It’s award season! Since 2017, Gamer Malaya and Gamer Matters have run our own brand of game awards, celebrating the great games (and ridicule some we are disappointed with) that we encounter this year. Whether we played them all or just watch some playthrough on YouTube matters not, these are the games that defined the year for us.
For GM GOTY 2019, we are doing something a little different. We have shortlisted 50+1 games to be nominated across 9 categories- some returning, some are new. The games in the staple Most Disappointing category, the tenth category of the awards, are omitted from this list.
Without further ado, here is the shortlist:
- A Plague’s Tale
- Ace Combat 7
- Ape Out
- Astral Chain
- Baba Is You
- Borderlands 3
- Blasphemous
- Bloodstained
- Call Of Duty Modern Warfare
- Catherine Full Body
- Control
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
- Daemon X Machina
- Dangerous Driving
- Days Gone
- Death Stranding
- Devil May Cry 5
- Dirt Rally 2.0
- Disco Elysium
- F1 2019
- Fire Emblem Three Houses
- The Grand Tour Game
- Greedfall
- GRID 2019
- Halo Reach
- Hypnospace Outlaw
- Indivisible
- Judgment
- King’s League II
- Medievil
- Metal Wolf Chaos XD
- Metro Exodus
- NFS Heat
- The Outer Wilds
- The Outer Worlds
- Outward
- Pokémon Sword and Shield
- Resident Evil 2
- River City Girls
- Samurai Shodown
- Sayonara Wild Hearts
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
- Subnautica Below Zero
- Terminator Uprising
- Tetris 99
- Untitled Goose Game
- Void Bastards
- World War Z
- WRC 8
The +1 is Kingdom Hearts III.
In a 2-episode special of dia.log – The Gamer Matters Podcast, we go through the deliberation process in determining the winner of each award. The first episode is dedicated to introduce and celebrate the 50 (+1) shortlisted games. And the 10 games/gaming things that disappointed us the most in 2019.
You can catch episode 047 of dia.log – The Gamer Matters Podcast on YouTube here:
dia.log – The Gamer Matters Podcast is also available on iTunes, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Overcast and Spotify.