Which were your top 5 games that you played in 2019?

Doom 2016
The Messenger
Dishonored 2 (and Death of the Outsider)

...

and that's pretty much it. I've not been playing that much this past year it seems. At least, not many really memorable titles.

There's also Shadow Warrior 2, which I certainly enjoyed and would recommend, but which isn't great enough to be top 5 material

top 5 games i played for the first time this year, in no particular order

observer (surprised me.. phenominal visual design and my kind of atmosphere, with an involving and interesting plot)
plague tale
prey
evil within 2 (had a rediculous amount of fun with this)
control (remedy still cant do boss fights, and making it semi-open world was a bad idea, but i loved the story and atmosphere)

Risk of Rain 2
Return of the Obra Dinn
Slay the Spire
Enter the Gungeon
Dandara

all are pretty innovative

Played and finished a bunch but I believe these are the best I could remember:

1) Assassin's Creed Odyssey
2) Remnant: From the Ashes
3) The Outer Worlds
4) Yakuza 0
5) Hades

Godhood, Chinese parents, SKYHILL, Rimworld, A plague tale: innocence
My biggest disappointment still Guild 3, like in 2017.

Sure, let us do this! :D

This was a good year, I played about 80 games (so far!). My top 5 would be:

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition
2. Baba is You
3. The Invisible Hours
4. Frostpunk
5. One Small Fire at a Time
   Honorable mentions? Sure, I can just continue the list:
6. Guacamelee
7. Last Day of June
8. Rime
9. Forza Horizon 4
10. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun
11. Slay the Spire
12. Alan Wake
13. Memoria
14. Roundabout
15. Yoku's Island Express
16. Oxenfree

Interesting side fact: I only bought #1, #6 and #12 in this list. Games #9 and #11 were in that free 1 month "Xbox PC Game Pass", and all others were won here at Steamgifts! Thank you so much, folks, your kindness provided me with top entertainment! :D

Disappointments? Crazy Machines Elements was a lot worse than the old Crazy Machine games... And Beholder left me quite cold.

Seeing Silence warms my hearth...

My top five this year:

1. Dragon Quest XI
2. Dragon Quest Builders 2 (just the demo, but it's huge and extremely good!)
3. GNOG
4. Forgotton Anne
5. Rabisco

In alphabetical order the top 5 were the following:

Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
Mad Max
Moonlighter
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
Yakuza 0

My biggest disappointment was Katana Zero. It was just too flashy and colorful for me.

Rising Storm 2, like every year...
Dead by Daylight, it's trash but I got addicted
Insurgency:Sandstorm, War of Rights, Squad, Foxhole?... uhh I play all the milsims
Due Process Alpha build
Black Future 88 probably the only game I played that released in 2019 despite playing the beta since 2018 :/

Dragon Quest 11
Dragon Quest Builders 2
Neverwinter Nights 1
Journey
Borderlands 3

Honorable Mention Program : Wallpaper Engine, cause I still refuse to shut it off.

In no particular order
Yakuza 0
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment
Dark Souls III
Sonic Mania
Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

The best ones I've played are:

Slay the Spire
Armello
Glass Masquerade 2.

I haven't played a whole lot of games this year, to be honest, but those 3 stand out among those that I have played.

1. Dishonored 2
2. Tales from the Borderlands
3. Marvel's Spider-Man
4. Dragon Quest Builders 2*
5. Borderlands: Pre-Sequel

*Only made it to the third island in DQB2 so far, but based on that, it deserves top 5

These are the games I liked playing most this year:

1. Masquerada: Songs and Shadows
2. Samorost 3
3. Pillars of Eternity
4. Disco Elysium (ongoing, but shaping up nicely)
5. Forgotton Anne

• HITMAN 2
• AC Odyssey & Origins

And thanks to Origin Access Basic:

• Vampyr
• Tropico 6
• Frostpunk

The more I think about it I realize despite the financial difficulties 2019 has been one of the richest (if not the richest) gaming year for me and sticking to just 5 games is not doing it justice
Dishonored 2 & DotO / Prey / both Bioshock Remastered games / Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice / Tropico 4 / SoulCalibur VI
All the indie gems included in Origin Access Basic and I even was fortunate enough to get some of them again on Steam during this same year 2019
Anthem (despite the insane technical issues) / rekindling the old memories of Fifa games / I got to play the entire fantastic Dragon Age series for the first time for crying out loud
Many more my memory is failing me but ..

