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203 games released in 2019 and reviewed here, best first.
203 reviews
Game Freak's non-Pokémon RPG turns turn-based combat into a card-and-board hybrid with a Toby Fox soundtrack — a genuinely inventive idea its critics found charming but undercooked, and whose belated 2020 PC port shipped, almost unbelievably, without a fullscreen option.
6 / 10
A Cold War-flavoured tower defense about zombies on Mars, where the tension comes from physically running crew between turrets — and where the loudest, most consistent complaint in its review history is that every mission has exactly one correct build order.
6 / 10
Fantastic combat, character variety and presentation buried under a genuinely predatory Krypt monetisation system, an always-online requirement that can lock players out of singleplayer content, and a Premium Edition that reviewers say didn't deliver what it promised.
6 / 10
A Studio Ghibli-animated, Joe Hisaishi-scored JRPG that nearly everyone agrees is gorgeous — undercut by a combat system a large, detailed share of its own fans call genuinely broken, plus a long-running, still-unresolved allegation that Bandai Namco tried to have a critical review about its data practices taken down.
6 / 10
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The first open-world One Piece game gives Luffy genuinely fun Spider-Man-style traversal across a stylised pirate island — wrapped around combat and quest design its own reviewers can't agree is satisfying or broken.
6 / 10
Slay the Spire meets Clash Royale, from the studio that would go on to make Palworld — a chaotic, likeable real-time card-and-tower-defense hybrid whose four-year abandonment and eventual, developer-explained revival is as much the story here as the game itself.
6 / 10
A genuinely educational PC repair and building business simulator with real licensed hardware, Very Positive across nearly 19,700 reviews for its detailed, hands-on component simulation — now effectively frozen in roughly 2022-era hardware after the developer shifted all further development to a sequel that launched as a permanent Epic Games Store exclusive.
6 / 10
A distinctive, XCOM-adjacent tactical spin-off of This Is the Police 2, praised for its stealth options and neo-noir atmosphere but criticized for stripping away the parent series' story, a notorious early difficulty spike, and slow, un-skippable arrest animations.
6 / 10
A roguelite immersive sim pitched as "Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA," Overwhelmingly Positive across more than 17,000 reviews — and one where a remarkably consistent, near-decade-long complaint says the promised every-run variety boils down to about five repeating mission types with reskinned enemies on later floors.
6 / 10
A free tile-building idler where four resources, a pantheon of gods, hired heroes and three separate prestige layers build a genuinely deep economy — undercut by a pacing curve that early reviewers accused of pushing spenders toward its Amber shop, and a developer who hasn't touched the game's balance since 2023.
6 / 10
A puzzle-heavy first-person dungeon crawler reviving a classic RPG name, praised for tactical combat, songs and voice work, but weighed down by a genuinely large volume of documented bugs, a puzzle-to-roleplay ratio that surprises and frustrates a substantial share of buyers, and restrictive character-building choices.
6 / 10
A Lovecraftian open-world detective game that spent nearly four years yanked off Steam entirely by a publisher lawsuit, then came back in 2024 as a self-published "Remastered" rebuild that swapped out the version some owners specifically wanted to keep -- Mostly Positive today, praised for atmosphere and mythos, criticized for repetitive investigation, weak combat, and a rocky relaunch.
6 / 10
A zombie-apocalypse city-builder and real-time strategy hybrid, Very Positive across nearly 19,000 reviews for a genuinely excellent core survival mode — undercut by an extraordinarily consistent, near-universal complaint that its campaign forces mandatory permadeath on missions lasting hours, with no manual save option, and by a development history this review found has shipped no substantial campaign updates since June 2019.
6 / 10
A Darkest Dungeon-shaped tactical RPG about surviving the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, sold as a premium game in October 2019 — and, four years later, converted in place into a free game under a different publisher's name, with a chunk of its own systems stripped out and some recent buyers reporting they couldn't get a refund.
6 / 10
A post-apocalyptic survival-RPG from the Danganronpa team, with writing and mature thematic depth reviewers consistently rank among Spike Chunsoft's best — trapped inside a clunky, menu-heavy dungeon crawler that even the story's biggest fans call the game's clear weak point.
6 / 10
A three-person studio's ambitious mash-up of Total War sieges, Stronghold-style town building and a Crusader Kings-flavoured campaign map — held back by a jittery frame rate, a threadbare interface and a developer now selling the same idea for the fourth time.
5.8 / 10
A gorgeous, atmospheric souls-like about a wanderer rebuilding a town of allies, whose stunning art, exploration and community-building ideas are consistently undercut by shallow, repetitive combat and a co-op system reviewers describe as actively broken.
5.5 / 10
A factory-automation puzzle game about programming a robotic fast-food kitchen, with a genuinely appealing concept undercut by a widely criticized, click-heavy interface and level designs a large share of reviewers say are more restrictive than genre comparisons like Factorio suggest.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely accessible 2v2 anime crossover fighter bringing together BlazBlue, Persona, Under Night In-Birth and RWBY casts — undercut by one of the most notoriously bad PC ports Arc System Works has shipped, with players independently citing the same literal 'Disconnected from PlayStation Network' error as proof of how little adaptation went into it.
5.5 / 10
A fantasy survival MMO built around the pitch of "everyone is a wizard" that hooked players for hundreds and even thousands of hours -- and whose own longest-invested fans now write reviews describing years of stalled development, dead servers and a game they keep hoping will come back to life.
5.5 / 10
A survival RTS/tower-defense hybrid set in Robert E. Howard's Conan universe, constantly and fairly compared to They Are Billions — praised by some for its more forgiving retry structure, but held back by real difficulty-curve complaints, serious save-corruption bugs, and a paywalled third hero in an already sparse roster.
5.5 / 10
A grid-placement idle card game with a genuinely original hook — where you lay cards down matters as much as which cards you own — that Playsaurus stopped supporting less than a year after launch and never returned to.
5.5 / 10
A genuinely dark, twist-heavy JRPG about a girl trapped inside a buggy, unfinished MMO, praised for stepping away from Idea Factory's usual fanservice tone — undercut by real PC optimization problems and an infamous mechanic that kills players via unmarked dialogue choices with no way to save first.
5.5 / 10
Valve's own entry in the auto-battler genre it helped popularize — actively supported for about eighteen months with real balance patches, then abandoned outright, yet still drawing over a thousand concurrent players five years later.
5.5 / 10
