ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 17
The games released on this day in gaming history.
619 releases
3 Years AgoHoloCure: Save the Fans!
PCWorldwide
Welcome to HOLOCURE! This is a free, unofficial fangame featuring the vtuber talents of Hololive and its surrounding community, with gameplay heavily inspired by Vampire Survivors and Magic Survival.
11 Years AgoNekopara Vol. 0
PCNorth America
This prequel to Vol. 1 provides a look at a day in the life of Shigure and the six catgirls in the family home. With little to no involvement of the previous protagonist Kashou Minaduki.
9 Years AgoSubsurface Circular
MacPCWorldwide
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
23 Years AgoTouhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom
PCJapan
Perfect Cherry Blossom features three playable characters to choose from, and each character has two different sets of skills. Reimu Hakurei is relatively balanced in all areas. Marisa Kirisame moves faster, and uses more powerful attacks with less range.
21 Years AgoSpeedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
MobileEurope
Speedball is a futuristic football-like game which takes place on a steel walled floored pitch, 160 feet long by 90 feet wide. There are two teams, and the team scoring the most goals wins. There is a goal at each end of the pitch and a ball warp tunnels in each side of the wall.
3 Years AgoKentucky Route Zero: TV Edition
PortPS5Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Kentucky Route Zero is a magical realist adventure game about a secret highway in the caves beneath Kentucky, and the mysterious folks who travel it.
3 Years AgoShadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
PCPS5Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Welcome to the Lost Caribbean! In this stealth strategy game, join a ghost ship with a living soul and assemble a cursed pirate crew.
19 Years AgoGalaga '88
WiiAustralia
The gameplay in Galaga '88 is built on the same premise as that of the original Galaga game, but is in many ways more complex and more difficult. The game is divided into a series of 29 Stages distributed through eight Worlds.
20 Years AgoSamurai Warriors 2
Xbox 360Japan
Samurai Warriors 2 is a hack and slash game and the sequel to the original Samurai Warriors.
8 Years AgoNot Tonight
PCWorldwide
"Not Tonight is a post-Brexit management game, fusing a time-pressure RPG with a politically charged story where every decision matters. Will you join the resistance and fight the regime -- or keep your head down and hope that one day this will all be a distant memory?"
6 Years AgoDDraceNetwork
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
What started as a simple mod is now a big cooperative racing experience! Choose from hundreds of available maps, race your way to the finish line and help your friends. Collaborate and compete with players all over the world.
19 Years AgoTouhou Fuujinroku: Mountain of Faith
PCJapan
Mountain of Faith features two playable characters, each with three weapon types, but no personalized spell card bombs.
3 Years AgoRed Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare
PortSwitchPS4Worldwide
A port for the Switch and PS4 lacking multiplayer modes present in the original release.
This yearTukoni: Forest Keepers
PCWorldwide
Tukoni: Forest Keepers is a cute and cozy puzzle adventure, based on a series of award-winning books by the Ukrainian artist Oksana Bula.
11 Years AgoDumb Ways to Die 2: The Games
PCWorldwide
Dumb Ways to Die 2: the Games was a game released in November 2014 by Metro Trains Melbourne, as a sequel to their 'Dumb Ways to Die' mobile game.
3 Years AgoA Castle Full of Cats
SwitchWorldwide
A Castle Full of Cats is a catvania hidden object game were you need to find all the cursed cats in the castle. Save each and every cat and unleash the power of love!
5 Years AgoGreak: Memories of Azur
SwitchPS5Xbox Series X|SPCWorldwide
Greak: Memories of Azur is a beautiful single-player puzzle platformer adventure. You will take the role of three siblings: Greak, Adara and Raydel to guide them through the lands of Azur.
8 Years AgoColoring Pixels
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes complexity and sizes.
4 Years AgoKirby's Dream Buffet
SwitchWorldwide
Hungry for some 4-player Kirby fun? Race through delicious obstacle courses, collect the most strawberries, and thwart your competition using familiar abilities.
15 Years AgoWarhammer 40,000: Kill Team
PS3Europe
Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a top down view, perspective correct, 3d arcade shooter, with twin stick control set in the Warhammer 40,000 future fantasy universe.
14 Years AgoThe Expendables 2: The Videogame
Xbox 360Worldwide
Four Expendables are hired to rescue an extremely valuable kidnapped Chinese billionaire. It's business as usual until all hell breaks loose and the explosive mix of testosterone and kerosene detonates.
10 Years AgoLufia: The Ruins of Lore
Wii UJapan
This exciting new chapter in the Lufia saga follows the adventures of Eldin, Torma, and Rami, a group of friends and would-be hunters as they set out in search of treasure, only to discover that fate has much more in store for them!
9 Years AgoCastle Story
PCMacWorldwide
Castle Story is a creative voxel-based strategy game in which you can build castles one brick at a time using an army of little creatures called Bricktrons.
9 Years AgoSuper Blood Hockey
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Relive the golden age of arcade sports gaming with Super Blood Hockey — A violent homage to classic 8-bit and 16-bit ice hockey games. Customize your line up and take to the ice, using fast-paced skills and bone-crunching brutality to dominate.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.