More details and lists at the link, but here are the main ones as shown in the article:
PS4 GOTY : Resident Evil 2 (91 - 85 critics)
PS4 Exclusive of the year : MLB The Show 19 (86 - 31 critics) - won't be an exclusive anymore "as early as 2021"
X1 GOTY : Resident Evil 2 (93 - 26 critics)
X1 (console) Exclusive of the year : Gears 5 (84 - 86 critics)
Switch GOTY : Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition (93 - 17 critics)
Switch Exclusive of the year : Fire Emblem Three Houses (89 - 101 critics)
PC GOTY : Red Dead Redemption 2 (93 - 43 critics)
PC Exclusive of the year : Disco Elysium (91 - 59 critics)
Interesting ranking. I added the number of critics to have a proper comparison.
And several of 2019's highest-scoring releases were new ports of previously released titles, including the year's #1-ranked release, Divinity: Original Sin II (reaching the Switch in 2019 after prior releases in 2017 and 2018 on other platforms), as well as the #2, which was the belated PC version of Red Dead Redemption, arriving a year after its console brethren.
So, what was our best new game of 2019? The year's #3-ranked release, Resident Evil 2. (...)
Perhaps you disagree with that classification. In that case, what was 2019's best wholly original release? That honor falls to our overall #4-ranked title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which is definitely not a port of any previous game. It's not even a sequel, for that matter, but is instead that rarest of things: a terrific new IP (in this case, by FromSoftware, the team behind Dark Souls series and Bloodborne).
Rounding out our top 5 highest-scoring games of 2019 was the latest Final Fantasy XIV expansion, Shadowbringers.
PS4 GOTY : Resident Evil 2 (91 - 85 critics)
PS4 Exclusive of the year : MLB The Show 19 (86 - 31 critics) - won't be an exclusive anymore "as early as 2021"
X1 GOTY : Resident Evil 2 (93 - 26 critics)
X1 (console) Exclusive of the year : Gears 5 (84 - 86 critics)
Switch GOTY : Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition (93 - 17 critics)
Switch Exclusive of the year : Fire Emblem Three Houses (89 - 101 critics)
PC GOTY : Red Dead Redemption 2 (93 - 43 critics)
PC Exclusive of the year : Disco Elysium (91 - 59 critics)
Interesting ranking. I added the number of critics to have a proper comparison.
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