ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
May 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1145 releases
This yearRogue Voltage
LinuxPCWorldwide
The engineering roguelike. Construct your combos by wiring circuits. Build crazy machines to zap the monsters and trigger satisfying chain reactions. Discover devastating synergies and create overpowered builds.
This yearEarly Bird Gets the Space Worm
PCWorldwide
Early Bird gets the Space Worm is a small, casual, incremental game about collecting Space Worms. Explore the expansive skill tree to unlock ever larger birds, upgradeable weapons, and destroy all the things.
This yearDie in the Dungeon
Expanded editionMacPCWorldwide
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike where you don't use cards, but dice!
This yearArcane Angler
Web browserAndroidWorldwide
Arcane Angler is a fishing MMORPG where players embark on an adventure to catch rare and mystical fish, level up their skills, collect powerful gears, and compete on global leaderboards.
This yearGlitchers
PCWorldwide
Lost in a strange universe, Trix must team up with a brute-force heroine on the brink of death to find the pieces of a legendary armor and defeat a cruel Emperor who seeks to wipe out all the heroes of the Ruled Earth.
This yearMemoria Arcana
PCWorldwide
A single-player card game of memory and fate. Reveal cards to form poker-style combos, earn points, and overcome cursed stages that twist your field. Unlock and upgrade Arcana cards to alter runs and reshape destiny with every turn.
This yearExit Loops: Street 001
PCWorldwide
You are trapped in a never-ending street loop. Observe your surroundings carefully and identify anomalies. Make the right choice at the end of each street and try to escape the loop.
This yearSpookY2K
PCWorldwide
You wake up on a cold bathroom floor, only to discover that you somehow time travelled to a Halloween party in 1999! As you try to make sense of your situation and get closer to the other guests, will your clueless involvement let the party take a deadly turn?
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This yearCommon Loot
Web browserWorldwide
Common Loot is an interactive music video for MC Frontalot's song of the same name. It can be completed within roughly the length of the song (2:56). In this simple dungeon crawler, players must kill enemies and gather loot to sell.
This yearTomb Raider: Side-Scroller Edition
PCWorldwide
This project reimagines the classic Tomb Raider games through a 2D side-scrolling lens. Re-experience familiar locations, redesigned with new platforming challenges and traps unique to the side-scrolling perspective!
This yearDemon Huntress
PS5Worldwide
Demon Huntress is a top-down roguelike shooter built around fast combat, endless progression, and outrageous power scaling. Each run sends you through three randomized worlds chosen from five distinct areas, each filled with demons, traps, treasures, and escalating danger.
This yearBecoming Captain
PCWorldwide
Dive into a unique Roguelike Deckbuilder experience with Becoming Captain, set in a sci-fi realm where piracy is nearly eradicated—except on the notorious Calamity. Will you become its captain or die trying?
This yearMatreshka
PCWorldwide
Matreshka is a first-person psychological horror experience, you must navigate a maze of old soviet building by elevator. Searching for a way to escape.
This yearASCII Survivors
PCLinuxWorldwide
Everything is ASCII. A survivor-like roguelite where every monster, bullet, and explosion is made of text on a CRT screen. 8 characters, 16 weapons, 6 enchantments, 4 game modes. See how long your terminal holds.
This yearPath of The Runecaster
PCWorldwide
Defeat massive hordes of enemies to grow ever more powerful! Unlock new runes and spells to create insane combinations! Gain tons of experience and learn the true meaning of the Runecaster’s path.
This yearLumo Idle Park
PCWorldwide
Welcome to Lumo Idle Park a relaxing idle game with a visual style inspired by the colorful, vibrant world of early 2000s Sega games.
This yearEmoji Bomb
PCWorldwide
A collection of super-fast micro-games in just 5 seconds! Challenge records with reflexes and concentration in a variety of emoji mini-games!
This yearFinCrementalOS
PCWorldwide
Blast away with a submarine's cannon and sort your desktop for minigames in this incremental fish shooting and simulated operating system hybrid!
This yearMonster Ops 18
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Season 2 of Monster Ops! Black Ops soldiers Wraith and Tide know the world is against them, and they can only rely on each other. Two soldiers, forced to go rogue, with a desperate mission.
This yearDostavka
PCWorldwide
In DOSTAVKA, you’ll have to survive an alien invasion — but even worse, survive a shift as a fast food worker!
This yearTo the Sunset
PCWorldwide
Yuto, a lethargic shut-in, steps out into the outside world through the “action button,” which becomes active when pressed. A 3D adventure game that lets you look into Youto's daily life while making full use of the action buttons.
This yearWhich hand?
PCWorldwide
Solve the titan’s riddle, uncovering more hidden rules and connections each time you try
This yearStubborn Shibas
PCWorldwide
A tricky puzzle game full of some seriously stubborn Shibas!
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.