ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 4
The games released on this day in gaming history.
717 releases
12 Years AgoPyrite Heart
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
When a feud with her brother gets too hot, Princess Ahri Remono, a young woman with a heart of fire, accepts a challenge that she cannot thrive in the world outside the Imperial Palace.
11 Years AgoTinertia
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Tinertia is rocket-powered platforming built on the premise of Quake-like fun, Sonic-like speed, and dynamic, precise controls. Addictive, surprising, and challenging, Tinertia makes gamers laugh while kicking their butt.
11 Years AgoThe Castle Game
PS4WorldwideNorth America
The Castle Game is a strategy castle building game from Neptune Interactive.
11 Years AgoSaga
PCWorldwide
Build cities, command troops, and manage resources like in a traditional RTS, and also go on quests, chat with your friends, join guilds, and trade like an MMO. SAGA is an MMORTS with battling similar to the Total War series, mixed with city building from Stronghold.
11 Years AgoAeternoBlade
PS4North America
In the region of Awelsia, vengeful Freyja travels with an unknown weapon called 'AeternoBlade'. Freyja looks to take revenge on Beladim, the Lord of the Mist who destroyed her village, Ridgerode, and killed her tribe.
10 Years AgoDelicious: Emily's Message in a Bottle
PCWorldwide
Discover a message in a bottle that changes Emily’s life forever, while cooking divine dishes in Italian kitchens! Now Paige has fully recovered from her fever, life has settled down again in Snuggford.
9 Years AgoThe Legacy: Forgotten Gates
PCMacWorldwide
"The Legacy: Forgotten Gates" is a hidden-object adventure game packed with mini-games and puzzles, telling a story of a journey to another world, where danger and unexpected turns of events await around every corner!
9 Years AgoEnlightenment
PCWorldwide
In Enlightenment, you play in a roguelike action-shooter with a fast-paced challenging journey deep into a underground complex called "the Ark".
6 Years AgoMixolumia
PCMacWorldwide
Mixolumia introduces a fresh twist on block-clearing puzzlers. Scintillating visuals and entrancing music respond to your input and evolve as you progress. Diamond blocks slide together on the gem-shaped board, enabling you to set up chain reactions and earn high-scoring combos.
5 Years AgoDemons of Asteborg
PCMega Drive / GenesisWorldwideNorth America
Demons of Asteborg is a new original and challenging 2D-platform game mixing action, little puzzles and strategy coming soon for the SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis, Windows, Mac, Linux and Nintendo Switch. This 16-bit game will bring back many memories to the retro-lovers.
4 Years AgoAfter Wave: Downfall
SwitchNorth AmericaEurope
After Wave: Downfall is an arcade shooter where the player battles against monsters, completes various missions with a cool battleship. Deathrix invaded the world and released a mysterious meteorite causing a great flood.
4 Years AgoGale of Windoria
SwitchPCPS4PS5Xbox OneXbox Series X|SWorldwide
Soar on the breezes around the world in your flying Beakle, upgradable with parts to spread your accessible areas. Make use of the elementals not only in turn-based battles, but in dungeon gimmicks as well by combining character abilities.
1 Year AgoBee Simulator: The Hive
PCWorldwide
Live the epic adventure of a tiny bee in a vast world! Collect pollen, race through jet streams, and protect your hive from wasps. Now even bigger with The Hive expansion - gather resources, build and customize your very own beehive!
This yearHellSlave II: Judgment of the Archon
PCWorldwide
The Heavens are done waiting. In this dark fantasy dungeon crawler RPG, the Archon descends to end the demon war once and for all. Make your stand in HellSlave II, more immersive, brutal, and customizable than ever. The reckoning begins now.
50 Years AgoLe Mans
ArcadeWorldwide
Released in August 1976. Another in a long line of original Atari black and white driving games. Le Mans continues the winning racing and profit tradition of Team Atari, like its famous forebears: "Gran Trak 10", "Indy 800", "Indy 4".
45 Years AgoFire
Game & WatchNorth America
Fire is a silver type Game & Watch video game unit that was initially released on July 31, 1980. The game is one of the best selling in the Game & Watch series selling an astonishing (albeit estimated) 1,000,000 copies worldwide.
43 Years AgoFarmyard Fun
Atari 2600Worldwide
Farmyard Fun is an Action game, published by Suntek, which was released in Europe in 1983.
37 Years AgoFantasy Zone
Expanded editionX68000Japan
Fantasy Zone is an arcade style shooter for one or two players. The goal is to destroy all of the creatures on each planet and collect as many of the lost coins as possible.
31 Years AgoMagic Knight Rayearth 2: Making of Magic Knight
Game GearJapan
Magic Knight Rayearth 2: Making of Magic Knight is an RPG for the Sega Game Gear. It is based upon the Magic Knight Rayearth manga and anime series.
30 Years AgoDarby the Dragon
PCMacNorth America
Darby accidently shrinks his sister using a magic wand, and aims to bring her back to size.
30 Years AgoBS SimCity: Machi Tsukuri Taikai
Standalone expansionSatellaviewJapan
BS SimCity: Machi Tsukuri Taikai (「ＢＳ ＳｉｍＣｉｔｙ 街作り大会」) is a Downloadable 4-part Soundlink game for the Satellaview that ran between August 4, 1996 and January 31, 1998.
27 Years AgoBiing! 2: Sonne, Strand und Heisse Nächte
PCEurope
In Biing! 2, you take over the part of a hotel manager at a holiday resort called "Lollibay Inn". You'll have to care for employees and for the facilities of your club (e.g. pools, SM-centers, etc.).
26 Years AgoEmmyrea
PCJapan
Emmyrea is an Adventure game, developed and published by Kid, which was released in Japan in 2001 The gameplay is a first person perspective ADV in which the player will have to take decisions that will leave the story to different places.
26 Years AgoCanary: Kono Omoi wo Uta ni Nosete
PCJapan
A young man moves to Shikoku, the smallest of Japan's four main islands, to live in Kagawa prefecture with his uncle who runs a sound studio.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.