ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 18
The games released on this day in gaming history.
657 releases
This yearLugal: Bronze Age Survival Game
PCWorldwide
A survival craft game with RTS elements. Build a base, become the leader of a tribe → village → city → state. Conquer neighboring settlements and become king.
This yearDig to China Simulator
PCWorldwide
Dig to China Simulator, is a game about digging a hole in your back yard, until you get to China. Find ores in the holes you dig, sell them, upgrade your equipment to dig faster.
This yearDDD: Demons Double Down
MacPCWorldwide
Sometimes loneliness pushes us into strange, risky choices. A nightclub that wasn’t here yesterday. Mysterious strangers—each leaving more questions than answers. Just one short night that simply won’t end. What could possibly go wrong?
This yearProject Sekai: Ayakashi Yokochou no Natsuyasumi
Web browserJapan
Before you knew it, you found yourself in an unfamiliar place. It was a mysterious SEKAI inhabited by the ayakashis. It seems you’ll need to make the summer festival a success to return to your original world!?
This yearAyakashi Yokocho no Natsuyasumi
Web browserJapan
A browser visual novel with the main cast of Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage based on japanese folklore.
This yearWheelchair for Two
PCWorldwide
Start a chaotic co-op adventure in one wheelchair. Two players control different sides of the chair and must work together to survive brutal obstacles, dangerous jumps, and physics-based challenges.
This yearFallin' Glocks
PCWorldwide
Fallin' Glocks is a 2D skydiving action shooter with procedural levels and power-ups. Drop into the pits of a post-apocalyptic Earth and fight against hijacked, classified government weapons controlled by the master weapon, Ares.
This yearDead Age 2
Switch 2Worldwide
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" (84% very positive) is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one.
This yearOctober: Survivor's Guilt
PCWorldwide
October: Survivor's Guilt is an first-person psychological horror game where you explore an unsettling house, interact with objects, and try to survive a terrifying night after a simple favor goes wrong.
This yearHook Party Arena
PCWorldwide
Hook, ricochet, rescue, and outplay your rivals in a fast top-down multiplayer arena. Pull enemies into hazards, save teammates, trigger two-hook Headshots, and shape each short match with upgrades and tactical items in customizable Steam lobbies.
This yearToll: The Ferryman's Ledger
PCLinuxWorldwide
You are Charon. You take the coins from the eyes of the dead — and one of them, someday, must be your own. A short incremental with a real ending: five rivers, a tribute owed to Hades, and a price on your own freedom. It ends. That is the whole point.
This yearRaze
PCWorldwide
Raze is an action roguelike based on randomization. Destroy thousands or tens of thousands of enemies in a single run, adapt to random events, and survive through to your cat reflexes. There are no easy paths here, and no room for mistakes.
This yearDoctrine: C.U.L.T.
PCWorldwide
Build your own religion from the ground up. Forge dogma. Recruit followers. Expand your influence. Every decision shifts your power - and every power has a price. Will you be a savior or a tyrant? The world awaits your move.
This yearVoidface
PCWorldwide
Face off in a challenging bullet-hell arena shooter to try and clear bite-sized boss rush challenges. Learn to dodge their attacks, cast spells to gain an upper hand, and kill everything that gets in your way.
This yearMorningstar
PCWorldwide
Undertale Morningstar is a fan-game of Toby Fox's UNDERTALE made by Geno. Made specifically for people who still hold a "perverted sentimentality" towards UNDERTALE.
This yearThe Sovereign's Board
PCWorldwide
The Sovereign's Board is an online 1v1, 3D, turn-based strategy game. Battle against your rival by utilizing a team of 3 unique characters all with their own strengths and weaknesses.
This yearPolluted Flesh
PCWorldwide
Very short on-rails collector game where you're stuck in the guts of a cosmic sea creature, polluted by waste.
This yearNudge
PCMacWorldwide
nudge is a cozy organization-sim about finding space for your work, mom, and huge assortment of gacha toys. Unbox over 50 collectibles from 8 unique sets, decorate your first apartment, and try to find room for everything in your life, including mom.
This yearCirculo
LinuxWorldwide
Circulo is a fast-paced 2D arena survival game centered around geometric chaos. Players control a small circle while facing waves of hostile shapes in an increasingly dangerous battlefield.
This yearFinding Ruby
PCWorldwide
A cozy hidden object adventure inspired by classic puzzle books. Join Ruby and her loyal friends on a journey across the world to uncover the mystery of her missing archaeologist parents through beautifully hand-crafted and highly detailed scenes.
This yearUntergrund Raceways: Arena
AndroidiOSWorldwide
Untergrund Raceways Arena (short: URA) is a kart arena fighter from Vantech Studios, developed in cooperation with the AAP. URA covers a scope that seems somewhat atypical for a first PC game.
This yearThis Is Golf
PCLinuxWorldwide
This Is Golf is a casual but challenging first-person golf game with randomly generated holes. Shot shaping and distance are based entirely on mouse motion. Play solo or in lobbies of up to 8 players, and enjoy a fun, competitive, and slightly goofy golfing experience.
This yearRed Tanks vs Lizard
PCWorldwide
Defend the base. Burn the lizards. Take three stars.
This yearChess Folk
AndroidWorldwide
ChessFolk is a chess game featuring offline play against hundreds of fictional AI opponents with distinct profiles, playing styles and difficulty levels. Its opponent system combines Maia-2, Stockfish and custom behaviour rules.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.