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Top 10 PS4 Games To Play In 2019 (So Far)

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PlayStation 4 owners hit the midpoint of 2019 with an embarrassment of riches already behind them.

GamesRadar+ used its mid-year retrospective, “Top 10 PS4 Games To Play In 2019 (So Far),” to round up the releases that defined the console’s first six months of the year. The list spans survival horror, battle royale chaos, a decade-long RPG payoff, and a shinobi revenge story that made players earn every kill. It’s a snapshot of a platform running at full strength well before the holiday lineup even arrives.

• Capcom’s Resident Evil 2 Remake rebuilt the 1998 original from the ground up with over-the-shoulder third-person gameplay and the RE Engine’s atmospheric lighting.
• Respawn Entertainment and Electronic Arts dropped Apex Legends with no warning in February 2019, and its squad-based mechanics and contextual ping system made it an instant phenomenon.
• Square Enix finally closed the “Dark Seeker Saga” with Kingdom Hearts III, sending Sora, Donald, and Goofy through Disney and Pixar worlds including Toy Story, Frozen, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

The Survival Horror Benchmark

Resident Evil 2 Remake didn’t just polish up an old favorite — it reworked the entire experience for a modern audience while keeping the dread intact. The shift to over-the-shoulder combat, paired with the RE Engine’s overhauled visuals, turned the Raccoon City police station into a genuinely tense maze again. It’s the kind of remake other publishers now point to when arguing a classic is worth revisiting rather than just re-releasing.

Apex Legends Rewrites the Battle Royale Playbook

Respawn and EA didn’t tease Apex Legends for months the way most big releases get marketed — it simply appeared in February 2019 and exploded. The squad-focused design, built around character abilities and that now-copied contextual ping system, gave the battle royale genre a mechanical identity distinct from what Fortnite and PUBG had already established.

Apex Legends launched with zero pre-release marketing and still became one of 2019’s biggest gaming stories almost overnight.

Kingdom Hearts III Finally Delivers

For a series that had spanned multiple consoles and over a decade of spin-offs, Kingdom Hearts III closing the “Dark Seeker Saga” was as much a relief as a celebration. Sora, Donald, and Goofy moving through Toy Story, Frozen, and Pirates of the Caribbean worlds gave the game a scale earlier entries couldn’t match, and it landed as one of the year’s most-anticipated payoffs.

Precision Combat and Post-Apocalyptic Wandering

FromSoftware and Activision’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice asked players to abandon the build-and-grind habits of Dark Souls in favor of parries, posture breaks, and a grappling hook that turned Sengoku-era Japan into a vertical playground. Capcom’s Devil May Cry 5 answered with three playable characters — Nero, Dante, and newcomer V — stitched together by combo-heavy, stylish action. Meanwhile, 4A Games pushed the Metro franchise into semi-open wilderness maps with Metro Exodus, and Codemasters kept the sim-racing crowd happy with the unforgiving off-road handling of DiRT Rally 2.0.

None of these seven were flukes — Resident Evil 2, Apex Legends, and Kingdom Hearts III alone accounted for some of the biggest headlines gaming had all year, and that’s before Sekiro started racking up Game of the Year nominations. With the back half of 2019 still to come, PS4 owners were already spoiled for choice — and the holiday release calendar hadn’t even started filling in yet.