Curated playlist
2019 video games
- Resident Evil 2 (2019 video game)Resident Evil 2, the 2019 survival horror game from Capcom, begins on the night of the 29th of September 1998. A rookie police officer named Leon S. Kennedy is heading for Raccoon City to start his first shift. A college student named…
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019 video game)Call of Duty: Modern Warfare earned more than 600 million dollars in its first three days on sale. Infinity Ward developed the first-person shooter and Activision published it. It reached PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One on the 25th of…
- Kingdom Hearts IIIKingdom Hearts III, a 2019 action role-playing game from Square Enix, sold more than five million copies in under two weeks. That made it the fastest-selling title in its series. The road to that launch was far slower. Rumors, delays and…
- Metro ExodusIn Metro Exodus, a gas filter lasts exactly one minute. When the minute ends, the player must fit a fresh one, and only if a spare is still in the pack. That ticking pressure defines the 2019 first-person shooter from 4A Games, the third…
- Death StrandingDeath Stranding is a 2019 video game in which a courier named Sam Porter Bridges crosses a wrecked United States on foot, carrying a premature baby in a pod. The baby is not cargo. It is a tool, a companion and, as the story unfolds,…
- Sekiro: Shadows Die TwiceIn Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, you win by breaking an enemy's balance, not draining health. Then one killing blow lands.
- Apex LegendsApex Legends passed one million unique players eight hours after it went live in February 2019, and almost nobody had known it existed. Respawn Entertainment built the game, Electronic Arts published it, and it cost nothing to download.…
- Devil May Cry 5A hooded stranger walks into a demon-hunting office in Devil May Cry 5, and the young hunter on duty, Nero, politely offers him something to eat. The stranger answers by ripping off a demonic Devil Bringer arm, which transforms in his hand…
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen OrderLucasfilm wanted Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order to star a smuggler, not a Jedi. Director Stig Asmussen refused.
- The Outer WorldsThe Outer Worlds is a 2019 action role-playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, and it begins with a history that never happened. In the game's timeline, U.S. President William McKinley was never assassinated in 1901. Theodore Roosevelt…
- Control (video game)Control is a 2019 action-adventure game from Remedy Entertainment, and nearly all of it takes place inside a single building in New York City. From the street, the Oldest House looks like a featureless concrete skyscraper. Inside, it is…
- Mortal Kombat 11Mortal Kombat 11 is the best-selling game in its franchise, with more than 15 million copies sold worldwide by 2022. Yet in 2019 a developer told Kotaku that some members of the team had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.…
- Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR SeriesIn the VR series Vader Immortal, you play a smuggler newly captured by Darth Vader.
- Outer WildsOuter Wilds, a 2019 action-adventure game from Mobius Digital, gives its player exactly 22 minutes to live. At the end of that time the sun goes supernova and the whole planetary system is destroyed. Then everything begins again. The…
- Disco ElysiumA man wakes in a trashed hostel room in the district of Martinaise, with a savage hangover and no memory of who he is. He does not know his name, his profession, or anything about the world beyond the door. This is how Disco Elysium…
- Days GoneIn Days Gone, a horde of the game's infected can number anywhere from 50 to 500. Every one of them is chasing a single man on a motorcycle. That man is Deacon St. John, a former outlaw biker in post-apocalyptic Oregon. He has just learned…