ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
October 16
The games released on this day in gaming history.
832 releases
This yearVanisha
PCWorldwide
Vanisha is a sci-fi arcade shooter where you dodge bullet waves, craft builds from collected cards, and climb through six sectors of increasingly dangerous space. Level up, spend skill points, hit shops along the way, and see how far your build can take you.
This yearVHS World '89
PCWorldwide
A cozy first-person sorting sim set in a 1989 video rental store. All 3,360 VHS tapes have spilled across the floor — pick them up, read the covers, and shelve them by genre. No timers, no pressure: just the quiet satisfaction of putting every last cassette back in its place.
This yearSleep Walk
PCWorldwide
A son attempts to bridge the emotional divide between himself and his father in an attempt to get them both to stop dwelling on the past and create a new path forward together. Sleep Walk is a story about forgiveness and self worth.
This yearStream Train
PCWorldwide
Stream Train is a co-op adventure where up to 6 players livestream their trip through the Uncanny Valley. Grow your audience by taunting cryptid creatures, doing dangerous stunts, and pranking your friends. Can you make it through the valley alive?
This yearOnline: 404
PCWorldwide
An open-world survival simulator where even seasoned veterans of the genre will have to rethink their typical survival approach and how they interact with the world around them.
This yearSeason Island
PCWorldwide
Season Island is an interactive role-playing experience in which you guide Spike, a human stranded in a mystical seasonal globe…
This yearDevices Tycoon
PCWorldwide
Devices Tycoon is a unique business simulator that will make you feel like the owner of a company that creates your own devices! In the game you can create your own smartphones, tablets, laptops, smart watches, headphones, operating systems and even your own processors!
This yearThe Guardians
PCWorldwide
The Guardians is a decision based RPG with flight simulator and first person shooter mechanics. Every decision you make has consequences, your actions will shape the outcome.
This yearA Game About Opening a Chest
PCWorldwide
Open a Chest of infinite loot, collect legendary items, and create game-breaking synergies in this unique incremental roguelike. Grow your fortune, use NPCs to your advantage, and survive the perils of the dungeon in this addictive game of luck, risk, and rewards.
This yearBeyond These Stars
PCWorldwide
Journey on the back of the space whale Kewa, building a city for your people as you travel across the galaxy seeking purpose and answers, and developing deep relationships with the universe around you.
This yearA Dungeon Is You
PCWorldwide
Tower defense X Incremental idle! Design your own dungeon (maze). Summon and place different defenders against hundreds of personally designed waves.
This yearNight Blood W: Cutthroat Wolf
PCWorldwide
"Nightblood W: Cutthroat Wolf" is a cyberpunk action role-playing game. You will play the role of an ambitious gang cadre.
This yearDoomed Otaku
PCMacWorldwide
"Real friends exist in the online world!" The Doomed Otaku is a multi-ending adventure that follows a wandering 20-something otaku as they navigate both the real and cyber worlds, experiencing various events along the way.
This yearTerradune
LinuxMacPCWorldwide
Terradune is a hand-drawn 2D action RPG where you battle monsters, discover hidden treasures, and shape your hero’s fate. Explore scorching deserts, moonlit forests, and thrilling dungeons to uncover secrets in this fast-paced, immersive adventure.
This yearFlipping is Hard
PCWorldwide
A flippin' hard game where rotation is your only motion. Flip, fall, and climb through the land of lost things to return to your boy.
This yearSparky Rush: Purrils in Pawsville!
PCWorldwide
Sparky Rush is a lost media 3D Platformer PS1 game with elements of Psychological Horror where its developer descends into complete sorrow and madness. Play as Sparky and discover all the morbid secrets left by its creator before his sudden disappearance.
This yearPenguin Colony
PCWorldwide
Narrative adventure game based on H.P Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. Swim, Slide and Explore open ended levels as multiple penguin types with different abilities and challenges.
This year
This yearLights On My Screen
PCWorldwide
Lights On My Screen is a 2D adventure RPG set inside a video game. Help Kid navigate the colorful world, solve puzzles, talk to characters and fight (or don't fight) the enemies. And find the one who brought them to this world...
This yearSwarm Me
Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
A minimalist horde survival arena where you can’t shoot back. You’re hunted by an endless swarm of drones - kite the horde, bait them into deadly traps, upgrade your defenses, and survive as long as you can. Every minute the swarm grows denser, faster, and deadlier.
This yearDreadline Express
PCWorldwide
Investigative odyssey into the minds of fading passengers facing the end of the world aboard the last human train. An adventure game that doesn't set specific goals.
This year
This yearDiceminoes
PCWorldwide
Diceminoes is a score-chasing roguelike where you roll dice, pair them up to make dominoes, and connect them into scoring patterns. Discover powerful upgrades, bend the rules, and turn clever placements into huge scoring cascades.
This yearSupercar Collection Simulator
Xbox Series X|SWorldwide
Supercar Collection Simulator is a game where you sell surprise car boxes to earn money, build a car collection and engage in exciting races with rivals.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.