Just because I like games doesn’t mean I want to play 2019 games in 5 days

If next year's video title isn't "20(20)20 games you should have played" I will be dissapointed

This list actually feels sincere and curated, as opposed to the hundreds of videos listing the same 10 games over and over

Untitled Goose Game is basically child friendly wholesome Hitman.

I just wanted to say that Outer wilds is god damn amazing, easily one of the best games I have ever played. It is just really fun exploring the solar system on your own and finding clues yourself. If you're going to play it, DO NOT watch anything about the game. The less you know about it, the better the game is. It is just a fantastic game.

Ayy cant wait for the year 3000 when he's gonna cover 300 games

Outer Wilds is easily my favorite game in years. Wish I could experience it again for the first time.

No horror games... has Pathologic 2 on the list. :)

Baba Is You is so good that the music creeps over to the other titles. You know that's how good it is!

I doubt that Untitled Goose Game needs any more exposure given how massive it was

Pathologic 2 needs more support holy shit it is a masterpiece and it isnt even fully completed yet

Bro I just realized Untitled Goose Game playability is similar to Hitman wtf

People saying that 2019 wasn't a good year for games obviously don't play indie games

i really likes outer wilds a lot, it's up there with the RE2 remake for game of the year for me. but anyone reading this and is interested in playing, DO NOT LOOK UP ANY WALKTHROUTHS!!! i only did at the end after i explored all i thought there was to explore and even tho that was only like 3-5% of the game that was left over, i still regret not trying more to find the stuff i needed to know in-game

"Anthem" the viewers, the people behind disco elysium and adam himself: "no wait"

This is probably one of the first respectable list of games I've seen on youtube in like 10 years. Its always 10 games I've already heard of, and half of them are up for game of the year and they're all $40-$60. Yeah, I've heard of them all, I don't need a sweaty boy to tell me about them again. But your list is so pleasant. :D I loved a few of them, overlooked many, and need to play some more of them!

"you will regret it, and thats kinda the point" reminds me kinda of playing "this war of mine" and a description someone said of reading "there will come soft rains"

i'm glad frog detective is getting some recognition, all the hard work frog has done solving cases deserves it jokes aside though, the games are super short (1 hour each) and super simple but also really charming and heartwarming, if you are feeling kinda down they will cheer you up (: totally recommended if you want a short and sweet, feel-good experience.

It's great to have this nice, calm and even profound (as I see it) take on released games and industry in general. I think it may be a year now that I subscribed and I feel like at home with your channel. Keep up great work Adam! Happy Christmas.

Noita was one of the nicest games I've played this year, the gameplay is so damn fun, I strongly recommend that hidden gem.

Great video. Really stands out from other best of 2019 lists I’ve seen.

Pathologic 2 and disco elysium are a must

Crying Suns, Dark Devotion and Hades are the games I had the most fun with this year. Crying Suns for its unique take on the FTL formula, FTL being perhaps my most favourite game of all times Dark Devotion for an interesting take on the side-scrolling action RPG genre, with many interesting mechanics and really fun progression Hades for being the best damn game I've played this year simply because of its story, characters and narration. The outstanding gameplay is just a cherry on the top, really.

Another good one I recommend is Bug Fables. It's an RPG very reminiscent of Paper Mario TTYD with a bunch of unique mechanics that makes the whole experience both fresh and nostalgic

katana Zero: "there is also a followup SLASH sequal on the way" I see what you did there

Thanks for this! A fantastic video, there were quite a few games on this list I'd not heard of, and look right up my alley. I'm usually good at keeping up with most indie games, but I managed to miss several of these. So, thanks, for bringing them to my attention!

Sadly I already knew all of these.. so I basically agree with your list and hence liked this video^^ Nice job:) as always:) Merry christmas! Cheers!

Superb, Adam. So glad that there are still crazy games being made. Gives me hope for my own!

Outer Worlds is my game of year, nothing could even compare to the amount of feels it gave me. One of my goals for the next year is to try out Baba Is You.

I really appreciate you putting the names of games in the description. I googled Adam Millard Descenders, because thats what I wanted to rewatch, and this video was the first result!

4:55 "The game is about playing as a doctor in a spooky russian steppe town haunted by *Bird headed cultists."* *Hmm sounds like theres a* *_Lunatic Cultist_* *in that game.*

Thanks for another year of great content, all the best to you and your channel for 2020

When you realize Apex was THIS YEAR, not like 2 or 3 years ago...

it's fun seeing how many of these games I already own! also, just picked up Forager! looks fun and thanks for these videos! really helps to find good games I otherwise would have missed!

Its an interesting list of games which are very different from one another... None of them appear to be AAA titles, but all of them seem to have something unique to offer. It's refreshing to find a list that isn't common with other video-game lists. Great compilation.

Great video, I think MO: Astray deserves to be on the list, if you haven't play it I highly recommend it.

Some of my favorite games of the year coupled with games on top of my whishlist and a good amount of new discoveries that I'll check out eventually. Thanks for sharing!

