominently features pipe organ music combined with Ominous Latin Chanting. The opening of the Final Boss theme also features one.
• The music for the Mausoleum levels in Cuphead combine an organ and theremin for a spooky effect.
• The theme of Hilltop Mausoleum in the original MediEvil features an organ as the main instrument. It fits pretty well, considering the place it plays. There's even an organ physically present in that level at one point.
• The intro of the theme of the Mausoleum in the Forsaken Province from Gauntlet: Dark Legacy features an ominous pipe organ. The previous level, the Haunted Cemetary, also features a one-minute-long organ solo in its second part.
• In Them's Fightin' Herds, some of Oleander's Variable Mixes include a pipe organ. Fitting for the character who wields dark magic and a demon sealed in a Tome of Eldritch Lore. Downplayed as she's not actually evil, just scary.
• Epic Battle Fantasy has at least one in each game after the Early-Installment Weirdness of EBF1.
  • EBF2 has Organ Jaws, a classically sinister usage of Ominous Pipe Organ.
  • EBF3 has DiVINe MaDNEss, featuring a more frantic and chaotic take on the trope.
  • EBF4 has Fallen Blood, leading off with the organ before taking a turn for the heavier.
• Since it's a game centered around religion, more specifically Catholicism, The Binding of Isaac wouldn't be complete without its share of pipe organ in the soundtrack. Special mentions go to "My Innermost Apocalypse" and ''Be Done''.
• In Hollow Knight, Grimm's battle music has this.
• In Luigi's Mansion 3, ominous organ music plays whenever you enter a room where a Boo is hiding.
• In Brave Fencer Musashi when the town is being stalked by Vambees, half-vampire-half-zombies that come out only at night, the normally happy village music is replaced with an pipe organ tracked called The Terrible Plan of the Vambees. The graveyard in Meandering Forest also has an almost ridiculously intense pipe organ intro that doesn't appear on the soundtrack.
• The 2015 point and click video game Goosebumps: The Game of the Goosebumps franchise has the "Mall Music" with a short electronic organ chords are heard playing.
• Balan Wonderworld: The evil Lance's first appearance in the first level of the demo is accompanied by sinister pipe organ music.
• Demon's Crest features a dark and moody soundtrack that makes liberal use of pipe organs.
• The Town with No Name:
  • Dramatic pipe organ music plays when you choose to visit the church. Ironically, neither the church nor the priest inside are really "evil," though they are just as weird as the rest of the game.
  • The infamous "You have the right time?" cutscene. One side character asks another if he has the time. The second man looks at his watch as a tinkly music box tune plays. The tune quickly switches to a dramatic, cacophonous, and very loud reprise on organ before returning to the music box for a split second at the end. The second man simply says "No."
• CarnEvil:
  • The Haunted House has an epic, dramatic pipe organ tune for its Background Music. It's the only level theme that plays throughout its entire level, including the boss fight.
  • A subtle, but sinister organ tune plays in the background when Tökkentäkker speaks to the player just before the Final Boss. Interestingly, the organ is part of the actual audio file of Tökkentäkker's voice.
• Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen: The 12th floor of Darm Tower features an ominous organ tune called "Devil's Wind" that drains Adol's HP and prevents him from progressing until he smashes one of the pillars on the outer gallery.
• In Returnal, one of the bosses, Hyperion, is encountered by Selene while he is playing an organic-looking pipe organ, which he continues to play for his entire boss fight. As the fight progresses, it becomes increasingly obvious that he is playing a twisted and slow version of "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult.
• In Everybody Edits Universe , "Ritual Quest", the spooky music played around Halloween begins with a pipe organ.
• In ULTRAKILL, before you face down Gabriel a second time during Act II, you hear and eventually see him playing the church organ ominously, before stopping suddenly to give his threatening, unhinged pre-battle monologue. He's playing Bach's "I call to You, Lord Jesus Christ", though marred by him practically pounding on the keys from his sheer, seething fury as he waits for you to arrive.
• In Vernal Edge, a faint pipe organ melody plays during the Game Over sequence.
• Dark Half heavily associates the instrument with Rukyu, most notably in the music that plays inside his castle.

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