For me 2019 has been a blast gaming wise
Even here on SG, I did register 5 years ago but only has been active since Nov/Dec 2018 so the whole of 2019

It's hard for me to remember what I played this year specifically. Too many games to get through all the time. But here goes, in no particular order:

1. Dujanah Beautiful, surreal writing, even if the gameplay got really frustrating and weird at times. One of the best portraits of grief I've seen in any medium.
2. Marvin's Mittens The least cynical-feeling game I have played in ages. Doesn't look like much, but it's a delight.
3. Ossuary More excellent writing, for all its oddities, and the mechanic of passing on sins to progress is quite neat.
4. Technobabylon This is what I want from my Wadjet Eye games. Tidy writing, from front to back, with great characters. I liked this way better than Primordia. (Jury's out on Unavowed since I'm playing that right now.)
5. Unrest It's so strange to me that this gets bad reviews. It's got a complex fantasy world, both in terms of really cool cultural backdrops (seriously, when's the last time you played anything in fantastical India?), and in terms of navigating politics and society as different characters. Excellent moral greys, and probably the best dialogue system I've ever seen.

This is a very indie sort of list, but so be it.

Only 5? It's hard to narrow it down that much! 😅

Let's see...

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey
• Dragon Age Inquisition
• Dragon Quest XI
• My Time at Portia
• The Outer Worlds (Completely free, cheers Microsoft!)

But I also really enjoyed A Short Hike, Assassin's Creed Origins, Baldur's Gate 1+2, Chrono Trigger, Forgotton Anne, Spyro and XCOM 2 as well as playing Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles with my 6 year old niece 😊

The only disappointment was Monster Hunter World, I just couldn't get into it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i aint gonna order them

Cave Story
Slay the Spire
Yokus Island Express
Celeste
Return of the Obra Dinn

1. Pillars of Eternity
   • I used to hate story-driven RPGs with deep stat-and-skill customization until I played this game. Granted, I played it on the easiest difficulty but that doesn't diminish the rich story it has which I just soaked in. That's probably why I ended up playing it for way too long even on the easiest difficulty. I'll probably play it again when I have more time to dedicate to hunt the achievements (upon reading some, they appear to be pretty brutally unforgiving for an ARPG noob like me).
2. Spyro - Reignited Trilogy
   • Upon playing through all 3 games, I realized that I never actually finished Spyro 3 back when I was a kid. Now, almost 2 decades later, I finally did.
3. Satellite Reign
   • I love games where stealth is an option but isn't completely necessary.
4. System Shock: Enhanced Edition
   • My first SG win. It took me a while to get used to the controls (even with mouselook it was still pretty hard) but it grew on me and I just got mesmerized and lost in the sprawling world made almost 3 decades ago but is better than the level design and depth of most games today.
5. Dex
   • I don't like 2D that much so it was a surprise that I liked this. The combat left much to be desired but the story and all the side quests were great.

These are all SG wins since I am a cheapskate rarely buy games for myself.

My 5 top loves for 2019 (some of which I have committed, long-term relationships with, some of which were joyful, passing flings):

The Long Dark
Grim Dawn
Control
Lost Ember
Book of Demons

My biggest disappointment:

Fallout 4

(Not because the game is bad, but because of what I had to go through to get it to run, at all, on a rig running an i9 9900K and a 2060 RTX Super, and still got slideshow fps and crashing, after following a bunch of guides and recommendations on how to alter settings and .ini files). Really bummed me out. My old toaster was too weak to run it, my new rig is too powerful, and FO4 refuses to acknowledge my new HW even exists.