Love that you mentioned A short hike! That game made me so feel so happy and relaxed when I played it. It's just, good, you know.

Excellent Video. Love that you highlighted many smaller games. I tend to pay attention to the indie space, yet even some of these slipped under the radar.

Watched, loved, subbed. Fantastic list dude.

Nice to see Heavens Vault grab a mention in at least one game of the year video. Really fantastic piece of work, the writing is superb and the central mechanic is very interesting. You can tell it was a real labour of love for the developers.

just discovered this channel, and gotta say this is literally what i´ve been lookin for in the last months. great job dood

Just came here to say thank you for mentioning Katana Zero because I feel like I haven’t seen anybody else talking about it, yet it’s such a great game with an amazing art style, soundtrack, and obviously action.

I can't see snippets of Pathologic 2 without hearing the pillar men theme in my head..

The Outer Wilds is probably my GOTY.

I love these kind of videos from KZfaqrs that have the same taste in games as me. Gonna pick up 3 or 4 games you recommended.

i subbed to you a long time ago. but now I've decided you're my new favourite teacher on zeh inturnetz. watching your videos among other youtubers makes me feel more enlightened than those spiritual gurus.

Thanks for this great list of recommendations! People keep complaining about the decline of gaming, not realizing that it's only AAA games that are hurting. But each year there are more and better indie games like this than ever before.

The video I wait all year for. Thank you Adam!

seeing this made me realize that i've been following you since the 2017 games you should have played video. cheers for 2 years, adam :)

LOL the little guy at 4:37 ejecting and then just standing there like, "I've been going about this all wrong."

Katana Zero was definetly my Game of the Year. So good. However, there are a few in your list that I have yet to try and will be happy to take a look at in the next year (I know, I'm a bit late, but hey, better late than never...?)

Great list as usual. Thanks for the recommendations

Of all of the end of the year list I've seen on YT, I think yours has the most interesting games.

Great list, have played most of these games and loved Outer Wilds, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Heaven's Vault, Katana Zero, A Short Hike. Also want to give love to Void Bastards and Lovely Planet 2 as the best FPSs of the year!

By the way, Adam, thank you very much for making a subtitles for every video. English isn't my mother language but thanks to your subs I can easily enjoy all the stuff you are doing. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart from Ukraine :3

Heck yeah, Disco Elysium! It's a masterpiece for sure. The use of heavy internal dialogue lets them make the protagonist more memorable and interesting than the most memorable and interesting NPCs of the best other games, when normally they're who RPGs have to turn to for character and colour since the protagonist is often a blank slate with boring, "safe" dialogue picks and very little else in the way of personality. Yet, because Disco Elysium's inner voices are skill-based, you can give different weighting to the ones you want to focus on, and produce a different personality of your own design even before you make the choices that are presented to you... choices that can be far more compelling, because they're informed by your internal soliloquy. The result is lots of fun to handle, and it doesn't end there. The first time I played through I made one interpretation of the main character that I really liked, and the game told me a beautiful story that will stay with me forever. The second time, I made the protagonist into a very different sort of man, and made a fair few different calls, and while the overall structure of the game was fairly similar in its broad strokes, I found things that had worked before for one reason, still worked and produced their own resonances for entirely different reasons. In particular, both of my characters picked up on a sense of fellowship with the murder victim, but what elements of themselves they saw in him were entirely different each time. A character that had played on my first character's sympathies to great effect in that run through, played on the intellectual curiosity of my second guy... to great effect in both cases, and a completely different outcome which had knock-on effects through the rest of the story. Another thing that Disco Elysium did amazingly well was fail-forwards. Blowing a skill check, or a series of skill checks, could produce laugh-out-loud moments, incredibly poignant scenes, secure additional information and advantage (possibly at the cost of some embarrassment) or breadcumb me down into a significant side-area of the game with added motivation. One of the big emotional climaxes in my first playthrough was when I botched a certain check and my character painfully bared his soul in a public venue only to be left hanging dead in a stunned silence afterwards, and start to lose it, yelling into the void. It sure beats the hell out of save-scumming. Even the thing that the game did sparingly and arguably half-heartedly, combat, played to its advantage. Rather than knowing you were going in a fight and being able to prebuff and set up a grenade throw or whatever, you could enter a tense situation with the same interface as dialogue, never knowing when the bullets were going to start flying, or even after they did, whether you'd really reached the point of no return and needed to take action, or could still get through to somebody and keep on trying to talk them down. It was incredibly tense and effective. My only concern about the legacy of the game is that adopting its greatest innovation, the internal dialogue, would seem to be very expensive in terms of word-count. Even at a million words, Disco Elysium is not a particularly long game. Is it possible to use some of its mechanics in future titles to elevate the genre, or is it simply not feasible without a five-year development cycle? Regardless, I'm very thankful that we have this title. Not just a top game of the year, but a serious contender for top game of all time- even though it has flaws, it can certainly stand on its many merits.

Informative Video! Thanks a lot!

im glad you made this channel and focus on indies too. The triple A already gets so much money pumped into the ads compartment and then coverage by social media, it's a shame tbh, as it overrules the often better indie games

I can't thank you enough for introducing me to Sayonara wild hearts this felt more like a dream than dreams I already have.

