ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
May 5
The games released on this day in gaming history.
652 releases
20 Years AgoOver the Hedge
PortNintendo DSNorth America
In the video game, which takes place a year after the movie, RJ, Hammy, Verne, and the gang feel that they need to have more things for the log (the area behind the hedge).
20 Years AgoGarfield and His Nine Lives
Game Boy AdvanceWorldwide
The classic comic strip character Garfield is back – just as fat, lazy and lovable as ever! The cynical orange cat loves lasagne, coffee, and his remote control as well as his owner, the long-suffering Jon Arbuckle and the sweet but dumb dog Odie.
20 Years AgoPac-Man World 3
PortNintendo DSEurope
Pac-Man is teleported by Orson through 15 different levels to fight Erwin, his army of robots, monsters and Spectral Entities to save the world, Pac-Land and the Spectral Realm.
18 Years AgoCrossworDS
Nintendo DSNorth America
Crosswords DS supports up to four different players, and features two basic modes - Training and Main Game. The main game includes three classifications of puzzles - Crosswords, Word Searches, and Anagrams.
17 Years AgoNight at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian - The Video Game
PortNintendo DSNorth America
Get ready for a story so epic it could only unfold in the corridors of the world's largest museum--the Smithsonian Institution.
21 Years AgoNaruto: Ninja Council 2 - European Version
Nintendo DSWorldwide
Naruto: Ninja Council 2 European Version is the third instalment in the Ninja Council series and the first for the Nintendo DS. It was released in Japan as Naruto: Saikyō Ninja Daikesshu 3 for DS and in Europe as Naruto: Ninja Council 2 European Version.
39 Years AgoPuzzle Kingdoms
PortNintendo DSWorldwide
Puzzle Kingdoms challenges players to plan out strategic attacks in order to defeat their opponents. Order troops across the map, conquering cities through innovative puzzle gameplay.
Squirm
Nintendo DSWorldwide
This is a DS port of Squirm, a PacMan style arcade game, from Commodore 16. It reuses all original graphics, in attempts to remain as faithful as possible to the original version. Navigate around the maze while steering clear of the Squirms.
9 Years AgoPrey
Xbox OnePS4North AmericaEuropeAustralia
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong.
3 Years AgoHogwarts Legacy
PS4Xbox OneWorldwide
Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world.
17 Years AgoPlants vs. Zombies
PCMacWorldwide
Plants vs. Zombies is a tower defense game in which players protect their suburban home from waves of approaching zombies by placing various plants on a grid-based lawn.
11 Years AgoWolfenstein: The Old Blood
Standalone expansionXbox OnePS4Worldwide
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is a prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein: The New Order.
11 Years AgoGrim Fandango Remastered
RemasterAndroidiOSWorldwide
Something's rotten in the land of the dead, and you're being played for a sucker. Meet Manny Calavera, travel agent at the Department of Death. He sells luxury packages to souls on their four-year journey to eternal rest.
18 Years AgoGothic 3
PCWorldwide
Gothic 3 is a fantasy-themed role-playing game for Windows from the German game developer Piranha Bytes. It is the sequel to Gothic II. Although widely available in English, the native release of the game is German.
29 Years AgoMDK
DOSNorth America
The game tells the story of Kurt Hectic, a janitor who reluctantly must attempt to save Earth from an alien invasion of gigantic strip mining city-size vehicles named "Minecrawlers".
16 Years AgoPitfall!
Xbox 360PCWorldwide
Pitfall! is a video game designed by David Crane for the Atari 2600 and released by Activision in 1982. The player controls Pitfall Harry and is tasked with collecting all the treasures in a jungle within 20 minutes while avoiding obstacles and hazards.
13 Years AgoSaya no Uta
PCWorldwide
A horror visual novel about Fuminori Sakisaka, a medicine student who suffers an accident that leaves his perception of the world distorted: everything and everyone is perceived as a twisted mass of intestines, flesh and blood. Everything, except Saya.
22 Years AgoNeighbours from Hell 2: On Vacation
PCEurope
The reality TV show of neighbourly nastiness and community commotion moves on to the next round.
9 Years AgoDreamfall Chapters
Xbox OnePS4WorldwideNorth AmericaEurope
Dreamfall Chapters is an episodic, story-driven adventure game about choices and consequences, dreams and reality, magic and science, chaos and order, and the broken heroes whose actions will shape the course of history in all worlds.
4 Years AgoCitizen Sleeper
Xbox Series X|SPCXbox OneSwitchMacWorldwide
Roleplaying in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live the life of an escaped worker, washed-up on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society.
5 Years AgoAgar.io
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Agar.io is a massively multiplayer online game where players control a cell in a colorful, grid-like environment. The main goal is to grow your cell by consuming smaller cells scattered throughout the map, while avoiding being eaten by larger cells controlled by other players.
4 Years AgoTrek to Yomi
Xbox OnePS4Xbox Series X|SPS5PCWorldwide
As a vow to his dying Master, the young swordsman Hiroki is sworn to protect his town and the people he loves against all threats. Faced with tragedy and bound to duty, the lone samurai must voyage beyond life and death to confront himself and decide his path forward.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.