Royalty-free game sound effects for menus, UI, combat, and trailers
This page is tuned for game developers who need fast access to menu loops, UI feedback, retro cues, combat impacts, and cinematic trailer sounds. Instead of dropping you into a giant undifferentiated library, it groups the most relevant tags for gameplay systems, polish passes, and launch assets. 1,161 matching sounds available right now.
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Indie studios, mobile game teams, prototypes, live-service games, and interactive tools.
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1,161
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6
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Why this page fits this search intent
Fresh catalog data shows 644 matching sounds for this collection, including 241 electronic-tagged sounds, 232 game-tagged sounds, 117 cinematic sounds, 78 retro sounds, and 66 UI sounds.
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Recommended starting sounds
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Mouse Click Sounds
A strong fit for menus, inventory interactions, launcher flows, and button feedback.
Simple Boom Explosion
Useful when you need a direct combat hit or weapon impact without over-designing the mix.
Cinematic Impact Boom
Best for trailer edits, level-complete moments, boss reveals, and tension-building transitions.
Fetch game-ready sounds via the API
Use one request to search royalty-free UI, retro, and cinematic sounds, then pipe the results into your editor, game engine, or content pipeline.
curl -G https://api.lotsofsounds.com/api/v1/sounds -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" --data-urlencode "tags=game,ui,cinematic" --data-urlencode "limit=12" --data-urlencode "page=1"Sound effects for games
1,161 soundsAbadoned Steampunk House Dark Atmosphere
Abadoned Steampunk House Dark Atmosphere
Storm cloud
Space ambience: Storm cloud, atmospheric. Wind audio, sfx, dark. Recorded and mastered through audio software, no factory samples. Made as an experiment into sound design. Recorded in Ireland. Made by MSFX
Mine Machines
Mine Machine Atmosphere
Cold Wind Winter Animals Snow Birds Water Atmo Ambiance Atmosphere Mastered Surround
Cold Wind Winter Animals Snow Birds Water Atmo Ambiance Atmosphere Mastered Surround
Action, Thrill, Atmosphere
Hello out there This sound is made with Arturia Keylab 61. The software is called Analoglab 3, and was included in the buy of the keyboard. Hope u like it I woud raally like to listen/see what you have done with the sound. so please Notifi me. :D :D
Alone walk in field
Alone walk in field - Piano Keys Dark Dramatic Sound Wind Soundscape Atmosphere
Drone Horror Music 03
Royalty free Horror sound design made in fl studio. Can be used everywhere (Would appreciate & be very thankful if you credit me or send project link)
Stems 4 (NOSTALGIC MALL)
(Flare sound at 70 BPM in B major with reverb and low-pass filter effects) Hi! I'm sharing the "NOSTALGIC MALL" stems pack. It's a completely free and public domain sound collection that you can use in any project. I've attached a sample track mixing the stems. You can also use them individually. There are no usage requirements, but I'd be very happy if you shared your project with me and/or credited me as "NotMeat2020 Beats" in it. If you feel any of the audio is of low quality, contact me at a
8 bit game loop 001 simple mix 1 short 120 bpm
More loops and music on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQeNG-aKqZI Donations directly to me are welcome at this link below, I appreciate it. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josefpres1 This sound can be combined with other sounds in the pack. Otherwise, it is well usable up to 120 bpm. Subscribe my youtube channel :-)for new samples https://youtu.be/FZhu2RkAXvc?t=17 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/simplesamplesweb
waiting for - mellow cinematic loop
Mellow loop.
brighthrsk music chunk
Piece of fx processed electronic creativity product on musical and sound manipulating field. Arpeggiated flute, and stuff. I forgot how it was created, it could also be someone else's sample. I'll will remove it if I'm required to do so.
Moxid-1A
Made with music program, fun to do ;)
8 bit game loop 004 simple mix 1 long 120 bpm
More loops and music on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQeNG-aKqZI Donations directly to me are welcome at this link below, I appreciate it. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josefpres1 This sound can be combined with other sounds in the pack. Otherwise, it is well usable up to 120 bpm. Subscribe my youtube channel :-)for new samples https://youtu.be/FZhu2RkAXvc?t=17 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/simplesamplesweb
SUGGESTION 7
An uplifting musical loop.