Very good list. I may have to come back here when I save up to buy some games.

I'm a little disappointed that MO: Astray didn't make it onto the list, as it's probably one of my favorite platformers of the year, but seeing how crazy and off the wall some of these games are, I can't be too mad. Thanks for another great list!

I was really hoping Risk of Rain 2 was going to be on this list. Man that game is really good.

This is a great list man! Didn't even know about half of the games.

Great video as always, time to carry on watching

Watching this video has inspired me to create a list of my own. This list will honor some of the most incredible indie games to release this past year. There will be no repeats of games featured in the video above and all of the games listed are my personal favorites. Additionally, the games listed below I personally believe are either underrated or underrepresented in the gaming community at large. I would love to hear input from the rest of the comment section as to what their favorite indie titles released this year are. With that being said, let the list begin: 1.) Blasphemous 2.) Valfaris 3.) MO: Astray 4.) Anodyne 2: Return to Dust 5.) Children of Morta 6.) Carrion 7.) Blacksad 8.) Superliminal 9.) Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince 10.) Gato Roboto 11.) Moons of Madness 12.) Deliver Us the Moon 13.) Lost Ember 14.) Arise A Simple Story 15.) The Takeover 16.) Minoria 17.) Fallback 18.) Dark Devotion 19.) Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom 20.) Skybolt Jack Honarable Mentions: 1.) Terminator Resistance 2.) Devil's Hunt 3.) Daymare 1998 4.) Showdown Bandit: Episode One 5.) Light Fairytale Episode One 6.) Cathedral 7.) Darksiders Genesis 8.) Oninaki 9.) The Caligula Effect: Overdose 10.) AI: The Somnium Files 11.) Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid 12.) Apsulov: End of Gods 13.) Dry Drowning 14.) Sunless Skies 15.) Observation

Man, you're so awesome. You should have subscribers by the millions, I tell ye

"Smaller, Cooler Indie Games" is how I describe my favorite games, so yeah this is a great place to go to find the games I missed this year.

I love how he sounded surprise when crying suns came up

I had this video playing in the background while doing schoolwork and I was immediately confused as to why I was hearing A Short Hike music behind Pathologic 2 at 4:45

wow. super super solid list. 2019 was quite a decent year for gaming!

It's refrshing to see many games that don't fall back on killing or combat on this list. I love some ultraviolent gorefests as much ad the next guy, but it's good that the gaming landscape is expanding to different tastes, and it's great to see nonviolent games like Untitled Goose Game, Outer Wilds or Baba is You among the best of the year

I’m just happy someone mentioned Katana ZERO, really loved that game

I always expand my Steam wishlist after watching one of these. Thank you.

4:24 or you could, like Scrapman, build a haunted monorail that crashes your game and makes some weird-ass noises.

"Dicey Dungeons has an excellently paced difficulty curve" Witch episode 4 wants to know your location

I swear to you Adam. I will add every game in this list to my steam library RIGHT NOW

So glad Sayonara Wild Hearts appeared here. Simogo also managed to get Queen Latifah on board after securing Annapurna as their publisher, since Annapurna do a bunch of movie publishing too and have various acting agencies in their address book. Pretty sure they just pulled on some of their strings after the idea surfaced. 👍

Really enjoyed this, thanks!

I'm really happy that you gave Trailmakers some more attention, because it really deserves it

As you read the names at the end you sound like a principal calling students to his office. Nonetheless, thank you very much, received many excellent recommendations and this had a lot of value.

I like how the title implies that once 2019 is over I may never play any of these games again.

Talking about games aside, I'm enjoying the jokes littered around your videos. It's keeping me entertained, but not too distracting to where it throws me off-track

Thanks Adam! Just what I needed.

Supraland is such a good pick! Glad to see it here, the free demo had me hooked, with the line and sinker.

"Pretentious postman simulator" Well... you're not wrong

While I tend to have some beef with much of the points you make in your usual videos, this is a damn good list.

Okay, I was already super intrigued by both Baba is You and Outer Wilds since Mark Brown did videos on these, aaaaaaand kinda forgot about'em, but now you too? That's one dirty move, I'll tell you that! Guess I'll buy *sigh*

One thing I will say about hypnospace is that, despite loving it, the visual style hit my asperger's in a certain way that made it incredibly energy draining to look at.

I found out about Disco Elysium because of this video, so thank you! The game is a masterpiece in terms of writing and soundtrack

Happy to see Baba is You getting the love it deserve!! ♥

What a fantastic list. Thanks.

Here's one for the Pathologic! Yay!

Debussy as background music? Thank you, my friend.

I was terrified when you said anthem lmao

I’m not about this shade on Death Stranding, but I did enjoy the list. I can’t wait to check some of these out!

These tops are so amazing!

Love the focus on good games independent of sales numbers / popularity.

I used to love Extra Credits "Games you might not have tried, " but their channel is unlistenable now so I'm very happy to find this video.