ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
April 17
The games released on this day in gaming history.
721 releases
This yearLast Shinobi
PCWorldwide
Dive into a tactical roguelike where every decision counts. Build a unique strategy, unlock new skills and companions, and refine your synergies. Each level is a strategic puzzle to solve. No deck, minimal randomness, only strategic choices.
This yearConvenience Store Simulator
PCWorldwide
A game about running and managing your own convenience store. Actively work the register, master stock and inventory, make and sell coffee, hire unique staff, and fully decorate your space. Strategically expand your business and play special mini-games for prizes.
This yearFremd Wagen: Mod Chaos
PCWorldwide
Fremd Wagen: Modding Mayhem. The ultimate frustrating mathematical mod simulator. To stop the crashes, ensure your Mod Sum obeys the Rule of 42. Install the bypass fix, clean the DLLs, and solve the equation. Failure results in a 0xC0000005 crash!
This year5-Minute Maid
PCWorldwide
Rimu has lost her memory and become trapped in a looping phenomenon. Moreover, only a tiny fraction of her memories carry over between loops. Within each five-minute cycle, she must retain only the crucial “memories” while setting the necessary flags.
This yearInhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
PS5Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
This yearWrite Warz
MacPCWorldwide
Dive into Write Warz, where creativity clashes in thrilling story battles! Craft sentences, vote on favorites, and navigate plot twists in diverse themed worlds. Unleash your imagination in this multiplayer creative writing adventure one sentence at a time.
This yearGeneration Exile
PCWorldwide
Generation Exile is a turn-based city-builder taking place aboard a generation starship where instead of extracting more and more natural resources to meet your populace’s needs, you only have what you brought with you.
This yearPhazika
PCWorldwide
Click to freeze time. Release to redirect your momentum. That's all you need. Bend time and wrangle physics as you dodge bullets and zigzag through impossible obstacles in the abstract psychedelic worlds of this roguelike/speedrunning joyride.
This yearTacticell Arena
PCWorldwide
Tacticell Arena is a 2D top-down shooter centered on tactical squad management with a primary focus on local PvP. The game features shared-screen gameplay where each player controls a squad of three soldiers.
This yearAirborne Empire
PCMacWorldwide
Build, manage, and grow your unique city in the skies. Traverse a vast and rich open world full of exotic technologies, relentless dangers, and many hidden treasures. Defend your inhabitants – and the kingdoms below! – from destructive attacks.
This yearCralon
PCPS5Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Cralon is an authentic 3D dungeon crawler with RPG and adventure elements, inspired by the ultimate dungeon classics. Hunting a demon, you fell into the abyss of an old mine. Equip yourself, fight creatures, solve quests, uncover secrets and find a way out.
This yearNeve
PCWorldwide
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of history.
This yearE.S.O: Don't Forget
PCWorldwide
A terrifying test of memory. Escape the creatures and don't forget what door you've been assigned...
This yearSunlit Journey
PCWorldwide
Sunlit Journey: The Town Small Town is a short, heartwarming visual novel. As the opening chapter of an ongoing series, it centers on gentle everyday life and tells a tender encounter set in a quiet small town.
This year
This yearVenice After Dark
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
A visual novel adventure alongside young Japanese engineer Aiko and her AI friend. Solve the mysterious case around the Stucky family and unravel what it means to be human through the eyes of an AI programmer.
This yearTokyo Trigger
PCWorldwide
Tokyo 2050 glows with neon, but darkness simmers beneath. Akihito, a warrior with a fractured past, uncovers a plot threatening the city. Blast through a top-down cyberpunk world in this fast-paced 2D shooter.
This yearStarlight Mining Company
PCWorldwide
Build and defend your base to mine starlight crystals in this roguelike co-op tower defense! Carve paths, build defenses, and upgrade your operation as 1-4 players battling escalating waves of hostile threats across a procedurally generated galaxy.
This year
This yearDark Edge
PCWorldwide
DARK EDGE is a medieval-themed action game. As darkness approaches, plagues and zombies relentlessly consume the homeland. Players will manage and build city-states, recruit warriors, investigate plagues, and resist zombies and monsters.
This yearSkatr
PCWorldwide
SKATR is an inline skating game where you skate fast and do cool tricks. Do advanced tricks for more points and maintain max speed! It's also just fun 2 skate around.
This yearProject Dejavu
MacPCWorldwide
Blast, dodge, and drift through treacherous 3D mazes in a vibrant, retro-inspired tank platformer! Master twitch-action combat, survive bullet-hell showdowns, and uncover shortcuts to conquer nearly 50 challenging stages. One wrong move, and you're sunk!
This yearDead 4 Now: Bio-weapon Simulator
PCWorldwide
Craft bio-weapons, master lethal science, and unleash global annihilation. Experiment. Fail. Adapt. Evolve. Repeat until humankind falls.
This yearSurvivor TD
PCWorldwide
A tactical defense game where you build the battlefield itself. Lure enemies through your maze using traps, towers, and godly powers.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.