ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
August 25
The games released on this day in gaming history.
852 releases
1 Year AgoPuzzle to the End
PCWorldwide
It's a puzzle game where you can piece together images using specially shaped pieces. Featuring an 8x8 standard grid, magnetic grids, flipable grids, and shape-shifting blocks, it offers over 30 levels of escalating challenges—each piece holds the key to victory.
This yearChronicles Puzzle: History Path
PCWorldwide
Piece together the shards of time in this historical sliding puzzle game. Experience a journey from the Big Bang to the future through 80 unique levels and 320 challenges.
This yearLeon&Suharto
PCWorldwide
An interactive dramatic thriller novel with immersive elements. Immerse yourself in a dark tale of revenge, where you must find those responsible for the horrors of the Kapella Estate, survive despite your own fears, and face the irreversible consequences of your choices.
This yearUltrapool
iOSWorldwide
The pool bar is always open! Ultrapool is a colorful roguelike about playing pool with a bunch of wacky balls with crazy effects. Carefully craft a perfect build and get the craziest trickshots!
This yearKoikata: How Our Love Grows
RemasterPCLinuxMacWorldwide
An all-ages remaster of Koi Suru Kimochi no Kasanekata, with upgraded resolution, new features and Ichika route, which was not present in the original game.
This yearBox Knight
PCWorldwide
A funny, silly and irreverent action RPG roguelike. A mix of ‘the Office’ and ‘Lord of the Rings’ with a comic like aesthetic.
This yearApidya' Special
RemakePS5SwitchPCXbox Series X|SWorldwide
Apidya is making a comeback in this authentic 24-bit pixel remake, built from the ground up, but utterly faithful to the original.
This yearAstral Court DX
Expanded editionPCWorldwide
Astral Court DX is an arcade precision platformer! Taking place in Heaven, you play as "The Prisoner" - an infamous criminal who's been to prison one too many times and is sent to death-row!
This yearSokogram
PCWorldwide
Sokogram merges Nonogram logic grids with Sokoban box-pushing puzzles. Each level blends both systems into one unified challenge with handcrafted designs that reward deduction over guessing.
This yearHow Asian Parents went to School
PCWorldwide
An online 1-4 player co-op adventure where you experience the legendary struggle of getting to school as an Asian parent. Fight a psychopathic bear, defy physics, and survive the emotional damage from Tablo Escobar : an NPC who roasts you every time you fail.
This yearHero Mania
PCLinuxWorldwide
Hero Mania is a bombastic, comic-book themed multiplayer party game where players don the spandex of unfamed, super-powered heroes as they brawl their way to the top using their abilities, wits, and even each other!
This yearSVETIK
PCWorldwide
SVETIK is a top-down dark fantasy adventure RPG where the player explores a world plunged into darkness after the sun has been sealed away.
This yearBoHeM
MacPCWorldwide
Live an anti-cozy life on the sidewalks of Rainy Street. Fix apartments, tend bars, thrift for clothes, and uncover the wacky mysteries surrounding the eccentric yet seemingly normal tenants as they go about their daily lives.
This yearPortrait Painter
LinuxPCWorldwide
Paint portraits to help a struggling art museum in this relaxing painting game.
This yearPolylithic
PCWorldwide
The Polylithic is a 3rd person crafting survival set in the Paleolithic/Neolithic era where the player crafts items, unlocks technology, discovers the world, builds bases, and can either grow the tribe and command the settlement or play the game solo.
This yearTsugunohi: The Thread That Beckons to Heaven
PCWorldwide
Just keep walking left. The latest Tsugunohi returns to the series’ roots with its early visual style and atmosphere. On a sweltering summer day, a girl walks home past “righteous” people, a thread of salvation, and her mother beneath a white umbrella.
This yearHide and Moo!
PCWorldwide
Somewhere in this field, someone is doing their best animal impression. It’s you. Record your own animal sound, then try to match it under pressure while hunters close in. A chaotic voice-mimicry hide-and-seek party game with proximity chat.
This yearGold Coast Gambits: Boca Raton & Palm Beach
PCWorldwide
A turn-based digital board game set in Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Florida. Compete for Prestige through property, Luxury Cards, and strategic map play.
This yearA Couple Nights at the Chud House
PCWorldwide
You fell asleep first at the sleepover, and now your friends aren't acting quite the same. Defend yourself from the Chuds in this point-and-click style horror game, uncover forgotten memories, and discover what's really happening.
This yearOpen Up, Michael!
PCWorldwide
Balance strange offerings on a door handle, remember its unsettling note sequences, and find out who Michael really is. A short first-person comedy-horror game about five rituals, readable puzzles, two endings, and one suspiciously well-balanced cheese wedge.
This yearA Border With No End
PCWorldwide
A Border with No End is a horrorpunk adventure RPG set right in the middle of your normal everyday insanity, psychotic depression and a surreal nightmare, that is both meaningless and interpretive. Fight for nothing and loose it all.
This yearLing House: Echoes Within
PCWorldwide
Ling House: Echoes Within is a first-person psychological horror experience. Uncover the hidden tragedy beneath the surface of a haunted house. As reality breaks down, your video camera reveals images of an alternate space.
This yearOverInfected
PCWorldwide
OverInfected is a tactical roguelike auto battler featuring parasite management mechanics, where your life is on a timer. The stronger you are, the faster your ‘weapon’ kills you. Death isn’t an option – it’s a core gameplay element.
This yearGuardians of Dreamstate
PCWorldwide
Guardians of Dreamstate TCG is a fantasy trading card game where both players share every turn. Draw, Set, LVL UP and battle across five lanes every turn. Your goal of the game is simple, damage your opponents 7 card life deck while they have none remaining and you win the game!
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.