Games of the Year 2019: The worst online service gave us one of the year's best online games

Over the festive break we'll be running through our top 20 picks of the year's best games, leading up to the reveal of Eurogamer's game of the year on New Year's Eve. You can find all the pieces published to date here - and thanks for joining us throughout the year!

Over a year after its belated release, there's no denying one incontrovertible truth. Nintendo still can't do online gaming, and Nintendo Switch Online - well, to put it simply, it kind of sucks. For a service that remains so severely limited, I'd almost be appalled at the gall of charging £17.99 for something that lacks so much basic functionality. But - and here's the kick - the worst online gaming service is where you'll find one of the best online games of the year.

It helps, of course, that that particular game is built around Tetris - and if there's one other incontrovertible truth around these parts it's that Tetris, across its many variations, remains the ultimate game. Tetris 99 might be one of the most fascinating variations since... Well, since last year's Tetris Effect. Tetris 99 works as a beautiful counterpoint to that blissed out meditation, though, and whereas Tetris Effect didn't offer straight-up multiplayer, Tetris 99 offers almost nothing but.

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