ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
July 4
The games released on this day in gaming history.
544 releases
16 Years AgoSwarm Arena
PCWorldwide
Get ready for a brand new experience! Take control of a virtual organism, develop your moves and become one with the swarm – then the game has only just begun. Swarm Arena’s fresh and deep gameplay is a journey from relaxing aesthetics over mind-blowing action to pure tactics.
14 Years AgoI Shall Remain
PCWorldwide
An Action RPG at its core, I Shall Remain combines role-playing elements with survival and strategic aspects, and creates a blend never before seen.
14 Years AgoBasketBelle
PCWorldwide
BasketBelle is an experimental 2D basketball-based platformer. Each Chapter of the game uses the mechanics and idea of basketball in a different way. At one point you might be dribbling inside the intestines of a purple blob creature (what?).
12 Years AgoMax Gentlemen
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Max Gentlemen is an arcade-style extreme manners simulator about stacking hats, inspired by a spam email for male enhancement. Challenge your friends. Prove once and for all who is the most gentlemanly. Seriously though, 2 player is super fun.
12 Years AgoAmazing World
PCMacWorldwide
The evil Queen Vexa and her minions have invaded Amazing World. Now the Zings need YOU to help save their beloved home! Choose your character and jump right into tons of quests, mini-games, and multiplayer events as you explore this family friendly, fully featured 3D MMO!
9 Years AgoWalden, a game
PS4MacWorldwide
Take on Henry David Thoreau's classic adventure in living simply in nature as you explore this epic open world game based on the story of Thoreau's life in the woods alone at Walden Pond.
9 Years AgoMetamorfose S
PCWorldwide
Metamorfose S is a 2D action-adventure game with RPG elements.
8 Years Ago18 Floors
PlayStation VRPCWorldwideNorth America
18 Floors is a VR experience combining room escape gameplay with puzzle elements. Players are transported to a mystic and foreboding space, where they must complete interconnected puzzle to escape each sealed room.
8 Years AgoGnomes Garden 3: The Thief of Castles
Xbox OneWorldwide
Gnomes Garden 3 — a new chapter in this exciting fantasy/strategy game. Head off into unknown lands and defeat the warlock!
7 Years AgoRuins Survival
PCWorldwide
Ruins Survival is a game in the genre of survival in the ruined world of the future. Players will struggle for survival with an unknown enemy, unpredictable wild world and other survivors.
3 Years AgoAmerican Hero
PS5Worldwide
A restoration and remaster of a game lost to time for over 25 years, American Hero was originally designed for the Atari Jaguar CD as a “playable movie” with a groundbreaking, more fluid presentation than the FMV games of its time.
3 Years AgoThe Settlers: New Allies
SwitchPS4Xbox OneWorldwide
"Nearly 30 years after the debut of The Settlers, the legendary build-up real-time strategy series returns to Windows PC." "Forced to leave their homelands after a devastating earthquake of mysterious origins, the Settlers set sail towards…
40 Years AgoClimber
Game & WatchNorth America
Climber is a Game & Watch video game released in the Crystal Screen format in 1986 and the New Wide Screen format in 1988. The game was never released in Japan, and an estimated 250,000 of the New Wide Screen version were produced by Nintendo.
40 Years AgoAlpha
PC-98Japan
Alpha is a science-fiction adventure game released in 1986 using a command input system where players take on the role of Chris as she meets various people and goes on an adventure on board a space ship.
39 Years AgoLaplace no Ma
PC-88PC-98Japan
Laplace´s Demon is a Sweet Home-like RPG and it takes place in a suburb of Boston in 1924. You can pick from one of six or so classes at the start of the game (Detective, Journalist, Psychic, etc) and you can recruit other members, and it plays a lot like a normal RPG.
31 Years AgoJumpStart 1st Grade
PCNorth America
The original 1995 edition of Jumpstart 1st Grade. Join Frankie and his friends in an interactive classroom filled with animation and song. Take field trips to the beach and zoo.
30 Years AgoWishbone and the Amazing Odyssey
PCWorldwide
Wishbone has been zapped inside the combobulator and the only way out is to re-enact Homer's Odyssey. The game begins in Troy, where the player picks up the crew roster and some wine.
27 Years AgoDeluxe Ski Jump
DOSWorldwide
Deluxe Ski Jump is a shareware ski jumping simulation with full 3D graphics and simulated physics. The game contains 16 different hills, which vary in size from the tiny K50 in England to the huge K250 in Slovenia.
26 Years AgoPro Pinball: Fantastic Journey
MacWorldwide
Roll up! Roll up! Travel back to Victorian times with five steam-powered adventures.
24 Years AgoArc the Lad: Kijin Fukkatsu
WonderSwan ColorJapan
A spin-off story in the Arc the Lad series featuring Elc form the second game. Was only released in Japan.
24 Years AgoMagi Death Fight: Mahou Gakuen
XboxJapan
Magi Death Fight is a top-down action game. There are two game modes: a single-player/cooperative campaign and multiplayer deathmatch mode, supporting up to four players.
23 Years AgoYukigatari Renewal
Expanded editionPCJapan
The protagonist's little sister appears as a new character. Scenarios have been remade since the Dreamcast release, and new event CGs and endings added. This version also adds voices for the male characters which original only female characters were.
23 Years AgoRevive... Sosei
PCJapan
The protagonist of the game, a high-school student, finds himself and other characters (mostly female high school students) trapped in a marine research facility. Exploring the abandoned building, the hero discovers the research staff died under mysterious circumstances.
21 Years AgoTantei Kibukawa Ryousuke Jiken-tan: Vol. 5 - Kurai Hako no Ue
MobileJapan
Immediately after the "Masque of Fantasy Murder Case,'' Renji Mirokuin, a freelance writer who is active in books related to the occult and is a friend of Masao Ikurumi, goes to an apartment in the suburbs for an interview.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.