Ambient Me
I took an image that represents me, and ran it through the VirtualANS. It sounds like some kind of loading sound that becomes sparkly-sounding and retro.
Fast Synth Sound
A rhythm midi made at the keyboard then processed twice with DN-e1 virtual synthesizer in MAGIX Music Maker daw and the two voices stacked together.
Choir loop
This is another old music piece I did. I use a vocal synthesizer. Please feel free to use them however you like. If you could show me the finish product, that would be epic! I'd love to hear it!
Space Factory
Tascam DR-05X SFX conversion Edited: Adobe + FXs + Mastered Sound and loops https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/ Music https://soundcloud.com/user-174290723
darkbeta
Dark electronic instrumental. Thanks for listening :)
loop_dystopian_future_2020-12-10-8 030-092
Musical loop that'd mesh well to a videogame or film. Kinda techo, kinda retro, kinda industrial cityscape feeling.
Chippy Song Thing
Chiptunish beat/song thing.
Temple in Electric Shadow
Sheet music based on spooky and dark tones. From these came the ambient sound installation vision. SFX conversion Edited: Adobe + FXs + Mastered Sound and loops https://freesound.org/people/szegvari/ Music https://soundcloud.com/user-174290723
Blinking Forest [Electro]
Background Piano Music, but with electricity
Chased Player
Loop chase music from a game I created. Free use. Musica de perseguisao em loop de um jogo que eu criei. Uso livre.
BAS-23022014 - Game Loop 1
Game Loops 1 ------------------------------------------------------------- You may use these loops freely if you think they're usefull. I made them in Nanostudio with the Eden's synths (Loops also are very easy to make in nanostudio (=Freeware!)) I edited the mixdown afterwards with oceanaudio, ;normalise effect for maximum DB. If you want to use them for any production or whatever thats ok, they are public domain. 22 .mp3 Loops bye. --------------------------------------
tGdR808X1284
Loop from our last session (https://soundcloud.com/tonux-gix/journey-to-dusk-yemptiness-2). MIDI/OSC lines generated with Pure-Data and then rendered it in Muse-sequencer using Deicsonze and ZynAddSubFX synths.
cartoon character dance - 120 bpm
A BeepBox experiment: an echoing rhythmic yet erratic looped synth note sequence gives the impression of an odd cartoon character or game character dancing or moving about rapidly. 120 bpm, 4/4, B major
- africa space music alien dance loop 100BPM Mastered _01
africa space music alien dance loop 100BPM Mastered abstract industrial mouth voice music loop I recorded my mouth voice sounds and used Yellofier. Edited: Adobe + FXs + Mastered
8 bit game loop 004 only organ short 120 bpm
Twitter https://twitter.com/samples_simple @samples_simple More 8 bit game loops free on my youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLandMaVlYc&list=PL9BdtoyT75AXTALaP89QEwyPF2Dahr-9k&index=9 Donations directly to me are welcome at this link below, I appreciate it. https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/josefpres1 This sound can be combined with other sounds in the pack. Otherwise, it is well usable up to 120 bpm. Subscribe my youtube channel :-)for new samples https://youtu.be/FZhu2RkAXvc?t=17
Electronic Minute No 348 - Almost a loop
A little something that happened today. Reverb and delay are doing it...
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FAQ about sound effects for games
What kinds of game sounds are in this collection?
This collection is anchored around gameplay-friendly tags like game, retro, ui, interface, battle, notification, electronic, and cinematic. In the current catalog, that maps to 644 matching sounds, including 232 game-tagged sounds and 117 cinematic sounds.
Can I use these sounds inside a game engine or app pipeline?
Yes. Lots of Sounds is built for API-driven discovery, so you can search, preview, and route 644 currently matching sounds into Unity, Godot, Unreal, web games, launchers, or internal tooling instead of manually sorting local packs.
Why create a dedicated games page instead of just a generic sound library?
Game teams search with workflow intent: menu sound effects, retro game UI sounds, trailer booms, battle impacts. A dedicated landing page maps that intent to the underlying catalog and creates a much clearer answer for search engines and LLMs than a generic browse page.
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