Best of 2019 – Readers’ Choice

This year, the casual games field has seen countless quality releases from various genres – from fan-favorite hidden object games to best-selling time management and match 3 games.

For the eighth consecutive year, All About Casual Game’s Best of the Year awards event celebrates the best premium casual games and developers from the past year. During the voting period, our loyal readers and casual games geeks everywhere a chance to vote for the best games of 2019 and see their favorite developers get the recognition they deserve!

Best Hidden Object Game of 2019

Ghost Files: Memory of a Crime

  (33.46%)

The Christmas Spirit: Mother Goose's Untold Tales

  (22.63%)

Nevertales: The Abomination

  (19.18%)

Paranormal Files: Enjoy the Shopping

  (10.07%)

Whispered Secrets: Cursed Wealth

  (6.14%)

Mystery Case Files: Moths to a Flame

  (5.08%)

The Andersen Accounts: The Price of a Life

  (1.73%)

Vacation Adventures: Park Ranger 9

  (1.73%)

Best Adventure Game of 2019

Wanderlust: Shadow of the Monolith

  (23.24%)

Reflections of Life: Slipping Hope

  (18.25%)

Darkness and Flame: Enemy in Reflection

  (15.60%)

My Brother Rabbit

  (11.70%)

Dreadful Tales: The Fire Within

  (10.45%)

Dark City: Vienna

  (10.45%)

Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadow

  (5.30%)

Cadenza: The Following

  (4.99%)

Best Time Management and Strategy Game of 2019

Detective Jackie - Mystic Case

  (39.86%)

Welcome to Primrose Lake

  (18.63%)

Incredible Dracula: The Ice Kingdom

  (11.79%)

Roman Adventures: Britons - Season 2

  (11.08%)

Kingdom Chronicles 2

  (5.66%)

12 Labours of Hercules IX: A Hero’s Moonwalk

  (4.48%)

Hero of the Kingdom III

  (4.25%)

Alicia Quatermain 4: Da Vinci and the Time Machine

  (4.25%)

Best Match 3 and Puzzle Game of 2019

Heroes Of Hellas Origins: Part One

  (25.89%)

Dreamland Solitaire

  (17.77%)

SpelunKing: The Mine Match

  (13.71%)

Runefall 2

  (13.20%)

Laruaville 8

  (10.15%)

Jewel Match Solitaire 2

  (9.64%)

GO Team Investigates: Solitaire and Mahjong Mysteries

  (6.60%)

Spellarium 4

  (3.05%)

Best Game Visuals of 2019

Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape

  (24.83%)

Wanderlust: The City of Mists

  (23.15%)

Labyrinths of the World: Lost Island

  (21.98%)

Reflections of Life: Slipping Hope

  (10.23%)

Edge of Reality: Great Deeds

  (6.54%)

Christmas Stories: Alice’s Adventures

  (5.54%)

Vermillion Watch: Parisian Pursuit

  (4.70%)

Kingdom Chronicles 2

  (3.02%)

Best Game Storyline of 2019

Dark Romance: Hunchback of Notre-Dame

  (39.03%)

Ghost Files: Memory of a Crime

  (29.62%)

New York Mysteries: The Outbreak

  (10.41%)

Whispered Secrets: Cursed Wealth

  (5.95%)

Edge of Reality: Great Deeds

  (4.71%)

My Brother Rabbit

  (4.09%)

Mystery Case Files: Black Crown

  (3.84%)

Reflections of Life: Slipping Hope

  (2.35%)

Best New Game Series of 2019

Ms. Holmes: The Monster of the Baskervilles

  (29.67%)

Fatal Evidence: The Cursed Island

  (20.56%)

Fairy Godmother Stories: Cinderella

  (16.12%)

Dreadful Tales: The Space Between

  (11.92%)

Worlds Align: Beginning

  (7.71%)

Stormhill Mystery: Family Shadow

  (7.24%)

Dreamwalker: Never Fall Asleep

  (4.21%)

The Man with the Ivory Cane

  (2.57%)

Best Game Sequel of 2019

The Christmas Spirit: Mother Goose's Untold Tales

  (30.57%)

Moonsouls: The Lost Sanctum

  (24.38%)

Whispered Secrets: Dreadful Beauty

  (15.02%)

Labyrinths of the World: Lost Island

  (13.43%)

Mystery Case Files: Moths to a Flame

  (8.13%)

Dreadful Tales: The Fire Within

  (3.71%)

Roman Adventures: Britons - Season 2

  (2.65%)

Alicia Quatermain 4: Da Vinci and the Time Machine

  (2.12%)

Best Concept of 2019

Detective Jackie - Mystic Case

  (27.56%)

Moonsouls: The Lost Sanctum

  (25.62%)

Halloween Chronicles: Evil Behind a Mask

  (19.96%)

Whispered Secrets: Dreadful Beauty

  (13.60%)

Bridge to Another World: Gulliver Syndrome

  (6.36%)

Haunted Manor: Remembrance

  (3.53%)

Dreamwalker: Never Fall Asleep

  (1.94%)

SpelunKing: The Mine Match

  (1.41%)

Best Game Developer of 2019

Domini Games

  (30.42%)

Mad Head Games

  (20.28%)

Elephant Games

  (12.82%)

FIVE-BN Games

  (11.97%)

GrandMA Studios

  (8.87%)

Gamehouse

  (8.17%)

Artifex Mundi

  (4.08%)

Eipix Entertainment

  (3.38%)

Most Buzzed About Game of 2019

Dark Parables: Portrait of the Stained Princess

  (28.10%)

Detective Jackie - Mystic Case

  (25.86%)

My Brother Rabbit

  (12.07%)

Darkness and Flame: Enemy in Reflection

  (11.72%)

Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape

  (10.52%)

Mystery Case Files: Moths to a Flame

  (7.59%)

Dreadful Tales: The Space Between

  (2.76%)

Roman Adventures: Britons - Season 2

  (1.38%)

Best of the Best Game of 2019

Whispered Secrets: Dreadful Beauty

  (21.97%)

Wanderlust: The City of Mists

  (19.71%)

Mystery of the Ancients: No Escape

  (16.80%)

My Brother Rabbit

  (10.50%)

Mystery Case Files: Black Crown

  (9.69%)

Dreadful Tales: The Space Between

  (8.08%)

Roman Adventures: Britons - Season 2

  (6.95%)

Kingdom Chronicles 2

  (6.30%)

Premium casual games released on Big Fish Games and Gamehouse during December 1st, 2018 and November 30, 2019 are eligible for the Best of 2019 awards. Voting was opened to the public from December 1st to 31st 2019.