ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 5
The games released on this day in gaming history.
743 releases
This yearCleaning up the Puzzle Gallery
PCWorldwide
Cleaning Up The Puzzle Gallery is a cozy first-person organization simulator about cleaning up 2071 puzzle pieces scattered across a gallery of 87 famous paintings.
This yearUnicycle Together
PCWorldwide
Unicycles, a ticking bomb, and sausages struggling to stay balanced! In this 2-4 player physics-based chaos game, cooperate with your friends or blow them up! Reach the mountain peak before the fuse runs out. Don’t fall, don’t explode, and try to stay meaty!
This yearVessel
PCWorldwide
"The Vessel" follows siblings caught in a sinister conspiracy. A secret organization is hunting them, linked to the centuries-old "Sino-Western Occult Research Society." Trapped in a mysterious hospital full of dangers and hidden secrets.
This yearDream City Fugitive
PCWorldwide
Dream City Fugitive is an open world combat focused urban role playing game. You're a fugitive on the run. Join a vigilante group to investigate horrible experiments and dealing with gang warfare on a small island, Dream City.
This yearUncanny Tales: The Watcher
PCWorldwide
2006. You become the new reserve caretaker. Patrol the territory in your rugged 4x4, check the phototraps, and monitor the area using surveillance cameras. But remember: you are not the only one watching.
This yearReel Life
PCWorldwide
Reel Life is a slot machine-centric farming sim where luck, rather than scale, helps to determine your fiscal success. Farming, fishing, mining and more – collect goods to sell from slot machines scattered throughout the world.
This yearChangeable Guardian Estique
PCSwitchWorldwide
An original side-scrolling shoot 'em up game for Nintendo Entertainment System being developed by Cat Hoi Trading LLC set to release in the Summer of 2024. The game is set in 5 world cities and space, for a total of 6 stages.
This yearDark Witch Match!
PCWorldwide
The first-ever competitive puzzle game from the world of The Legend of Dark Witch! Match blocks, build chains, and overwhelm your rival in a Match-3 battler that's easy to learn but deep to master.
This yearPippa of Caerbannog
PCWorldwide
An infuriating platformer themed around Monty Python and the Holy Grail starring Pipkin Pippa in her search for the holy grail. Climb through 5 levels to reach the end, be careful not to fall and lose all your progress!
This yearCat Crisis
PCWorldwide
Cat Crisis is an online co-op game about being cute little cats rescuing even cuter kittens. Hide from terrifying dogs, pet frightened kittens, and rescue them to save all catkind! Play Cat Crisis with up to 4 players!
This yearMapGod
PCWorldwide
MapGod is a fast-paced online party platformer for 3–16 players. The winner of each round becomes the MapGod, controls the next arena and uses traps and powers against the other players.
This yearKindawn: The Parish Remembers
PCWorldwide
A first-person atmospheric horror exploration game. You play as an adult returning to the Siberian town where you grew up as an orphan. As you piece together fractured memories and uncover what happened in your absence, the line between folklore and nightmare begins to dissolve.
This yearSchoolboy SIM
SwitchWorldwide
In Schoolboy SIM, you play as a boy trapped inside his own home, turned into a prison by his strict and authoritarian parents. With no way to contact the outside world, your only option is to escape!
This yearDeep Sea Delivery & Co.
SwitchWorldwide
Explore a procedurally generated world and fulfill time-sensitive quests in this frantic underwater adventure!
This yearPatriotMemoirs
PCMacWorldwide
Shangchuan, 1939, Japanese-occupied. By day a bowing traitor, by night a ghost, in Demon's Lair, No. 86.
This yearDawn Sanatorium
PCWorldwide
A childhood you don't remember arrives on an old film reel. Step into the Dawn Sanatorium — a first-person psychological horror where a projector rewrites reality, a horned figure watches from the dark, and the truth about who you are waits at the very bottom.
This yearAmong Demons
PCWorldwide
Build a team of demons, survive endless dungeon runs, and explore a shared online world. Recruit defeated enemies, create powerful builds, extract before losing everything, and defeat challenging world bosses to earn lasting buffs.
This yearRogue Breaker
PCWorldwide
Break, blast, and crash through this arcade style Rgouelike. Assemble the perfect item set and leave no brick standing.
This yearMile 27
PCWorldwide
It is 12:00 AM at the isolated toll booth on Mile 27. Assigned by Northwood Corporation, your shift was supposed to be routine protocol.
This yearCubenen Gardens: Kingdom
PCWorldwide
Explore the Woodland District and help Ix search for his mysterious Tactician
This yearSweetie Candy Maze: Crimson Strawberry
PCWorldwide
Dive into a vibrant candy world! Collect delicious sweets and find your way through playful strawberry mazes in this sweet and colorful adventure.
This year101 Dogs Hidden in Orlando
PCWorldwide
Join this adventure and discover the hiding places of 101 dogs in Orlando in the hand-crafted landscape. Earn tons of achievements. How many can you find? Be quick!
This yearRoute-16: R
RemakePCWorldwide
The Route-16 remake. A brand-new entry in the classic high-octane car chase action series, Route-16, originally released in the 1980s. Take down the revived Kanharoo Gang with the evolved MAD X-R!
This yearRoute-16 Turbo
PortPCWorldwide
Take control of your car, MAD X, and evade relentless enemy cars as you infiltrate the secret base of the evil Kanharoo Gang to recover all the stolen money.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.