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I'm not saying there can't be any controversies, I'm saying good games don't get huge online outrage (unless there's something actually wrong with the game). With that in mind you can take the GOTY nominations list and most of those games have had either no backlash or very minor backlashes (The clair obscur AI controversy comes to mind where a small vocal tried to pump it up but most people didn't really care) or there's been a real issue with the game (like the balancing in Silksong).
Amazing games have received backlashes because they dared to have a gay character in them.
It is those complaints that reach the developers when they are being send death threats.