For the most part, I'm not too into music. Hence, I don't listen to a lot of albums. I've wanted to get more into it for the sake of inspiration as music fuels the fire of inspiration, but most things just don't stick so it's difficult to find my spot. Most of the albums - if it's fair to call them that - I listen to tend to be movie or game soundtracks, most of them are a little forgettable once the media is over, or just generally not something I'd listen to on their own time.
Two games mark the exception.
Black Mesa and Ultrakill.
The TL;DR is that they're both full of emotion and if you won't play the games, you should at least listen to their soundtracks, as they're absolutely beautiful and emotionally charged.

First I want to speak about Ultrakill's Soundtrack, also known as Heaven Pierce Her, I believe? I love how every layer has a different feeling in it's music to really help them stand out. But I think a few stand out songs are War Without Reason (That name goes hard as fuck by the way), Death of God's Will, The Fire is Gone, and Tenebre Rosso Sangue.
First, War Without Reason. It opens up to an immediate panic - You understand why if you play or see the level's opening - before shifting into this more over the top yet... Melancholic sound? One that may seem out of place if you aren't aware of the lore behind the Earthmover and it's role in the Final War. Then it shifts to a much harsher tone because this is still an over the top FPS game.
Death of God's Will. Like every other song here, this goes hard as fuck. The rivalry between you and the game's protagonist (This is a 2nd person story, by the way!) and his desperation is on full display in an absolutely beautiful fashion and it's a song that continues to live rent free in my head. It's just as interesting that the game's composer - Hakita - had to finish this song the day Act 2: Imperfect Hatred came out, which he believes allowed the song's emotion to come through.
You'd notice The Fire is Gone is not as... 'Loud' or over the top as the other songs. Rather, it's very mellow and has an undertone of finality. Despite the song being the first one in the game you're likely to hear, it's the title screen. For that reason, many interpret it as a 'calm before the action' but it's much better than that. I'd love to explain why this fits so well with the lore, but I'd rather not ruin the magic of pairing this game's music to it's story. It certainly gives me visions of how this game might end, likely the only way a story like this really can end.
Tenebre Rosso Sangue? You're not getting a deep explanation about this one from me. It just goes hard as fuck, harder than any song I've listened to, if this song was a man, it'd have 12 long, girthy and veiny penises to bend you over with. It goes hard and doesn't stop going, it just sounds cool as fuck. And considering it's for the hardest level in the game, - Wait of the World - it'd BETTER go hard as fuck. This is one of few songs not composed by Hakita, but rather, KEYGEN CHURCH.

Okay, so, as it turns out, I have less to say about Black Mesa's OST despite mentioning more songs. I guess I'm just an Ultrakill Shill.
Black Mesa's OST is so full of passionate emotion like the dispair of On a Rail, the fear of Unforeseen Consequences (Unfortunately cut from the game) as you get some time to let the disaster sink in. Or the tragedy of Resonance, or how the opening songs Inbound (Parts 1-3, replacing Half-Life's original Vague Voices) all have this undertone of "Something's going to go wrong." And, one I believe is underrated, the short, disturbed nature of Power Up.
I feel like even the combat music is capable of telling a story about the Black Mesa Incident.
We've Got Hostiles, the way it sounds is this badass preparation for combat, this feeling of being in control. In the context of the game however, it has the opposite feeling as the song is recontexualized. It's not you who's in control, it's the invading Military.
Surface Tension 1, more desperate as the incident's over a day old and the facility's become a war zone with four conflicting factions. Surface Tension Uncut has this badass air of terror to it as the military is completely losing the war over Black Mesa.
Then it ends with the defeat of Forget About Freeman.
All of these inspired by thoughts on a storyline about Agent 4 being left behind, and why she's never reappeared in the series since her introduction, and I became incredibly interested in the idea of being able to tell a story just from a music playlist so I assembled a few songs from the Black Mesa and Half-Life Soundtracks to do just that, and I believe I did a good job.
I'm very curious about what would happen if I allowed someone to listen to it with no or minimal context and allowed their imaginations to have free reign; what story that may create in someone's mind.
Because for me, it was quite a long one that I'm excited to write. 'Eventually'.
If you'd like to listen to it, just DM me on fedi and I guess I'll send you a link. After, if you want to know what exact story I'd conjured up in cooperation with the music, I'd be willing to tell you; I'm fairly confident you can pinpoint each song to every exact event in it.
This isn't just an offer for you, it's an offer for anyone else reading but the playlist is 19 or 20 songs and about an hour I imagine, so I don't expect most people would be too interested.