ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 17
The games released on this day in gaming history.
619 releases
6 Years AgoAeloren Tactics
PCWorldwide
A young bandit girl with amnesia must fight to find the truth of her past as she is caught in-between two factions in the midst of war.
6 Years Ago100 Vacas
PCWorldwide
100 vacas is a bite-sized game about a cowboy defending one hundred heads of cattle from bandits and making every bullet count.
6 Years AgoStay Home
PCWorldwide
A small rpgmaker game where you stay home with your dog Peanut, and prepare a surprise party.
6 Years AgoRun for Your Life
PCWorldwide
Top-down Cartoon-Horror Roguelite Action! Use your environment and quick thinking to create traps and barricades. Survive until the teleporter beam is charged, collect all the resources you can, and stay alive! .
6 Years AgoBlue Swirl
AndroidWorldwide
Blue Swirl is an underwater endless runner featuring procedurally generated environments. Players navigate an infinite abyss, dodging obstacles such as sharks, coral reefs, and rocks using one-touch controls.
6 Years AgoBoomby!
Web browserWorldwide
Boomby explodes (aka: jumps) every 2 seconds. Keep track of the timebar at the bottom of the screen, time your moves right. There are multiple routes to the pool, keep exploring if you get stuck or frustrated at a section of the map.
6 Years AgoBricks Frenzy
PCWorldwide
Bricks Frenzy is an arcade brick game developed to be both competitive and fun at the same time. Do your best with all the power ups available and gain mastery over them to defeat your opponents.
6 Years AgoPicture Perfect
PCWorldwide
WARNING 18+: You're a photographer who is close with three young women. There's 18 year-old Miracle who is so shy and introverted she won't leave the house without you. 20 year-old Sasha who dreams of starring on Broadway.
6 Years AgoRachael Savage
PCWorldwide
Play as a fearsome bounty hunter in this adventure game about hunting down an unbeatable threat! Turn invisible to sneak past enemies, slash with your sword, and use other unique items you find along the way to help acquire new bounties across the land.
6 Years AgoGangster Empire: Vendetta
PCWorldwide
Ever secretly wanted to run your own Mafia organization, playing the role of a ruthless mob leader? Now you can with Gangster Empire: Vendetta!
6 Years AgoCaptain Frogger
PCWorldwide
One day when a Gorilla was taking a walk, a family of Frogs jumped toward the Gorilla. The Frogs just wanted to hug their good friend Gorilla, but the surprised Gorilla tried to repel the Frogs. The Gorilla and the Frogs are best friends, though!
6 Years AgoTraphouse Druglord
PCWorldwide
A drug dealer simulator. Deal with paying rent. Buying supplies. Police, rival gangs trying to rob you, while buying and making drugs to sell them and fund this plan to get to paradise.
5 Years AgoThe Thief Girl
PCWorldwide
The Thief Girl is a stealth mission game in which you control a thief girl to collect treasure and get to the goal. Use the mouse to guide the girl to the goal while keeping her hidden from the monsters.
5 Years AgoDoki Doki Gravity Dive
PCLinuxWorldwide
Doki Doki Gravity Dive is a Score Attack Shoot 'em Up with tiny solar systems as your playground which are populated with tiny worlds and a singularity at their center. Enemies relentlessly invade and it is up to you to keep them at bay. At least for as long as you can!
5 Years AgoVoid Source
PS4North America
Classic multi-directional (360°) shoot 'em up. Navigate your UFO through hazardous environments with dangerous enemies and beat huge bosses!
5 Years AgoConquest of Elysium 5
PCWorldwide
Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.
5 Years AgoVR Lunar Base Skirmish: Control the Moon
PCNorth America
This is a shooting survival game. Players need to pick up weapons to defend the moon base from being destroyed by the enemy, and use excellent shooting techniques to wipe out the invading enemy forces and defend the moon base.
5 Years AgoDescent Vector: Space Runner
PCMacWorldwide
Descend at extreme speed through a deadly sci-fi gauntlet in Descent Vector, a high-intensity endless runner where precision, destruction, and mastery collide. Smash through space stations, survive relentless acceleration, and compete for global leaderboard dominance.
5 Years AgoCouplinked
PCLinuxWorldwide
Couplinked is an action-arcade game with a unique control system where you control two different nodes at the same time. The objective of the game is to collect rings and avoid obstacles.
5 Years AgoPurrfect Tale
iOSAndroidWorldwide
This story is told through interactive comics. You'll need to consider and make your choices to progress. What will you do when the cat you take in turns into a human?
5 Years AgoOctoQuest
PCMacWorldwide
Your Infamous Harp presents OctoQuest, a mash-up of your favorite retro NES games. Play as a highly evolved octopus on an eight-fold quest to retrieve extraterrestrial mushrooms from subterranean caves.
5 Years AgoTender Feelings Like Water
MacPCLinuxWorldwide
A yuri Eastern fantasy visual novel created for NaNoRenO 2020. A water spirit sees a girl in red out on rainy days. The spirit and girl meet and meet again, slowly beginning to fall in love.
5 Years AgoPlus Kingdom Jailbreak
Web browserWorldwide
You are Quince, an unkillable werewolf. You have decided to be imprisoned for your entertainment. You cannot be stopped. However, the kingdom that imprisoned you has done more than just bother you. Punish them for their transgressions and return to your cave.
5 Years AgoPorton Make a Sandwich: An Edible Adventure
Web browserWorldwide
I was gonna do some Radical Things today, but I'm really hungry...
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.