ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 12
The games released on this day in gaming history.
697 releases
5 Years AgoThe Plane Effect
SwitchNorth America
Players take on the role of Solo, a lonely office worker who's trying to get home to his family after his last day of work. Somewhat worryingly, it seems Solo experiences some trouble remembering his family, and also has to contend with the shifting balance of space and time.
5 Years AgoFaraday Protocol
PS4Xbox OnePCSwitchNorth AmericaEurope
Faraday Protocol is a first-person, story-driven puzzle game that will award you with a solid sense of accomplishment when overcoming its challenges. You are Raug Zeekon, interstellar archeologist from planet Cunor.
5 Years AgoTetragon
SwitchPCPS4Xbox OneWorldwide
Tetragon is a vast mysterious universe of unique puzzles, magical mazes, and challenges! Your goal is to move the plane realities using the spinning world gravity wisely. Test your mind and guide the brave lumberjack through the scattered worlds in search of his lost son!
5 Years AgoKiai Resonance
PS4Worldwide
Kiai Resonance is a 2D versus fighting game for Windows. You take part in multiplayer samurai combats where one hit off-guard is fatal, and several challenges to perfect your skills.
This yearAgefield High: Rock the School
PCWorldwide
Relive your High School days in the town of Agefield. It’s the early 2000s and you have three months left at school. So REBEL with your friends, win over your dream girl and ROCK the school!
13 Years AgoThis Starry Midnight We Make
PCJapan
This Starry Midnight We Make is a celestial growth simulation game where you create celestial objects using the mysterious Star-seeing Basin.
13 Years AgoTempest of the Heavens and Earth
PCJapan
An Ecstatic-class Stylish 2D Action Game controlling Tenshi Hinanawi, as she runs all around the realms of Gensoukyou! You are the path of righteousness itself! This is a derivative game inspired by the Touhou Project universe.
11 Years AgoThe Journey Back
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
The Journey Back is a first person exploration experience. You gain consciousness after being involved in a car crash. Explore a colorful, stylized 3d world, solve puzzles and find out what happened along the way.
11 Years AgoBattlevoid: Harbinger
iOSAndroidWorldwide
Battlevoid: Harbinger is a hard sci-fi space exploration game blending roguelike, turn-based, star map strategy, and real-time space battles.
10 Years AgoSiralim 2
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Siralim 2 is an old-school monster catching RPG. Summon and customize hundreds of creatures to fight for you as you battle your way through endless dungeons.
10 Years AgoIn Celebration of Violence
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
A fantasy action roguelike of exploration and murder. Live, kill, die, improve, live again.
10 Years AgoAbrix for kids
PCWorldwide
Abrix is back! The new task is to get a treasure stolen by nasty gnomes. Join it and take part in solving intriguing puzzles of this extremely engaging logical game.
7 Years AgoException
PCWorldwide
When an old woman's computer system is taken over by a fascist virus bent on total annihilation, you assume control of an ordinary software program transformed into an elite combat machine. Retake the system and build your character into a formidable instrument of retribution.
5 Years AgoForeclosed
SwitchXbox OnePS4PS5Google StadiaXbox Series X|SWorldwide
Foreclosed is a Cyberpunk action-shooter set in a comic book world. Follow the events of Evan Kapnos in this original comic book styled game and discover how losing your identity is all too possible.
5 Years AgoDoctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
SwitchXbox OnePS4North AmericaWorldwide
Building on the terrifying legacy of the Weeping Angels, first encountered in the iconic story “Blink”, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins is a found-phone horror game developed by the award-winning creators of Sara Is Missing and SIMULACRA.
5 Years AgoOne Deck Dungeon
SwitchNorth AmericaEurope
The hit roguelike adventure that captures all the fun of a dungeon crawl in a single deck of cards!
4 Years AgoSuper Bullet Break
PCPS4SwitchWorldwideEuropeNorth America
Super Bullet Break is a one-of-a-kind strategy deck builder filled with a wild bunch of cute and colourful characters - 'Bullets' - each and every one of them unique in their own way.
4 Years AgoSakura MMO
PS4PS5SwitchWorldwide
Join Kotone in this Visual Novel on her adventure as Viola in her online game Asaph Online. Find friends, accept their quests and get to know the world of Asaph.
4 Years AgoCity Eye
PCWorldwide
In the world of City Eye, you'll become an operator of the Central Monitoring System, which will try to prevent the effects of every single transgression in the game. Use the city map to track dangerous areas and don't let the suspects run away from the police.
42 Years AgoUniversal Chaos
PortAtari 2600Worldwide
This game is a port of the cancelled CBS Electronics' version of Targ with some minor changes. Besides the different enemy graphics and slightly different sound effects, the screen changes color with each level.
32 Years AgoPopeye Beach Volleyball
Game GearJapan
He's Popeye the Sailor, but he's not out at sea this time. Popeye and his friends have decided to take a break and enjoy the beach, but Brutus wants the attention of Olivia, and challenges Popeye to a game of Volleyball!
32 Years AgoPixeline: Syng, Leg og Lær
PCMacEurope
Pixeline: Syng, leg og lær is the first game in the Pixeline series. Play with Pixeline's toys and partake in a number of activities all based around Danish children's songs.
31 Years AgoVertical Force
Virtual BoyJapan
Pilot a Futuristic Star Fighter in a Battle for Mankind! GALACTIC YEAR 210. The earth and its colonies face annihilation in a futuristic war against the human race.
30 Years AgoTenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki
DOSChina
A Tenchi Muyo visual novel released for PC-98 and PC Engine CD/TurboGrafx-16 in Japan and for DOS in China.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.