ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
October 27
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1023 releases
This yearRPG Chess
PCWorldwide
A turn-based RPG, except it's also chess! Every capture becomes a 1v1 battle decided by stats, elements and abilities. Build your team, climb the roguelite campaign, or duel friends and CPUs.
This yearSomething Something Spaceship
PCWorldwide
Explore a malfunctioning spaceship and retrieve the items needed to fix it, while avoiding a colourful cast of enemies. An isometric platform puzzler inspired by games from the 8-bit era.
This yearLittle Boo and the Spectral Orbs
PCWorldwide
A challenging single-screen platformer inspired by 80s arcade classics. Help Little Boo rescue his lost friends across 40 deadly levels. Dodge traps, outrun enemies, and race against time. Easy to learn. Brutal to master.
This yearEmpty Box
PCWorldwide
Psychological horror dating sim for women. Navigate a seemingly perfect school life where every sweet moment hides a lie. Why is the rooftop locked?
This yearWhen the Embers Wake
PCWorldwide
When the Embers Wake is a third person narrative adventure with a cause to create awareness about the very current and real threats on wildlife. You play as a red panda that needs to survive amidst environmental challenges, threats and also grief.
This yearPrismarch
PCWorldwide
A colorful chess roguelike! Engage in dopaminergic, cinematic strategy while you fulfill a chess power fantasy - your pieces gain abilities as you construct a juiced up roster capable of surviving the onslaught!
This yearSlop Simulator
PCWorldwide
Make slop out of trash, junk and pretty much anything and serve it to customers! A chaotic multiplayer first-person fast food simulator with barely any safeguards where you use only "local and fresh" ingredients.
This yearSenior Survival Club
PCWorldwide
In a zombie apocalypse, a grandmother takes a chainsaw to find her grandson. Defeat slow, persistent zombies, collect gear, and strengthen with exercise. Advance through ever-stronger hordes, reclaiming youthful power in this survival action game.
This yearTiny Capsule Collector
PCWorldwide
Run a cozy capsule shop at the bottom of your screen. Attract cute animal customers, collect charming capsule toys, and build a relaxing, ambient world in this idle sim bringing you small moments of joy while you work. Make your desktop a place you’d rather be.
This year8 Hours Till Dawn
PCLinuxWorldwide
Play 8 Hours Till Dawn solo, or with up to five other friends, a survival party game where you plan out your actions and movements ahead of time.
This yearAnomalous Veil
PCWorldwide
Anomalous Veil is a psychological horror experience that can be completed in 30–90 minutes and features branching endings.
This yearVampy's Big Day
PCLinuxMacWorldwide
Sneak through the shadows as a clumsy vampire learning to avoid deadly sunlight… with a little help from a sun fairy. Will you find redemption, or embrace the darkness?
This yearDuel: The Game Show
PCWorldwide
Duel: The Game Show is a 2-player party game show with 30+ mini-games spanning trivia, memory, reflexes, and guessing challenges. Matches use a scoring pyramid across several rounds, with online multiplayer via Steam.
This yearWordventures: The Vampire Pirate
MacPCWorldwide
On the night of the full moon, a handful of children have seemingly disappeared in the sleepy seaside town of Mistyvale Oaks. Solve word search puzzles to track down leads, uncover clues, and solve the mystery of the ghost ship in this narrative puzzle adventure game.
This yearVeyrasol
PCMacWorldwide
Veyrasol is a real-time MMO strategy game set in the Veyra Spiral galaxy. Build colonies, command fleets, forge alliances, and battle for dominance across ~120-day seasons in this free-to-play browser-born strategy experience.
This yearCarcelera
PCLinuxWorldwide
Carcelera is an exploration and light puzzle game. You are in prison, and so is the Moon. Forge your own destiny, you can repent later.
This yearSelkie's Salvage&Co.
PCWorldwide
Selkie’s Salvage&Co. is a first-person physics based incremental fishing game. Your task is to clean up the flooded planet! Fish up scrap, grind all of it down and collect trinkets of the past. Expand your salvaging operation and go beyond!
This yearJunkpot
PCWorldwide
A roguelike about bidding blind on sealed storage crates. Read the odds, buy the crate, then stack charms that multiply what falls out. Type combos, rarity bonuses and odds boosts compound into one engine. Build it fast — the quota doubles every round.
This year1930: Ink & Bullets
PCWorldwide
A turn-based tactical strategy game featuring a 1930s cartoon art style. Face your opponent in a tense tabletop duel, use your perks wisely, manage your resources, and try to survive each round in this suspenseful noir universe.
This yearSpooky Land Defenders
PCWorldwide
A spooktacular strategic monster defense roguelite. Protect your haunted house from interdimensional corporate real estate investors by collecting horrific monsters, dreadful decor, terrible traps, and bizarre curios.
This yearScreen Stocks
PCWorldwide
Screen Stocks is an online multiplayer trading game featuring a real-time simulated market. Buy, short, and sell stocks to gain unprecedented levels of wealth. Team up with other traders or outsmart them all. It's time to make some money!
This yearCyber Delivery
PCWorldwide
Take high-risk delivery contracts across Neon Spires. Swing, grind, wall ride, defy gravity to find the fastest, flashiest route, then upgrade your gear, build your reputation, become the city’s legendary courier.
This yearPiecework: The Jigsaw Museum
PCMacWorldwide
Piecework: The Jigsaw Museum is a first-person jigsaw and tidying game set in a museum where thirty paintings have come apart. Find the pieces scattered around the building and put every painting back on the wall, at your own pace.
This yearIncrementalOS
PCWorldwide
An incremental love letter to the 90s desktop. Start with a blank desktop and one icon, unlock programs, systems and minigames, make more money, and build your way up to a system worth bragging about.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.