While Death Stranding may have been (by far) the buzziest PS4 exclusive of 2019, Sony's annual baseball franchise scored the better reviews. Neither of those games were exclusive to Sony's console. With the PlayStation 4 entering its final year, just two of its games scored 90 or higher in 2019-down from seven the previous year. Now, let's take a look at the best games of 2019 by platform. Rounding out our top 5 highest-scoring games of 2019 was the latest Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Shadowbringers. It's not even a sequel, for that matter, but is instead that rarest of things: a terrific new IP (in this case, by FromSoftware, the team behind Dark Souls series and Bloodborne).

In that case, what was 2019's best wholly original release? That honor falls to our overall #4-ranked title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which is definitely not a port of any previous game. Perhaps you disagree with that classification. But 2019's next-next-next-generation version of RE2 is different enough in every aspect to merit calling it a new game rather than just another port. Obviously, a game with that title was released in the past- nearly 22 years ago, as it happens. So, what was our best new game of 2019? The year's #3-ranked release, Resident Evil 2. It was also the first year since 2016 that no game scored above 93.Īnd several of 2019's highest-scoring releases were new ports of previously released titles, including the year's #1-ranked release, Divinity: Original Sin II (reaching the Switch in 2019 after prior releases in 20 on other platforms), as well as the #2, which was the belated PC version of Red Dead Redemption, arriving a year after its console brethren. In 2019, only nine titles scored 90 or higher, compared to 17 such games in 2018. Well, with a pair of next-generation consoles now looming on the horizon, that supply appears to be drying up. 7 reviews)Ī year ago, we talked about the wealth of great games that had been released in 2018.

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