The Eurogamer team's favourite games of 2019

We've run through the team's top 20 games of the year, you've had your chance to share your own top 50 games of the year and now allow us one final indulgence as members of the Eurogamer team run through their personal top fives. It's been a stellar year all-round, really, as told by the diversity of titles represented across the board. 2019 truly showed the breadth of gaming at the moment - and it means 2020 has an awful lot to live up to.

I never really know what to do when I'm outdoors amongst nature. I sort of look about, smell the pine needles, marvel at how lovely everything is and then self-consciousness descends.

Luckily, nature, it turns out, is what games are great at. This year has been a lovely rewilding: so many opportunities to walk amongst the trees, to move from rock to rock, to watch as waves wash against sand and then retreat. And because games can do anything, the natural world can take a range of forms, moving from hyper-detail to surreal abstraction.

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