ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 1
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1229 releases
8 Years AgoRoad to Ballhalla
PS4Xbox OneWorldwideNorth America
A snarky and rhythm-driven action game about rolling around. Prepare your balls for an epic journey to Ballhalla. Feel the rhythm to overcome deadly hazards and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year. May the torque be with you!
3 Years AgoWelcome to Kowloon
PCWorldwide
This is an indie horror from the first person, in which you find yourself in an area called Kowloon in search of cheap housing. The inhabitants of this place only at first glance seem to be ordinary people, but if we dig deeper, we will see their real faces.
13 Years AgoRymdkapsel
iOSWorldwide
Rymdkapsel is a slow, meditiative strategy game set in space. It builds upon the legacy of Martins earlier games by requiring minimal user input, but that doesn't make you a passenger.
12 Years AgoDandelion: Wishes Brought to You
PCMacWorldwide
Dandelion: Wishes Brought to You is a female-oriented game developed by Cheritz. The game was released in South Korea in August of 2012. The English translation for Dandelion was released in November of 2012.
9 Years AgoDreadnought
PS4EuropeNorth America
Players take command of massive capital ships in the sky within the title’s core competitive and cooperative multiplayer suite and its episodic, single-player, story-driven campaign.
8 Years AgoLove Nikki: Dress Up Queen
AndroidiOSAsia
Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is a free-to-play mobile game centered around fashion battles between titular player character Nikki and the people she encounters on her journey through fantastical fashion lands.
4 Years AgoThe Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak
PCAsia
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak is the eleventh installment in the main Trails series, serving as the beginning to the Calvard arc. The game follows Van Arkride who is working at Arkride Solutions Office as a Spriggan, a bounty hunting and private detective.
41 Years AgoBounty Bob Strikes Back!
C64North America
Bounty Bob returns in this new and exciting follow-up adventure to Miner 2049er. This time around it's even tougher than before and Bob needs your help more than ever to guide him through the mine.
35 Years AgoRod-Land
C64Worldwide
The player(s) control one or two fairies called Tam and Rit armed with a magic wand (rod). Following the concept of Taito's Bubble Bobble, the rod doesn't kill the monsters directly, but only leaves them immobilized, crying.
9 Years AgoAztez
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
In Aztez, you expand and maintain the Aztec empire through turn-based strategy, while managing violent outbreaks via real-time beat 'em up sequences.
13 Years AgoDisney Magical World
Nintendo 3DSJapan
Disney Magical World features dozens of Disney characters in a variety of Disney-themed worlds. Players can customize their characters with hundreds of Disney-themed outfits and accessories, all while managing a café, planting crops and collecting Disney character cards.
12 Years AgoLEGO Ninjago: Nindroids
PS VitaNintendo 3DSEurope
The highly popular LEGO Ninjago videogame franchise is back with high-kicking action and adventure! LEGO Ninjago: Nindroids comes to the Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation Vita this summer.
9 Years AgoThe Monster Inside
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
A film noir style audio-visual novella. A mysterious woman... a string of murders... and a man with a hidden past.
7 Years AgoPandemic: The Board Game
SwitchXbox OneNorth AmericaWorldwide
A digital translation of the popular board game. As skilled members of a disease-fighting team, you must keep four deadly diseases at bay while discovering their cures. Travel the world, treat infections, and find cures.
2 Years AgoBroken Roads
SwitchWorldwide
Broken Roads was born of a love for traditional isometric computer role-playing, and will provide a rich, engaging narrative in which players make their way across a desolated Australia.
41 Years AgoMaster of the Lamps
Amstrad CPCAtari 8-bitEuropeNorth America
Master of the Lamps is one of the first music video games. It was inspired by tales compiled in One Thousand and One Nights. Gameplay alternates between two modes.
40 Years AgoPhantasie
PC-88PC-98Japan
The Isle of Gelnor is divided by a chain of mountains into two regions. The west is the traditional domain of human and humanoid beings - with a few renegade Orcs and Lizardmen - dedicated to order and goodness.
35 Years AgoSecret Weapons of the Luftwaffe
DOSWorldwide
After the success of the simulation titles Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain® and Battlehawks 1942 in the late 80s, LucasArts decided to follow up those games with another World War II simulation title: Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe.
28 Years AgoChessmaster 5000
PCEurope
Chessmaster 5000, released as the 10th Anniversary edition, introduced a new 32-bit engine, a Windows 95 interface with pop-up menus and long file name support, and a database of over 27,000 games.
41 Years AgoSpy vs. Spy II: The Island Caper
C64North America
A follow-up to the first Spy vs Spy game now sees the spies stranded on a desert island. This time, instead of the four items which allow you to leave for the airport, the spies must try to collect 3 pieces of a missile.
41 Years AgoPinball Construction Set
PC-88Japan
Pinball Construction Set created a new genre of video games - the "builder" or "construction set" class of games. Users can construct their own virtual pinball machine, by dropping controls onto a table.
37 Years AgoA Nightmare on Elm Street
C64DOSWorldwide
A Nightmare of Elm Street is an action game based on the movie of the same name, where the player attempts to free friends from the grasp of the evil Freddy Krueger.
36 Years AgoCadaver
AmigaAtari ST/STEDOSWorldwide
Cadaver is an isometric action-adventure game by the Bitmap Brothers, originally released by Image Works in 1990, for Atari ST, Amiga, MS-DOS and Acorn Archimedes. In the game the player controls Karadoc the dwarf.
18 Years AgoSBK 08: Superbike World Championship
PSPEurope
SBK-X: Superbike World Championship is a motorcycle racing game developed by Milestone s.r.l. and published by Black Bean Games in 2010. The game features three modes of gameplay: the arcade mode, the simulation mode and the multiplayer mode.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.