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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87 #6 (tie): Sunless Skies

Sharing the same alternate Victorian London world as Fallen London and Sunless Sea (to which Skies is a direct sequel), this Gothic horror/exploration RPG from Failbetter Games pits you as the captain of a rail-less locomotive that can move through interplanetary space. (Let's see Hyperloop try that.)

“A wonderfully refined sequel that takes everything that was great about the original and expands and improves upon it, making for a much more accessible experience for everyone.” —Metro GameCentral

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