ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
January 16
The games released on this day in gaming history.
608 releases
This yearCritical Strike Modern: SWAT Shooter Ops
SwitchWorldwide
Take on the role of a top-tier SWAT operative and tackle a series of high-stakes assignments where your choices shape the outcome. Face life-threatening scenarios involving hostage extractions, conflict resolution, and dangerous adversaries.
This yearThe Lab: Escape Room
SwitchWorldwide
Walk through a futuristic complex while solving puzzles and discover how you got there. What are this misterious creatures? Why everything looks abandoned? Could you escape from The Lab?
This yearO Réquiem das Crianças
PCBrazil
Following the mysterious disappearance of a child in the Pytaka ecological park, Maranguape, Ordo Realitas decides to send its newest agent: Jaime Ortega.
This yearBail Force: Cyberpunk Bounty Hunters
PCWorldwide
Hunt cybercriminals in a brutal action roguelite where enemies adapt to your fighting style. Play as Angel or Lea and choose your path through revenge and redemption in a dystopian society.
This yearStar Mountain
PCMacWorldwide
Star Mountain is a fast paced 1v1 game where you must race to get a star before your opponent. Build your own platforms, and block your opponent to get to the star first! Featuring character customization, online and local multiplayer, and full controller support.
This yearFairground Online
PCWorldwide
Fairground Online - The ultimate simulator! Control rides, create light shows and accompany them with music. Experience realistic physics, detailed controls and the day-night cycle. Play online with friends worldwide and become part of the community!
This yearGarden Hunt
PCWorldwide
Watch out for sharp corners… Dash through a garden maze as a slug snail, collecting slimes while dodging enemies! A gooey, dot-eating style slime tag game!
This yearParcel Frenzy: Get To Work!
PCWorldwide
Run the warehouse while your boss relaxes on a beach. Sort packages by weight, stack pallets under 60kg, label them, manage power, and deal with failing machines. Everything costs money. Mess up and you’re fined. Keep it running, or the company goes under.
This yearKin and Quarry
PCWorldwide
An incremental mining adventure where you must dig into the earth to recover essence for your sacred Evertree. Mine, drill, and blast your way to the deepest depths, discovering rare artifacts and recruiting more kin to your cause along the way. Dig.
This yearTexas Twist Poker 3 Bandit's Run
PCWorldwide
A poker-infused tile-puzzler with the strategic depth of a roguelike deck-builder. Hunt notorious Bandits and break their curse by combining Jokers and upgrades to create the 10 best poker hands in a 52-card deck.
This yearTo the Finale.
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
What is music to you? In my eyes, music is a key, a key that can unlock the heart. People always compromise with so many things, locking their emotions, their hearts.
This yearBetter Days
PCWorldwide
This is a new type of PVE combat game that combines elements such as shooting, skill-based battles, exploration, search-and-destroy missions, PVE combat, survival in a free-roaming environment, vehicle control, and character customization.
This yearGranite Noir
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
Granite Noir: The Social Experiment is a first-person experimental game where YOU literally create the game for others. Enter a dark room. Wait 2 hours as a timer counts down to 00:00:00.
This yearBlooming
PCWorldwide
Blooming, is a 2D platformer action game. Use your bow, which can be turn into dual blades, to defeat your foes and explorer different areas in any order you want. Defeat bosses in order to absorb their power and get new abilities.
This year
This yearGiant Snake Girl Wants the Burger!
PCWeb browserWorldwide
One silly Tsuchinoko's epic journey to feed The Burger to her Giant Snake friend.
This yearSong of the Prairie
Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Farms, stories, exploration, and DIY are all the content you can experience on this free and magical land. No matter what kind of life you choose, please enjoy the surprises from this land as much as you can!
This yearForgotten at Fredbear's
PCWorldwide
In the aftermath of a tragic incident, the notorious diner remains open against all odds. Henry Emily and William Afton persist in their relentless work, striving to keep the restaurant afloat.
This year
This yearSebi 16
PCLinuxWorldwide
Sebi 16 packs sixteen curated singleplayer games into one charming collection: metroidvanias, puzzle games, platformers, a roguelike, and even a deck builder. Built with love in PICO-8!
This yearFurry House
PCWorldwide
The protagonist of a furry house is a boy forced by some events to move in with his mother. Making things difficult is that the mother and sisters are of another species, not human beings but furry!
This yearMesozoikum
PCWorldwide
Mesozoikum is an open-world dinosaur survival game and guides you through the atmospheric world of the Jura.
This yearJelly Battle
PCWorldwide
A simple pet care sim with puzzle-style battles! Take care of your jelly – feed it, play with it, clean it, customize it, and guide it through battles with other jellies!
This yearTo Clean The Mountain
PCWorldwide
To Clean The Mountain is a platforming adventure where you throw yourself towards the summit. The spirit of the mountain will talk with you as you traverse a variety of environments. Environments Handcrafted levels based on a variety of mountainous landscapes.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.