ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 4
The games released on this day in gaming history.
717 releases
This yearSlot Grind
MacPCWorldwide
Slot Grind is an incremental slot machine game where you spin, earn money, and put it back into upgrades. Unlock new machines with better payouts, improve them, and automate your slots as your profits grow, until you finally pay off your debts.
This yearIt Consumes
PCWorldwide
It Consumes is a roguelite arena-FPS in the dark. See by beating your heart and kill demons shrouded in shadows. Upgrade your abilities, unlock new weapons, and conquer what lurks in the darkness.
This yearBloodmoon Survivors
MacPCWorldwide
You are a Lunar Knight of the blood moon, and tonight is your night. It's time for violence. Slay the twisted horrors conjured by the moon in this horde survival roguelite.
This yearWhere Are You?
PCLinuxWorldwide
Where Are You? is a story-driven 2D adventure about curiosity, loss, and the search for truth — and about the question of whether values can survive when truth is forgotten.
This yearSpinning Scarecrow
PCWorldwide
A dark arcade puzzle game where a Spinning Scarecrow faces deadly traps, grotesque minigames, and precision challenges in a fully hand-drawn world.
This yearDisturbing Fears: Workplace
PCWorldwide
Disturbing Fears s an episodic psychological horror game based on true events that immerses players in haunting narratives.
This yearArcade Breakout
Web browserWorldwide
Arcade Breakout is a physics game where a ball bounces around to hit the bricks.
This yearSuper Friends Party
PCWorldwide
Play minigames with up to 6 players in this online minigame multiplayer game! Connect up with your friends or strangers as you battle it out to find a champion! All minigames are free to play, so get a friend or 5, what are you waiting for?
This yearUsurper Reborn
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
Wake with no memory. Descend 100 dungeon floors. Build relationships, start a family, lose companions forever. A text-based RPG remake of the 1993 BBS classic—with a living world and multiple endings shaped by your choices.
This yearRouge's Flush
PCMacWorldwide
Rogue's Flush is a single-player poker roguelike deckbuilder where every hand is a heist. Recruit 70 Crew, cheat with 30 Tricks, buy Rackets, beat escalating Marks, and carry risky Long Con cases past the Pit Boss.
This yearThe Missing Rune
PCWorldwide
A psychological horror sim where you play a low-level researcher, who has to banish demonic entities back to where they came from. While having to keep the entitles in your peripheral vision, you must use the Rune Operation Manual to input the right runes, and send them back.
This yearRogue Point
PCWorldwide
From the creators of Black Mesa: Welcome to Rogue Point! A 4-player co-op shooter where teamwork is everything. Join forces on intense missions with evolving objectives and powerful upgrades. Plan, Adapt, and Overcome. Your squad’s survival depends on it.
This yearPih 2
PCWorldwide
The infamous Pih sequel is here! There's some new angry hawgs coming for you. Ever heard of aPihgator? 🦈Shark-Hawg?🦝 Hogoon?
This yearThat Time I Got Reincarnated as a Tyrant God
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
Slay waves of monsters with your mouse, collect coins, buy permanent upgrades, and grow stronger round after round in a compact incremental action game.
This yearSpeedy Gun Savage
SteamVRWorldwide
Speedy Gun Savage is a first person shooter VR game where Wolf, the hero of the game is an intergalactical bounty hunter and travels to different planets to collect bounties. The game has three different planets with several enemies and three main boss.
This yearZero Racers
Virtual BoyWorldwide
Enter the future of racing 10 years before the turn of the 30th century. Zero Racers was shown at E3 1996, but went unreleased until 2026 as part of the Nintendo Classics collection. Forced to live underground, humanity has lost its former glory and access to certain emotions.
This yearDragon Hopper
Virtual BoyWorldwide
Reclaim Prince Dorin's Kingdom! Developed by Intelligent Systems, Dragon Hopper was largely complete and due for release in 1996, but went unreleased until 2026 as part of the Nintendo Classics collection.
This yearPoko Poko Field
PCWorldwide
'Poko Poko Field' is a roguelite action game where the fluffy Pomeranian "Watapoko" conquers islands scattered across the world through knockback battles. Combine skills, build your strategy, and set out on an adventure to become the strongest across the islands.
This yearLastStanding
PCWorldwide
For long, you have been nothing but a toy to them, something to be used and tossed away, but you have proven yourself resilient, you have won their game not just once, but twice, and now?
This yearBuzzin
Web browserAmazon Fire TVLeapTVWorldwide
Buzzin is a party trivia game played on a television or in a web browser, where every player uses their own phone as a buzzer.
This yearMeat Girl
PCWorldwide
Your roommate went missing several months ago. You finally gain a conscience and go look for her. You find a strange girl in the woods.
This yearShadow Princess
PCWorldwide
Shadow Princess is a bullet hell precision game where your goal is to reach the end of each stage and collect crowns.
This yearRune Log
PCWorldwide
Decode a runic cipher, then decide what it truly means. A quiet, occult detective word game: solve each scripture letter by letter, then type your own conclusion to answer a villager's question about a death, a fraud, a haunting, or an old secret.
This yearChoice of Life: Floors
AndroidWorldwide
Choice of Life: Floors is a psychological horror detective game where every choice shapes your story. An elevator descends through the endless floors of your own home, leading you into a game against your own mind. Each step brings you closer to escape… or to madness
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.