ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
May 16
The games released on this day in gaming history.
730 releases
19 Years AgoAegis Wing
Xbox 360Worldwide
Ready to save the universe from an Araxian invasion? Challenge them solo or recruit up to three friends for an all-out assault. Feeling lucky? Try it on Insane mode – the rewards are greater but the name is all too accurate.
23 Years AgoMotoGP 2
XboxEurope
MotoGP returns with challenging tracks, different gameplay modes, and online play. In MotoGP 2, you'll race against the top 20 riders in the world at speeds of 180mph around turns and corners with your knee inches from the ground.
9 Years AgoFarpoint
PlayStation VRNorth America
Farpoint is an unnerving VR space adventure set on a hostile alien planet. On a mission to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, a rupture from the anomaly transports the player and scientists to an unknown alien world.
3 Years AgoSuper Bunny Man
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
A physics-based couch-coop platformer about a guy in a rabbit costume. Beat levels, time attacks, find hidden carrots, all while evading spikes, boulders, pitfalls, and other challenges.
2 Years AgoThe House of Da Vinci 2
PS4PS5North AmericaEurope
The long awaited sequel to The House of Da Vinci is finally here. Join more than 1.000.000 players from around the world and dive into the 3D puzzle adventure.
7 Years AgoFeudal Alloy
PS4Europe
It's a metroidvania-style action RPG with fishbowl-powered medieval robots! Explore a huge medieval world, improve your combat skills by smashing a lot of mechanic creatures and talk to other robots using unique animated dialogues.
7 Years AgoIrony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Irony Curtain: From Matryoshka with Love is a satirical point-and-click inspired by the classic adventure games.
13 Years AgoSonic the Hedgehog
RemasterAndroidiOSWorldwideNorth America
A remastered port of Sonic the Hedgehog for mobile platforms, adding many improvements over the original version, such as the spindash, widescreen support and new playable characters.
23 Years AgoReturn to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War
Expanded editionXboxEurope
Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Tides of War is an updated re-release for the Xbox based on the original PC version Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
2 Years AgoArctic Eggs
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
A Sci-Fi Cooking game where you take up the role of a Poultry Peddler stuck in Antarctica and longing for a way out. Sell your illegal eggs to those who look hungry.
19 Years AgoBoxhead: 2Play Rooms
Web browserWorldwide
An isometric third-person shooter in which you (and a friend) dispatch waves of zombies and devils, all with the titular box heads, by shooting them with different weaponry and using explosives you collect or barricading yourself in your st…
10 Years Ago
7 Years Ago39 Days to Mars
SwitchWorldwideNorth America
39 Days to Mars is a co-operative (and single-player) steampunk puzzle-adventure game. Step into the shoes of Sir Albert Wickes and The Right Honourable Clarence Baxter, two 19th century explorers who have chosen to pilot the HMS Fearful on its maiden voyage to Mars.
7 Years AgoSpark the Electric Jester 2
PCWorldwide
Following right after the ending of the original Spark the Electric Jester, you'll take control of Fark, now in the third dimension, in his quest to find out his true identity! Speed through several fast paced platforming stages, action packed bosses and fully animated cutscenes.
7 Years AgoDeath End Re;Quest
PCWorldwide
A new RPG for the PS4 from Compile Heart, part of their Galapagos RPG project. The game is about saving someone trapped in a virtual reality MMORPG by both going into the game yourself and trying to figure out what happened outside of the game.
18 Years AgoAdvanced Busterhawk Gley Lancer
WiiEurope
Advanced Busterhawk Gley Lancer, commonly known as Gleylancer (グレイランサー), is a 1992 Sega Mega Drive shoot-'em-up by NCS released exclusively in Japan (despite having some of its text, such as in the Mover configuration screen described below, in near-perfect English).
17 Years AgoLearn to Fly
Web browserWorldwide
Grab your rockets and glider to show the world a penguin can fly!
14 Years AgoNancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen
PCWorldwide
Enter the Cursed Tomb of the Lost Queen! Egyptologists and archaeologists are abuzz about recent discoveries by a university dig team, but suspicious accidents left the group isolated and leaderless. Is a curse burying their progress or is someone sabotaging their success?
14 Years AgoAkai Katana
Xbox 360North America
"Akai Katana" is a horizontally scrolling shooter bullet hell developed by Cave and released in Japan on August 20, 2010 for arcades. A port to the Xbox 360 with additional game modes, "Akai Katana Shin", followed on May 26, 2011 in Japan.
13 Years AgoSaint Seiya Online
PCJapan
Saint Seiya Online is a free to play MMORPG from China-based Perfect World, the publisher of Forsaken World, RaiderZ, and Rise of Europe.
9 Years AgoBounty Train
MacPCNorth America
Immerse yourself in the dangerous world of America’s Wild West – as you encounter famous historical events of the late 1800’s and come up against some of the amazing inventions of this period.
3 Years AgoBus Simulator 21
PS5Worldwide
Experience the daily life of a bus driver in two open world cities either in the USA or Europe. Drive up to 30 licensed buses by international manufacturers, including a double-decker and e-buses.
14 Years AgoDeus Ex: The Conspiracy
PortPS3Europe
Deus Ex: The Conspiracy was the 2002 PlayStation 2 port of the original PC Game from 2000.
12 Years AgoFrederic: Resurrection of Music
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Frederic Chopin – a long time deceased classical compositor – returns back from beyond the grave to fight intense musical duels. In his way stand some of the worlds greatest pop stars charmed with enormous profits that wild commercialization provides
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.