ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
May 18
The games released on this day in gaming history.
640 releases
3 Years AgoNo One Lives Under the Lighthouse
PS4PS5SwitchXbox OneXbox Series X|SWorldwideNorth America
A retro horror game, in which you arrive at the old lighthouse on a small island near the coast of the United States. After the previous keeper has gone missing, you need to take over his duties and watch after the light.
16 Years AgoRunaway 3: A Twist of Fate
PCNorth America
Runaway: A Twist of Fate is a point-and-click graphical adventure. It is a game developed by Péndulo Studios, S.L. and the sequel of Runaway 2: The Dream of The Turtle, as well as the third and final chapter in the Runaway series.
3 Years AgoSupraland: Six Inches Under
Xbox OneXbox Series X|SPS4PS5Worldwide
Supraland Six Inches Under has exploration, puzzles, and combat! A first-person-metroidvania taking place six inches under Supraland.
14 Years AgoThe Journey Down: Chapter One
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
In a shady corner of Kingsport Bay at the outskirts of St Armando, Bwana and his trusted sidekick Kito struggle to make ends meet at their run-down gas station.
21 Years AgoFate
PCNorth America
Live the adventurer’s life in this character-based fantasy game. Choose your character and pet companion as you journey through limitless caverns, dungeons, and tunnels and determine your destiny.
20 Years AgoX-Men: The Official Game
PCXbox 360Europe
X-Men: The Official Game (also known as X3: The Official Game) is Activision's tie-in video game to the 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand.
9 Years AgoMages of Mystralia
PCWorldwide
Accompany Zia as she strikes off to train and learn to control her magical abilities that had her exiled.
19 Years AgoTop Spin 2
PCWorldwide
Everything you loved about Top Spin is back and made even better. The peerless player-creator is reborn with the powerful Digital Identity that truly puts you in the game.
10 Years AgoYoshi Touch & Go
Wii UJapan
Yoshi and Baby Mario are back together at long last, and it'll take a steady hand to guide them through their latest adventure. As Yoshi charges across the island, you use the stylus to throw eggs at enemies, lead him to egg-replenishing fruit, and make him jump over danger.
5 Years AgoLeisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice
SwitchPS4Xbox OneWorldwide
Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice invites players to slip back into the leather pants of self-titled heartthrob and try-hard ladies man Larry Laffer as he sets out to find his true love, the divinely delightful Faith.
3 Years AgoEastern Exorcist
Xbox OneXbox Series X|SNorth America
The Eastern Exorcist is a stunning 2D side-scrolling action RPG set in a fictitious oriental world with the infestation of vicious demon monsters.
2 Years AgoIndigo Park
PCWorldwide
Indigo Park is an immersive first-person exploration game that takes you on a thrilling journey through the eerie remnants of an abandoned amusement park.
10 Years AgoDuskers
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
In Duskers you pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard. You are a drone operator, surrounded by old gritty tech that acts as your only eyes and ears to the outside world.
3 Years AgoCrossfireX
Xbox OneXbox Series X|SWorldwide
CrossfireX delivers an intense first-person shooter experience where players are immersed in a sprawling global conflict between the world’s two most formidable private military factions: Global Risk employs veterans of powerful armed force…
19 Years AgoCooking Mama: Cook Off
WiiAustralia
Cooking Mama is the follow-on game after the Nintendo DS Cooking Mama game. This time mama teaches you to cook up some delicious international dishes from 10 different countries.
10 Years AgoAssassin's Creed Identity
AndroidWorldwide
Assassin's Creed: Identity is the first Assassin’s Creed Action RPG game for mobile devices that lets you create, evolve and customize your own Assassins and play them in Fan’s favorite setting: Renaissance Italy.
5 Years AgoJust Act Natural
PCMacWorldwide
An asymmetric online multiplayer party game where one group of players hide among a crowd of NPCs doing various tasks while other players seek them out from above.
3 Years AgoChasm: The Rift
SwitchPS4PS5Xbox OneXbox Series X|SWorldwide
Humankind, in the process of evolution, has encountered a mysterious phenomenon - the destruction of the normal flow of time. From the past to the future, time rifts are forming in Earth's atmosphere. These rifts lead to different periods of history.
16 Years AgoRocket Knight
PS3North America
Rocket Knight is a classic side-scrolling rocket action series. Our favorite opossum hero returns home after 15 years to find the kingdom of Zephyrus in shambles.
16 Years AgoTrauma Team
WiiNorth America
Encounter unprecedented depth across six distinct fields of medicine: play as a general surgeon, diagnostician, E.M.T., orthopedic surgeon, endoscope technician, and medical examiner.
5 Years AgoNiffelheim
iOSWorldwide
Niffelheim is a 2D action exploration game in a Nordic fantasy setting, with a huge hand-drawn world. Battle monsters, build castles, explore dungeons and conquer enemy lands. Triumph against the ancient forces that rule over this harsh world.
10 Years AgoDr. Mario
PortNintendo 3DSKorea
Dr. Mario is a falling block tile-matching video game, in which Mario assumes the role of a doctor, dropping two-colored medical capsules into a medicine bottle representing the playing field.
9 Years AgoBio Inc. Redemption
PCWorldwide
Bio Inc.: Redemption is a biomedical simulator in which you make life or death decisions. Create the ultimate illness to torment your victim or play as the head of a medical team and hopefully find a cure to save your patient.
3 Years AgoNightmare Reaper
SwitchPS4PS5Xbox OneXbox Series X|SWorldwideEuropeNorth America
Nightmare Reaper is a dark and violent meld of retro and modern action games, mainly inspired by the classic 2.5D first person shooters of the 90s like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Blood, Rise of the Triad and Wolfenstein 3D.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.