Though only two Switch games scored 90 or higher, a total of 193 positively reviewed games were released for Nintendo's console in its third year on the market-a higher total than for any other platform in 2019. Once again, you can play solo or with another player via local or online co-op, including in an aggressive new "Escape Mode" featuring a three-player "suicide squad." The Ultimate Edition of the game adds a pair of characters from Halo: Reach, because why not. Developed, like its 2016 predecessor, by The Coalition, Gears 5 finds you playing as returning character Kait Diaz, who begins investigating the origins of the Locusts (and her family).
There were no good Xbox exclusives released in 2019, but the highest-scoring console exclusive (i.e., it was also available on PC, but not on PS4 or Switch) was this fifth main entry in Microsoft's bloody third-person shooter series and first to feature a female protagonist.
But the Xbox actually had one more title scoring 90 or higher in 2019 than the PS4 did, though that total (three games) was similarly a decline from the number of great Xbox games in 2018 (seven). Much like the PS4, Microsoft's console is heading for replacement by the next generation of hardware in 2020. Games are ranked by Metascore prior to rounding.
Only games with 7 or more reviews from professional critics are included in this and every other list that follows. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IIIīaldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Editions The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Interestingly, the franchise will no longer be exclusive to PlayStation consoles after the upcoming 2020 installment, though it will continue to be made by Sony. New features include a "March to October" mode that lets you speed through the regular season to get to the good stuff. MLB The Show's box cover curse may have returned-we're looking at you, Bryce Harper-the 2019 release of The Show may have been the best one yet. 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.