BGE Off-Season: Game of the Year: 2019

[This Old Neon]

The "BEST GAME EVER!!!" Project's Off-Season: Game of the Year series will be a simple exploration of the best games from recent years. It can often be difficult to remember which games came out in which years, so reflecting on what we've played and then compiling lists here can help hone our collective memories.

These threads will be organized in three sections:

1. long lists (a list of all the great games that came out in a given year),
2. short lists (narrowing it down to the ones you genuinely think are the best), and
3. the overall Game of the Year.

The administration will make an effort to compile everyone's picks for these three sections into the main post, so we can see which games float to the top, which games make the cut, and the kinds of difficult decisions people had to make in selecting an overall favourite.

2019

Long List



Short List



Game of the Year

[Kong Wen]

This year's lists are obviously going to be incomplete for now. There are still games coming out.

Here's what I've played from 2019 so far, and they're all good, so this might as well double as my long list.

Long List

Baba Is You (Switch)
Beat Saber (PSVR)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch)
Guildmaster Story (Mobile)
Langrisser (Mobile)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)
The Powerpuff Girls: Monkey Mania (Mobile)

Short List

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (PS4)
Beat Saber (PSVR)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch)
Langrisser (Mobile)
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)

Game of the Year (so far)

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch)

[MerlinDrazziw]

Long List:

• Castlevania Anniversary Collection (Switch)
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)
• Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy (Switch)
• Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (Switch)
• Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (Switch)
• ...

Short List:

• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)
• Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy (Switch)
• ...

GotY: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)