ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 23
The games released on this day in gaming history.
660 releases
9 Years AgoBleed
PS4Europe
Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams and she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!
8 Years AgoWarhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr
PS4Xbox OneEuropeAustraliaNorth America
Enter the Chaos-infested Caligari Sector and purge the unclean with the most powerful agents of the Imperium of Man.
13 Years AgoElectronic Super Joy
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.
8 Years AgoKero Blaster
SwitchWorldwide
Kero Blaster is a platform video game created by Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya. It was released in 2014 for PC and iOS and is the first major project of Pixel since Cave Story in 2004. The game lays a heavy emphasis on shooting and got positive reviews on both platforms.
43 Years AgoUltima III: Exodus
Apple IINorth America
Eons ago Lord British came unto the lands of Sosaria. Since that time it has been united under his rule as the Kingdom of Britannia and has gone through two major crises. A few years ago there were political upheavals among the city states of the kingdom.
10 Years AgoDuelyst
PCMacWorldwide
Duelyst is a competitive strategy game focused on tactical combat, squad building, and ranked ladder play. Each battle is a 1v1 match between two online opponents.
8 Years Ago7 Billion Humans
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
"Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people. ...a thrilling followup to the award winning Human Resource Machine. Now with more humans!"
24 Years AgoWave Race: Blue Storm
GameCubeBrazil
Racing atop a bed of dynamically changing waves, gamers must navigate their way through eight different environments under random weather conditions, including the powerful and visually impressive Storm setting.
9 Years AgoMasquerada: Songs and Shadows
Xbox OneWorldwide
Masquerada: Songs and Shadows is a tactical action RPG developed by Witching Hour Studios.
2 Years AgoConcord
PCPS5Worldwide
In Concord, you play as the crew of the Northstar—a group of guns-for-hire known in our galaxy as Freegunners. The Freegunners roam the stars taking high-stakes jobs on worlds across Wild space, where they face other fiercely competitive Freegunner crews.
14 Years AgoNES Open Tournament Golf
Nintendo 3DSAustraliaEurope
NES Open Tournament Golf is an NES game featuring Mario characters. As the name of the game implies, it is a golf game and was one of the first golfing games in the Mario series. You can play a round of golf on one of three different courses.
15 Years AgoArt of Fighting 3: The Path of The Warrior
WiiJapan
In this third and final entry in the Art of Fighting series, the story shifts from Ryo Sakazaki to his best friend and rival, Robert Garcia, as he ventures into Mexico to try and locate Freia Lawrence, a childhood friend, who asked for his help.
10 Years AgoAlone With You
PS VitaPS4Worldwide
Alone With You is a sci-fi game for people who love adventure, exploring and maybe even a little romance. You play the sole remaining member of a doomed terraforming colony.
15 Years AgoStreet Fighter III: 3rd Strike Online Edition
PortPS3North AmericaJapan
The PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade port of Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike. Developed by Iron Galaxy Studios, this version features enhanced visuals, an improved training mode, character-specific combo trials, rollback netcode, and more!
10 Years AgoAdVenture Communist
PCMacWorldwide
The world's greatest communism simulator! Welcome friend, to AdVenture Communist! The world’s fairest communism simulator!
7 Years AgoGravitas
PCNorth America
Gravitas is a short first-person puzzle platforming game that transports you to the Gallery of Refined Gravity. Manipulate gravity and the gallery itself to prove yourself a pupil worthy of the Curator’s masterwork.
5 Years AgoKing's Bounty II
SwitchEurope
The King's Bounty turn-based tactics series returns with King’s Bounty 2!
26 Years AgoFrogger 2: Swampy's Revenge
PCNorth America
Because of his envy of Frogger's achievements and the attention he receives, Swampy the Crocodile hatches a devious scheme to invade his pond and kidnap Lillie Frog's brothers and sisters. What a vile crocodile!
10 Years AgoAbsolute Drift: Zen Edition
Expanded editionPS4North America
A unique racing game about mastering the art of drifting. Journey from apprentice to master drifter as you hone your skill in a gorgeous minimalist world. Travel from airports and docks to a floating metropolis in search of new cars and ever greater challenges.
9 Years AgoDistrust
MacPCWorldwide
DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.
24 Years AgoAggressive Inline
XboxWorldwide
Combine the many tricks and styles of the extreme sport, inline skating, with a Tony Hawk style system, complete with objectives and huge arenas, and you have Aggressive Inline.
10 Years AgoProminence Poker
PS4Worldwide
Welcome to Prominence Poker, a game that pits players from around the world against each other--and devious AI--to build the rep, prestige, and bankroll needed to be, and beat, the best of the best.
9 Years AgoBeast Battle Simulator
PCWorldwide
Beast Battle Simulator is a physics based battle-simulation sandbox game featuring dinosaurs and animals. Kamikaze Zebras VS. T-Rex with laser guns, Lions with machine guns VS. a flock of 50 seagulls; anything is possible!
15 Years AgoSuper Adventure Island II
WiiJapan
Master Higgins finally marries his lovely girlfriend Tina. But out of nowhere, a powerful tropical cyclone destroyed the idyllic mood of their honeymoon. And not only this: it separated the ardent lovers again.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.