My personal list with My Top Games of 2019
2019 sure was an year with amazing games again, but not as much as 2018 or 2017, for me personally. This list only contains the ones that I personally like the most.
To choose the games, I picked only those I’ve finished.
Games considered/played but not good enough to be on the list (for me, personally):
- Played, didn’t like a lot for some reason (feel free to ask me why): Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Control, SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech, The Hong Kong Massacre, My Friend Pedro, Life Is Strange 2, Arise: A Simple Story, Disco Elysium, Pokémon Sword and Shield, Need for Speed Heat, Apex Legends, Tom Clancy’s The Division 2, A Short Hike, Mortal Kombat 11
- Didn’t play, but are not my style or something else (feel free to ask me why): Death Stranding, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Shenmue 3, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Kingdom Hearts III, Metro Exodus, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Breakpoint, RAGE 2, Far Cry: New Dawn, Untitled Goose Game, Days Gone, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Concrete Genie, Outer Wilds, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Astral Chain
Now then, here is the final list:
15. Yoshi’s Crafted World
A great default Nintendo platformer. Really well polished and fun to play.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Fun platforming gameplay;
- Lots of collectibles to search for;
- Cute style;
- Great for kids.
Platform: Nintendo Switch
14. Sayonara Wild Hearts
Gameplay is kinda fun but really frustrating sometimes, too fast and one hit deaths, but there are some great touching moments and the gameplay is kinda saved with the soundtrack.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Emotional moments;
- Soundtrack that fits gameplay (or if you like pop music);
- Fast to finish experiences (1 hour, in this case).
Platforms: PlayStation 4 - Nintendo Switch - iOS - Mac - tvOS
13. Assemble with Care
Awesome atmosphere set by the audio design and style. Puzzles are great and story is just cool, with a heart warming end.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Atmospheric games;
- Emotional moments;
- Great little puzzles;
- Fast to finish experiences (1 hour, in this case).
Platforms: iOS - Mac - tvOS
12. Katana ZERO
Awesome and addictive gameplay, with great pixel art and colors. Also, great comedy on the dialogues.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Fun but hard 2d combat gameplay focused on reflexes and strategy;
- Funny dialogues.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch - PC - Mac
11. Super Mario Maker 2
Amazing platformer, containing courses with the style of the best 2d Super Mario games (Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros. 3) and others.
The cool differential from the first one (and the reason I liked this one) is the campaign, which contains over 100 Nintendo-created courses with all the different Super Mario games’ styles and these are really great.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Fun as hell platforming gameplay;
- Creating courses with the Super Mario universe style and items.
Platform: Nintendo Switch
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (Campaign)
Awesome gameplay as usual on the franchise. Cool story with great characters and story with lots of action sequences.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Nice action story with great characters;
- Great gameplay with cool variety on missions;
- Excelent graphics.
Platforms: Playstation 4 - Xbox One - PC
9. WHAT THE GOLF?
Incredible gameplay with an absurd amount of cool mechanics being thrown all the time, really impressive. Lots of references to other games, movies, songs and a lot more (really, there is a lot here).
Also, awesome game to do 100% of! Never feels the same.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Really fun gameplay;
- Gameplay variety (for real);
- Homage to lots of games, movies and others;
- Cool to make 100% of the game;
- NOT a golf game;
- Cool(ish) jokes from time to time.
Platforms: Nintendo Switch - PC - iOS - Mac - tvOS - Linux
8. Luigi’s Mansion 3
An absurdly well done game with really fun gameplay, awesome exploration and collectables.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Fun gameplay;
- Lots of collectibles to search for;
- Great for kids.
Platform: Nintendo Switch
7. Blazing Chrome
An absurdly fun game, the gameplay is just the best. Really hard, but fair. Super stylish retro stuff and references to cool old games.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Fun gameplay;
- Hard games;
- Retro games.
Platforms: PlayStation 4 - Nintendo Switch - Xbox One - PC
6. A Plague Tale: Innocence
Really amazing graphics and art style with a great color palette. The gameplay is surprisingly complete with a great variety of weapons and items, integrated with interactive environments full of areas to sneak by enemies and ambush them.
The main great thing about A Plague Tale: Innocence lies on its story. It has great protagonists and secondary characters, touching moments and action scenes.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Amazing atmosphere;
- Awesome characters;
- Great narrative with great moments;
- Cool stealth focused combat;
- Excelent graphics.
Platforms: Playstation 4 - Xbox One - PC
5. Sea of Solitude
Great art style and awesome soundtrack. Tells a simple but relatable story on a very artsy cool way. Gameplay is not great, but not bad either and has some cool collectibles to find.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Cool art style;
- Awesome soundtrack;
- Story with touching moments.
Platforms: Playstation 4 - Xbox One - PC
4. Little Misfortune
Stylish (also, crazy) as hell and really unique. Great characters and cutscenes.
Don’t be fooled by the looks of it, this is a very heavy game, with touching moments, despite having great comedy moments with lots of irony.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Amazing story with absurdly heavy themes and emotional moments;
- Great comedy and irony on the dialogues.
Platforms: PC - Mac - Android
3. Devil May Cry 5
Style is really all this game is about. Everything is absurdly exaggerated, from weapons to action scenes and characters’ styles and dialogues.
The cutscenes are awesome with great soundtrack and action scenes. Combat also never feels not fun thanks to the style of everything combined.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Fun combat system;
- Great soundtrack;
- Badass cutscenes;
- Style.
Platforms: Playstation 4 - Xbox One - PC
2. Gears 5
As always on the franchise, Gears 5 has great gameplay with fun weapons to use and cool enemies to fight.
This time, compared to the previous iterations of the franchise, there is a better narrative with touching moments and more well developed characters (some of them). But there are still silly stuff everywhere, and that’s not great for me personally (but It is for fans of the franchise).
Besides having great gameplay and narrative, It has some cool open-world(ish) sections on some chapters of the campaign, which are really cool with lots of collectibles, side missions and gadgets to find.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- Story with a few cool moments;
- Fun combat with awesome guns and enemies;
- Sections of open-world(ish) exploration;
- Excelent graphics.
Platforms: Xbox One - PC
1. Resident Evil 2
Completely different from the original RE2 on the gameplay and graphics side, but keeping the greatest things It should have kept. Just an incredible job made by Capcom.
This is a truly badass videogame. Simply go play It. Do It.
Seriously.
You should play this game if you are looking for one or more of these elements:
- A seriously badass game.
Platforms: Playstation 4 - Xbox One - PC
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