ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
October 8
The games released on this day in gaming history.
753 releases
This yearDuelist: Idle Expedition
PCWorldwide
Build your elite team in Duelist: Idle Expedition, the idle auto-battler that lives on your taskbar. Recruit from a pool of 90+ JRPG pixel-art roles and lead your traveling camp to victory against all the powerful Guilds on the Continent.
This yearAll You Can Fish!
PCWorldwide
All You Can Fish is an active, relaxing incremental fishing adventure where every voyage matters, every upgrade counts, and every fish brings you one step closer to maritime legend.
This yearClick & Mine
PCWorldwide
Click & Mine is a relaxing incremental mining game. Mine various resources and use them to buy upgrades, allowing you to descend deeper and deeper while unlocking new biomes, ores and skills.
This yearMaid Cafe Simulator
PCMacWorldwide
Run a maid café with five charming kemonomimi maids! Make drinks, serve customers, and tackle troublemakers in this first-person management sim. Get to know the girls behind the aprons as you turn a rundown café into a thriving business and aim for three Maidchelin stars.
This yearChicks in Trouble
PCWorldwide
A peaceful farm is thrown into chaos when a mother hen's chicks mysteriously vanish! Team up with the brave father rooster and embark on a quirky, obstacle-filled adventure to bring them home. Grab your mouse or gamepad—it's time to save the flock!
This yearAnomalous Cleaning Detail
PCWorldwide
A first-person cleaning simulator where you scrub, vacuum, and restore a troubled town plagued by supernatural disturbances. Complete contracts and use environmental clues to prepare for the exorcism, because when the mess is paranormal, a standard clean won't be enough.
This yearDino Time Raiders
PCLinuxWorldwide
Travel back in time to capture dinosaurs and turn them into profit! Lead a team of scientists through chaotic time-travel missions, catch prehistoric beasts, and build the ultimate dino park.
This yearDungeonOS
PCWorldwide
Crawl Dungeons, Loot and Equip your Adventurers! Log in to an old-school operating system. Manage your adventurers and use puzzles to damage your enemies. Are you ready to find the five artifacts you always dreamed of?
This yearRun Giraffe Run
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
Run Giraffe Run is a multiplayer fast-paced giraffe racing 2D platformer. Poop bombs. Spit banana peels. Slip on banana peels. Race against friends through chaotic and colorful levels. Have you tried farting?
This yearDragon Dinner
PCWorldwide
Cute but chaotic restaurant simulator where you play as a dragon waiter in a fast-paced dining rush. Set tables, serve hungry dragons, deliver the right dishes, and keep the place clean! After each day, customize the layout of the restaurant and learn new abilities to improve.
This yearBirdseed VR
SteamVRWorldwide
Snap pics of the chunkiest, cutest birds in VR! Relax in lush forests, complete quirky daily quests, and fill your Journal. Whether you’re birding alone or together with friends, get cozy and escape to nature.
This yearShip Shape Slam!!!
MacPCWorldwide
Out-dodge, out-dash, and outlast your friends in chaotic 1–4 player bullet hell arenas. Side effects may include shouting, betrayal, and broken couches. Enter arenas with up to 4 players where you can only move and dash.
This yearDrillbound
PCWorldwide
Drillbound is a short incremental game about mining your way to the planet’s core. Crush layers of rock, gather resources, upgrade your drill, and unlock powerful technologies as you descend into the depths.
This yearKeep Watering
MacPCWorldwide
Keep Watering is an incremental game with a cozy, hypnotic loop where every drop of water grows into something extraordinary.
This yearCyan Heart
PCWorldwide
A horror exploration puzzle adventure where you relive events through a selfie viewpoint. Alone, with only voice communication from comrades as support, she simply keeps the camera rolling. Witness the record she wished to leave behind.
This yearMore Slots More Money
PCMacWorldwide
A short incremental casino management game where you fill the floor with slot machines and table games, hire staff, expand to new rooms, and upgrade towards the ultimate automated casino.
This yearDreadway
PS5Worldwide
A co-op horror about surviving a nuclear apocalypse as a small group of people on a train, scavenging for various scrap to upgrade the train.
This yearDr. Mancell and Mr. Flame
PCWorldwide
Short homage game to go with the song collaboration between Waterflame and Josh Mancell, composer of the original Crash Bandicoot! Just in time for the 30th anniversary (unintentionally)!
This yearDemon General Kirsten
PortPCWorldwide
Kirsten is a soldier troubled by her current way of life. During her adventure, she'll encounter a wide variety of people, and those warm exchanges will shape her in one direction or another...
This year
This yearDrowse
PCWorldwide
DROWSE is a first-person psychological horror game set in the 1990s. A late-night favor brings you back to the office for a few photocopies. Explore, examine objects and solve puzzles as familiar places give way to memories you would rather leave behind.
This yearUltimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
Xbox Series X|SPS5Worldwide
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
This yearSoggy Froggy
PlaydateWorldwide
This froggy wants to get soggy. Stir the pot to temper that temperature. Be sure to hit those sweet spots, for froggy's sake!
This yearGloom Gate
PlaydateWorldwide
Gloom Gate is a reaction-based action RPG that combines old-school dungeon crawling with soulslike elements.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.