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

My top 5 list of the games I played in 2019 :

• Duck Season PC
• SCUM
• ATOM RPG
• theHunter Call of the Wild
• We Happy Few

Oof, I played many amazing games this year, so I'll do a top 10 instead:

1. Resident Evil 2 Remake
2. Zelda: Breath of the Wild
3. Control
4. A Plague Tale: Innocence
5. Inside
6. Star Wars: Jedi - Fallen Order
7. Ys Origin
8. What Remains of Edith Finch
9. Castlevania I-IV
10. The Last Door

In order:

• Sayonara Wild Hearts
• Florence
• Samorost 3
• What Remains of Edith Finch
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

1. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011) – Wasn't really expecting much, but this game swept me away. Had a good time playing it and can't wait to replay with different choices.
2. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015) – I was expecting meme material when I went in, and the game surprised me with how into it I got, and couple scenes really stuck with me on a deeper level.
3. Little Nightmares (2017) – The aeshetic, the tension, this game was a treat.
4. WATCH_DOGS 2 (2016) – While I agree with the complaints about repetitive missions and the story, I just really enjoyed exploring the city. I was just acting as a tourist.
5. Beholder (2016) – Nice visuals mixed with a heavy subject, it just appealed to me immediately.
   Honorable mention: Resident Evil 4 (2005) – All else be damned, Leon is hilarious.

Added the year of release for each game just for fun, really bringing it home how late to the party I am with some of these games. :D I replayed several games on new platforms this year, but I resisted the urge to take any of those into account when thinking about this question. I was amazed to realize how many games came to mind and culling them down to top five was a challenge.

As for disappointments... There sure were a handful of those but I'm only mentioning top three so I'll have mentioned more positives than negatives, bring some of that positivity vibe to the new year. :P

1. Until Dawn (2015) – I was very interested in this game when it was announced and while I did get it late, I also put off playing it specifically because I thought I'd be very into it. I guess I went in with too high expectations because I was severely disappointed in what I got.
2. The Council (2018) – Refreshingly original approach to the cinematic gaming experience that fell utterly flat into a trainwreck by the end.
3. The Witcher (2007) – Just couldn't get past how much I hated the clunky controls and the battle system. Ended up just wanting it to be over quickly.

Like OP, I usually don't play games right when they release, as my backlog is large enough to wait on better sales for newer titles (unless they end up in a bundle!). Which is probably why I was a bit late on playing some classics, now that I look back at 2019.

1. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
2. Dark Souls III
3. NieR:Automata
4. God of War
5. My Time at Portia

Honorable mentions would go to Finding Paradise, Rakuen, and A Hat in Time.

Fortunately I can't think of (or just don't have) any games that I found disappointing. There were games that paled in comparison to other games I've played, sure, but none that seemed inherently bad.

Atlas
Arma 3
Age of Empires 2 HD

I almost wanted to list the 5 oldest games I have in my library just to spite a specific individual. :)

Sadly I don't have the time for that, and each year I naturally gravitate towards trying out the new releases of the year, so you're getting an only 2019 list, alas. :P

1. Hypnospace Outlaw
2. Risk of Rain 2
3. Baba Is You
4. The Legend of Bum-Bo
5. Nowhere Prophet

I didn't really play as much in 2019, but here were a couple games I enjoyed in 2019 (no particular order):

• Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes - Had a lot of fun messing around with it despite how small it is
• Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter - Really loved how intense the game was. Always felt like I was in an impossible situation but would some how get through it
• SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell - Was fun trying to find all the hidden beer cans in each level and also figuring out best way to get a fast enough time. Really fun if you like first person parkour challenges
• Minit - Really enjoyed the simplicity of the game. Reminded of the first Zelda game. The timer gives tension, but because you have unlimited tries, you can still explore the world
• Prologue for a Vacant Kingdom - Technically just a free demo of a game in development, but was still lots of fun an really looking forward to the full game

ETS2
Anno 1404
AdCap
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A Plague Tale: Innocence
Observation
Sekiro
Detroit: Become Human
Pistol Whip

1. Tabletop Simulator
2. Barotrauma
3. The Outer World
4. Minecraft
5. Totally Accurate Simulator

although, I am trying to quit video games, (or the very least lessen my time spent playing).
Ive ended up watching youtube videos A LOT instead, which is equally bad...

who wants to quit games with me? raise your hand.

Ni no kuni 2
Rakuen
Changed
Shenzhen I/O
Wizard of Legend

Mad Max
Call of duty 4 remaster
Superflight
Tiny Echo
Lantern

I didn't play a single thing that came out this year, but I've still managed to have some extremely memorable experiences, and I've played everything from newer PC games to stuff for the Famicom Disk System.

• Broken Reality - I've always loved exploration from gigantic worlds in video games to old ladies' houses in meatspace when I'm delivering their prescriptions. This is more of the former, and it is GORGEOUS, but more than that, it's a satire of social media that is both hilarious and panic-inducingly saddening. This is the best thing I've experienced in years.
• Transistor - I went into this expecting Bastion 2, and was quickly disappointed. Then, I stopped being stupid and started judging it on its own merits, and I loved it. It's such a surreal experience, and the combat system is equally so, but very engaging. Like Bastion, it forces you to experiment in its extra little training areas, and they are BRILLIANT. I even love their atmosphere; there I was on a twilit beach covered in the oil of all the robots I'd slaughtered, half-stopped in time, humming some traditional Hawaiian tune, and I just had this, "What the HELL am I even DOING!?" moment. It's like one long fever dream. A LUCID fever dream that I came to master.
• Tengami - A Point-and-Click Adventure that's filled with beautiful gradients, and functions like a pop-up book drawn in traditional Japanese artwork, and if that's not enough for you, the score was composed by the legendary David Wise. The puzzles were pretty engaging, too.
• Super Mario Bros 3.75 Torva Edition/3.87 Burst Shoes Edition - Aubrey Hakomi is my spirit animal; these hacks have tight level design, but what I absolutely love about them is that they're mostly black with some bold colors as accents. I just can't get enough of this aesthetic, and here it is in full, relentless force; my own dark rainbow wonderland.
• Mega Man 4: Voyage - Another rom hack, but you wouldn't know it; almost everything has been changed. The music is all original, there are new enemy behaviors (including bosses), new graphics; it's a technical marvel. This thing stands today where Dragon X Omega did 15 years ago; it's that revolutionary.

Addendum: I totally forgot that Yakuza Kiwami 2 is something that I played this year. I love the Yakuza series, and this was an excellent entry, though I had to take a little time to get used to it. Not sure if this or Zero is my favorite out of the 3 I've played, but it's a strong contender in an already strong series. I'd say that this probably bumps out Mega Man 4: Voyage; I'm not good at numbered rankings.

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1. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
2. 428: Shibuya Scramble
3. Unavowed
4. Concrete Genie
5. Max Payne 3

Honourable mentions:
Star Wars: Republic Commando, Way of the Passive Fist, DOOM 3, Vampyr, Torchlight II, BUTCHER, My Friend Pedro, The Secret of Monkey Island

Biggest disappointments:
A Tale of Caos - My very first SteamGifts win that I only got around to play in 2019 but fucking hell it was terrible.

Synth Riders
Beat Saber
Pistol Whip
Vox Machinae
Audica