On This Day in Gaming: August 26

ON THIS DAY IN GAMING

August 26

The games released on this day in gaming history.

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Fright Light

PCWorldwide

Experience an intense, strategy dependent game disguised as a cheesy parody of all those jump scare "games" we love to laugh at. Master the art of tracking up to four intruders at once along with timing your flashlight reloads for maximum protection from your enemies.

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New Yankee in King Arthur's Court 2

PCWorldwide

Return to the days of magic, maidens, goblins and gold to help an unwitting knight and his feisty wife find the Fountain of Living Water! Only those players who figure out the quickest way through each level will win the gold!

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Professional Construction: The Simulation

PCWorldwide

Immerse yourself in the sprawling and fascinating world of road construction! Experience life on the construction site like the pros, and use heavy equipment and massive machinery.

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Crystal Control II

PCMacWorldwide

Crystal Control II is a competitive bullet hell game for two players. Capturing crystals gives you more firepower, which means more bullets for your opponent to dodge. First player to get hit loses!

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Beeftacular

PCWorldwide

Beeftacular is a fast-paced platformer where you have to clean levels from rotten meat chunks as fast as possible. Jump your way through the level and use your attacks to hack all of them into pieces. Compare your speedruns with your friends and the world.

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Highway to the Moon

PCWorldwide

Highway to the Moon is a fast-paced scrolling arcade shooter where you take control of Jacob Helaway, stunt man and thrill-seeker extraordinaire, as he makes his way to the Moon in pursuit of the interstellar criminal known only as the Moon Man.

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Thorne - Son of Slaves (Ep.2)

PCWorldwide

Play as the infamous mercenary known as "The Crow" in a decayed and corrupt world, find your way out of chains and get paid for your contract, in this enthralling Action-RPG with high production values.

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Evil Robot Traffic Jam HD

PCWorldwide

Evil Robot Traffic Jam is a tower defense game built from the ground up for virtual reality. Play as an agent of the Evil Robot Defense Force: place powerful defense towers, activate destructive special abilities, and disrupt the robots with hacker drones!

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Eyestorm

PCWorldwide

Eyestorm is a helicopter simulator game which takes place on a vast archipelago through forty exhilarating missions.

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Parvaneh: Legacy of the Light's Guardians

PCWorldwide

Fadia, a young and courageous boy sets about protecting ‘Naria’, his home village, from the Khazdaks who are trying to pollute their river.

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Detective Masochist -The Case of the Femdom Torture-

PCWorldwide

The story so far: Our pathetic, lazy hero and his childhood friend Satomi, as beautiful as she is brilliant. He lives his days in a hardboiled fantasy, playing at being a detective while barely managing to make ends meet.

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Arcade Archives: Darius

PortPS4JapanAsia

Arcade Archives: Darius is a port of the action shooting game Darius. The goal for the player is to ride in the Silver Hawk fighter and escape from the Darius planet which is facing destruction from the alien attack.

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Liar Liar 2

PCWorldwide

Continuing one year after the first game left off, Yukari and Miho are now high schoolers, who are now dating and spend their leisure time together holding hands, kissing, and murdering the occasional boy or two.

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Baldr Heart

PCJapan

Baldr Heart is a visual novel with 2D action gameplay set in a cyberpunk future.

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Wizardish

Web browserWorldwide

A first-person grid-based oldschool mini dungeon crawler inspired by Wizardry/Ultima, created in PICO-8.

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Starr Mazer: DSP

PCMacLinuxWorldwide

DSP is side-scrolling, roguelike, shoot 'em up set in the Starr Mazer universe.

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The Ember Saga: A New Fire

PCWorldwide

This is a deep, story-driven experience where The Order, a powerful organization that has existed for over 3000 years, never interferes with the politics of the nations of Mörja. But everything is not as it seems, as The Order has a dark secret.

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Curiosity

PCWorldwide

A simple world where the player is able to change things that are not supposed to be changed. Welcome to Curiosity, the game where you can hack. Try out different hacks, get creative, entertain yourself!

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Warriors of Vilvatikta

PCWorldwide

Warriors of Vilvatikta is an epic RPG inspired by real Indonesian history.

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Blackish House

PCJapan

Those with individuality, good looks which help to bring this out, as well as talent — however, despite having all these things, none of them think about the other people around them, and are all ‘blackish’ personalities.

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Withering Kingdom: Flurry of Arrows

PCWorldwide

A fantasy shooter and sequel to Withering Kingdom: Arcane War.

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100 Days

iOSWorldwide

100 DAYS - Zombie Survival is an arcade-style idle clicker game where you must help the protagonist, Peter, survive a relentless zombie apocalypse. The gameplay revolves around tapping to shoot and managing resources to upgrade your base and teammates.

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Xtrike

PCMacLinuxWorldwide

Xtrike is a shoot'em up game integrated with action real-time strategies. Players need to produce battle units and also control heroes to destroy incoming enemies.

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Texas Tango

PCWorldwide

Texas Tango is an experimental hardcore physics game which is bullets can be collide in the air. With a lots of blood and a lots of fun, explode the opponents and see them flying in the air.

Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.

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