GAMINGbible’s Games Of The Year 2019: Staff Picks

By now, you've hopefully seen our 25 Greatest Video Games Of 2019, either on these very pages or in video form on our Facebook page, on Twitter, or in our Snapchat Discover Edition. If not, please, go and check out that list, and join with us to toast what has been a pretty decent year for video games.

As good as 2018? As 2017? We can argue about that another time. What's certain is that every member of the GAMINGbible team has their own opinions, and their own favourites of the year. And it's with these individual top 15s, with scores assigned to each position, that we ended up with our overall list of 25 - topped, as if the below doesn't make it clear, by Remedy Entertainment's Control. Congrats to the team over in Finland.

So please enjoy each staffer's own list below, and see who amongst us you most align with on taste. Then find them on Twitter (don't), relentlessly stalk them (don't), until they've no choice but to follow you back, make plans to visit on your next birthday, and then block you and never show up (um).

Only two games (!) appear in all eight lists - spot them, and win a prize (our respect).

JULIAN BENSON

1. Outer Wilds
2. Telling Lies
3. Control
4. Disco Elysium
5. Luigi's Mansion 3
6. Slay the Spire
7. Oxygen Not Included
8. Anno 1800
9. Fire Emblem: Three Houses
10. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
11. Dicey Dungeons
12. Observation
13. Dragon Quest Builders 2
14. The Surge 2
15. Total War: Three Kingdoms

PHIL BOON

1. Resident Evil 2
2. Apex Legends
3. Untitled Goose Game
4. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
5. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
6. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
7. The Outer Worlds
8. Control
9. Pokémon Sword & Shield
10. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
11. Super Mario Maker 2
12. Luigi's Mansion 3
13. Planet Zoo
14. Outer Wilds
15. Observation

JAMES DALY

1. Control
2. Resident Evil 2
3. Catherine: Full Body
4. Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
5. Concrete Genie
6. Apex Legends
7. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
8. Pokémon Sword & Shield
9. KILL la KILL -IF
10. Code Vein
11. Cadence of Hyrule
12. Super Mario Maker 2
13. Luigi's Mansion 3
14. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
15. Mortal Kombat 11

MIKE DIVER

1. Control
2. Sayonara Wild Hearts
3. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
4. River City Girls
5. Judgment
6. Resident Evil 2
7. Astral Chain
8. Outer Wilds
9. Super Mario Maker 2
10. Telling Lies
11. Luigi's Mansion 3
12. Katana ZERO
13. Shenmue 3
14. Cadence of Hyrule
15. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

MARK FOSTER

1. Resident Evil 2
2. Control
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
4. The Outer Worlds
5. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
6. Untitled Goose Game
7. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
8. Apex Legends
9. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
10. Pokémon Sword & Shield
11. Luigi's Mansion 3
12. FIFA 20
13. Planet Zoo
14. Mortal Kombat 11
15. Blasphemous

WILL MCCUE

1. Apex Legends
2. Pokémon Sword & Shield
3. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
4. Luigi's Mansion 3
5. Untitled Goose Game
6. Control
7. Resident Evil 2
8. Borderlands 3
9. Outer Wilds
10. Gears 5
11. Super Mario Maker 2
12. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
13. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
14. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
15. The Outer Worlds

EWAN MOORE

1. Outer Wilds
2. Control
3. Untitled Goose Game
4. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
5. Luigi's Mansion 3
6. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
7. Resident Evil 2
8. Katana ZERO
9. Super Mario Maker 2
10. Cadence of Hyrule
11. The Outer Worlds
12. Dragon Quest Builders 2
13. Gato Roboto
14. Tetris 99
15. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

TOM RYAN-SMITH

1. Control
2. Gears 5
3. Untitled Goose Game
4. Outer Wilds
5. Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
6. Pokémon Sword & Shield
7. The Outer Worlds
8. Luigi's Mansion 3
9. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
10. Resident Evil 2
11. The Stretchers
12. Ape Out
13. Super Mario Maker 2
14. Apex Legends
15. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice