The 20 Best Video Games of 2019 So Far

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – July 5, 2019

Which games impressed professional reviewers the most during the first half of the year? Above, we rank the best-reviewed videogames released between January 1, 2019 and June 30, 2019 by Metascore. If a game was released on multiple platforms, we included only the version receiving the largest total number of reviews (usually, but not always, the PS4 version). Newly released ports of games released in prior years on other platforms are excluded, unless they are substantially different from the prior release.

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86 #8 (tie): Devotion

Devotion is a first-person horror game set in a Taiwanese apartment complex in the 1980s from Red Candle, the studio behind 2017's Detention. But the new title was removed from Steam (the only place it was available) by its publisher earlier this year after gamers uncovered anti-Xi Jinping artwork hidden in the game, and it doesn't look likely to return anytime soon (if at all).

“We may have no experience of 1980s Taiwan, but Devotion carries the tang of authenticity in both the sharply observed detail of its setting and its more imaginative flourishes, including a gorgeous interactive storybook episode.” —Edge Magazine

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