The Best PC Games Of 2019 (So Far)

Only halfway through 2019, our annual check-in list of favorites feels like a proper end-of-2019 Game Of The Year List. Illustration

- Hayden Dingman

Wow, look at the time! I think I say this every year, but I can’t believe we’re halfway through 2019 already. And it’s been a busy 2019 as well. This list of the best games of the year so far is already so strong, it feels like a proper end-of-2019 Game of the Year list. Hell, I had to cut some perfectly deserving games because we ran out of space. Did I mention this is only the middle of the year?

And it’s only going to get worse from here, with high-profile releases like Doom Eternal and Control still to come in 2019. And then 2020’s spring gauntlet of Cyberpunk 2077 (go.pcworld. com/2077), Dying Light 2 (go.pcworld.com/ dl2), Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2 (go.pcworld.com/vmb), Watch Dogs Legion (go. pcworld.com/wdl), and on and on.

Good years ahead. But before we get there, let’s take a moment to recount the best games of 2019 so far—maybe some you played, and probably at least a few you haven’t gotten around to yet. (Note: This list is in no particular order, except the final entry.)

BABA IS YOU

TRAILER: GO.PCWORLD.COM/BABA

Baba Is You is a fiendish puzzler with simple rules. So simple, in fact, they’re laid out for you to see. Every puzzle consists of a series of text blocks, arcane-looking phrases like “Flag Is Win” and “Water Is Hot” and the titular “Baba Is You.” Your task is to push these blocks around, redefining the very rules of the puzzle in your favor. Stuck behind a wall? Well, maybe you should become the wall—or rather, Wall Is You.