ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
May 9
The games released on this day in gaming history.
622 releases
12 Years AgoGrowtopia
AndroidWorldwide
Growtopia is a free-to-play sandbox MMO game with almost endless possibilities for world creation, customization and having fun with your friends. Enjoy thousands of items, challenges and events.
23 Years AgoIkaruga
PortGameCubeEurope
In this vertical scrolling spaceship shooter, you control a ship that can change its polarity at will. As blue/white, the ship can easily destroy red/black enemies, and visa versa.
12 Years AgoThe Culling of the Cows
PCWorldwideNorth America
The Culling Of The Cows is a side-scrolling shooter, tower defense game. You will take the role of Sammy, a soliloquising schizophrenic farmer with a self prophesied mission to lay waste to the disease spreading over his farm.
7 Years AgoSwag & Sorcery
PCWorldwide
Build your own fantasy village, create and equip your characters and send them to collect swag in Swag and Sorcery - a new streamlined RPG from the creators of Punch Club and Graveyard Keeper
6 Years AgoDelores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
Standalone expansionPCMacLinuxWorldwide
Delores is back home and working as a photographer for the Nickel News. Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year she’s been away… or has it?
13 Years AgoBlake Stone: Planet Strike
MacWorldwide
It's the 22nd century: Galactic travel is commonplace, peace is at hand, and the future looks bright - until Goldfire's plan to unleash an army of military mutants shocks the galaxy. Dr.
7 Years AgoAstrologaster
MacPCWorldwide
Astrologaster is an astrological comedy game in which you take the role of Simon Forman, Elizabethan Astrologer and doctor.
14 Years AgoDatura
PS3Europe
Explore the haunting world of Datura and embark on a voyage of mystery.
13 Years AgoStrike Commander
MacWorldwide
After the success of the Wing Commander games, Chris Roberts and Origin turned their eye to developing a story-focused combat flight simulation. The result was Strike Commander.
3 Years AgoStranded: Alien Dawn
Xbox OneXbox Series X|SNorth America
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
13 Years AgoMario and Donkey Kong: Minis on the Move
Nintendo 3DSEurope
A puzzle game where you have to place blocks on a game board and create a path for a "Mini" character to traverse. You must reach a certain goal area in a fix amount of time and have to opportunity to collect power ups along the way.
9 Years AgoBirthdays the Beginning
PCPS4WorldwideNorth AmericaEurope
"From the legendary creator, Mr. Yasuhiro Wada (TOYBOX Inc.), comes Birthdays the Beginning: a new sandbox game in which players create cube-shaped worlds that give rise to diverse and unique lifeforms.
3 Years AgoSuper Cars
PCWorldwide
Super Cars is a top-view racing game from Gremlin Interactive, who later produced the Lotus series of games. Stylistically, the game is influenced by Super Sprint.
15 Years AgoGarshasp: The Monster Slayer
PCWorldwide
Garshasp is based on ancient Persian mythology bringing to life the epic battles of the mythological hero, Garshasp, in the ancient lands against the evil monsters.
12 Years AgoLili: Child of Geos
PCWorldwideNorth America
Lili is a quirky adventure RPG hybrid with stunning visuals, silky-smooth graphics, a cinematic story-line, and a fresh new way to deal with enemies.
7 Years AgoBirdGut
MacPCWorldwide
BirdGut is a hand-drawn 2d puzzle-platformer from the perspective of an outcast bee who gets eaten by a bird, and discovers that the bird's internal organs are not organs at all, but facilities in which the consumed insects are brainwashed and enslaved.
4 Years AgoBoneraiser Minions
PCWorldwide
Amass an army of deamonic undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways!
2 Years AgoRabbit & Steel
PCWorldwide
Rabbit & Steel is a co-op roguelike where rabbits must team up together in raids to investigate strange happenings in the Moonlit Kingdom.
1 Year AgoSir Whoopass: Immortal Death
PS5Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Meet Sir Whoopass, the hero who due to a series of hilarious and poor life choices manages to bring chaos and disarray to an utopian world. He must find The Villain-Beating Artifact to vanquish The Immortal and stop him from spawning all manner of evil monsters and creatures.
1 Year AgoEyes: The Horror Game
Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Eyes: The Horror Game is a terrifying game of hide-and-seek where you play as a thief collecting hidden money bags inside a haunted building while avoiding deadly ghosts you cannot fight.
13 Years AgoSuper Sanctum TD
PCWorldwide
Super Sanctum TD is a retro-styled Tower Defense game that focuses on strategy, customization and replayability. Build advanced mazes and construct powerful towers to prevent alien hordes from reaching the Core!
9 Years AgoInjustice 2 Mobile
PortiOSWorldwide
The mobile companion game to the sequel to Netherrealm Studios' DC fighting game.
7 Years Ago
18 Years AgoSherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet
MacPCWorldwide
Hunker down at your London flat at 221b Baker St. The year is 1896, and Scotland Yard has called Sherlock Holmes with an urgent request for help. A young painter has been found murdered and rolled up in a remarkable Persian carpet.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.