ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
May 2
The games released on this day in gaming history.
677 releases
12 Years AgoReversion: The Escape -1st Chapter
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Reversion is a science-fiction Point&Click Adventure Game. You will be propelled to a desolate future, robbed of your memories and looking desperately for a clue to understanding your predicament.
9 Years AgoBeach Head 2000
MacWorldwide
A first person shooter where you defend a beach from an oncoming invasion with one gun emplacement.
18 Years AgoColumns III
WiiEurope
Arrange the blocks of jewels falling from the top of the screen. If three or more jewels of the same colour are lined up vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, they disappear. Don’t allow them to pile up to the top, or you will lose the game.
12 Years AgoThe Lost Vikings
PortPCWorldwide
The PC port lacks second player to play the other vikings, backgrounds are pure black, the HUD is put at the bottom of the screen. In 2014 the game was added to Battle.net as a free download emulated through DOSBox.
9 Years AgoThe Caligula Effect
PS VitaWorldwide
Featuring a story written by Persona veteran Tadashi Satomi, The Caligula Effect takes you inside a digital prison filled with brainwashed high school students, evil musicians, and an all-powerful virtual idol.
4 Years AgoPictoQuest: The Cursed Grids
PS4Europe
Challenge your deductive skills by helping our two young heroes on their quest to bring the legendary paintings of Pictoria back!
2 Years AgoTouhou Mystia's Izakaya
SwitchWorldwide
This is a brand new izakaya simulation gameplay. The young night sparrow and her BBQ has become a welcome sight in Gensokyo with her hard work and flourishing business-that is, until one day, that fateful enemy showed up whom broke her dream.
12 Years AgoSly 3: Honor Among Thieves
RemasterPS VitaKorea
A remastered version of Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, released as part of The Sly Collection for PlayStation 3 in 2010. Developed by Sanzaru Games, it features enhanced HD visuals, Trophy support, and stereoscopic 3D compatibility while retaining the original gameplay and content.
9 Years AgoSuper Rude Bear Resurrection
PS4Worldwide
Super Rude Bear Resurrection is a super tight masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Every time you die your corpse stays behind – making the game easier.
2 Years AgoEndless Ocean: Luminous
SwitchWorldwide
Dive in and survey a mysterious underwater world. Take a deep breath and plunge into the Veiled Sea: an unexplored region with discoveries that change with each dive. Encounter and learn about over 500 species of marine life—some of which are presumed extinct, or even mythical!
1 Year AgoSpellcaster University
SwitchPS4PS5Xbox OneXbox Series X|SWorldwide
Develop a prestigious university of mages. Build rooms, train your students, fight orcs, slay the bureaucrats, manage your budget... a director's life is not a quiet one.
13 Years AgoSorcery!
iOSWorldwide
From legendary designer Steve Jackson, co-founder of Lionhead Studios (with Peter Molyneux), and Fighting Fantasy and Games Workshop (with Ian Livingstone); and inkle, the studio behind the award-winning Frankenstein app, Sorcery! is an interactive adventure like never before.
7 Years AgoWorld End Syndrome
SwitchPS4North America
Set in the sea town of Mihate when the protagonist moves there and begins to attend a new school. He hears of a local legend in which the dead come back to life every 100 years and are known as "Yomibito." A missing high school girl could signal the return of the Yomibito.
7 Years AgoDetective Di: The Silk Rose Murders
PCMacWorldwide
A beautifully pixelated point-and-click thriller set in ancient China where you play as the legendary detective Di Renjie.
7 Years AgoVenture Kid
SwitchNorth America
A 8-bit retro action platformer that goes beyond just pixels and chiptunes
6 Years AgoAntigraviator
Xbox OneNorth America
In the year 2210, racing has evolved far beyond its expected limits. New terraforming capabilities paired with scientific breakthroughs in the field of antigravity have given birth to a new spectacle: the Antigraviator tournament.
20 Years AgoUltimate Duck Hunting
PCWorldwide
Ultimate Duck Hunting is a duck hunting video game developed by Mid Carolina Media. The goal of the game is to shoot ducks and then collect them with hunting dogs, a concept similar to that of the classic NES game, Duck Hunt.
19 Years AgoCatan
Xbox 360Worldwide
Catan, based on the popular board game "Settlers of Catan", is a game of production, trading, and building in which players compete to develop the most successful colony on the island.
12 Years AgoAkane the Kunoichi
PCWorldwide
You are Akane, a Kunoichi ninja secretely loving her master Goro, a noble samurai. One day Goro is kidnapped by the evil Hiromi - you have to rescue him, but it won't be an easy task!
7 Years AgoGiga Wrecker Alt.
SwitchWorldwide
GIGA WRECKER ALT. combines frantic platforming, intense combat and physics-based puzzle challenges into one exciting adventure. By destroying robotic enemies and the world around her, Reika can form the resulting debris into all manner of weapons and tools.
2 Years AgoTriggerheart Exelica
SwitchWorldwide
Triggerheart Exelica is a vertically scrolling Japanese arcade shooter with a little bit of everything: fast-paced action, scalable difficulty, massive hordes of enemy Ver'mith, and cute humanoid weapons who can either shoot down enemy ship…
20 Years AgoBand of Bugs
Xbox 360Worldwide
Maal is an unhappy bug who needs structure and a purpose in his life, so he joins the royal army under the tutelage of the battle-hardened mantis warrior Tiernan. Now, he must begin his quest to save the Queen and the kingdom.
14 Years AgoVelocity
PSPPS3Europe
Velocity is a shoot 'em up involving navigating the Quarp Jet: a teleporting spacecraft – through space, whilst avoiding and defeating enemies using bombs that can be flung in cardinal directions. The main goal of the game is to rescue stranded ships.
12 Years AgoHeroes Rise: The Prodigy
PCMacLinuxiOSAndroidWorldwide
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero?
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.