ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 5
The games released on this day in gaming history.
928 releases
12 Years AgoLimbo
Xbox OneWorldwide
Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.
11 Years AgoGrand Theft Auto III
PS4North America
Featuring a fully 3-D living city, a combination of narrative driven and non-linear gameplay and a completely open environment, Grand Theft Auto III represents a huge leap forward in interactive entertainment.
23 Years AgoStar Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
PCEurope
Choose Your Path! Set 4,000 years before the Galactic Empire, you are the last hope for the Jedi Order and the Republic - can you master the ways of the Force to become their savior? Or will you fall to the dark side and achieve ultimate power?
13 Years AgoBatman: Arkham Origins
PS3Wii UXbox 360Japan
Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City.
23 Years AgoPrince of Persia: The Sands of Time
PCEurope
Deceived by the treacherous Vizier, I was led to unleash the Sands of Time curse upon the Sultan's kingdom. With little but an ancient dagger and a devious princess to aid me, I must undo my fatal mistake.
11 Years AgoBastion
PS VitaNorth America
A hack-and-slash RPG featuring a reactive narrator, various unlockable weapons, weapon upgrades, practice mini-games and optional difficulty modifiers, set in an imaginary world in the aftermath of an uncertain apocalypse, in which the play…
7 Years AgoAlien: Isolation
SwitchWorldwide
Alien: Isolation is a survival horror game based on the Alien franchise. As Amanda Ripley, daughter of Ellen Ripley, you will navigate through an increasingly volatile world as you find yourself confronted on all sides by a panicked population and an unpredictable Alien.
23 Years AgoSilent Hill 3
PCAustralia
Silent Hill 3 is the third installment in the Silent Hill series. Like the previous entries, Silent Hill 3 is a survival horror combining action-based combat and puzzle-solving, but is somewhat more combat-oriented than the preceding installments.
23 Years AgoBeyond Good & Evil
PCEurope
Beyond Good & Evil is an action-adventure game with elements of puzzle-solving and stealth-based games. The player controls the protagonist, Jade, from a third-person perspective.
31 Years AgoWarcraft II: Tides of Darkness
DOSMacNorth AmericaAustralia
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is a Strategy video game published by Blizzard Entertainment released on 1995 for MS-DOS. Warcraft 2 is a successor of the popular Warcraft real-time strategy game.
18 Years AgoPrince of Persia
PS3Xbox 360Europe
Prince of Persia is an action-adventure and platforming video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is part of the Prince of Persia franchise. The game is set in ancient Persia, with a player-character whose name is not revealed in the game.
3 Years AgoSyberia
LinuxWorldwide
Join Kate Walker as she travels to remote locations and time periods in this timeless voyage to discover her true destiny.
9 Years AgoA Hat in Time
PS4Xbox OneWorldwide
A Hat in Time is a cute-as-heck 3D platformer featuring a little girl who stitches hats for wicked powers! Freely explore giant worlds and recover Time Pieces to travel to new heights!
13 Years AgoSteamWorld Dig
PCMacLinuxWorldwide
SteamWorld Dig is 2D a platform game that revolves around mining for resources and ores. The objective of the game is to investigate the mines underneath the old Western town Tumbleton in order to unearth the secrets lurking below.
7 Years AgoAssassin's Creed: Freedom Cry
Standalone expansionSwitchWorldwide
Born a slave, Adewale found freedom as a pirate aboard Edward Kenway’s ship, the Jackdaw. 15 years later, Adewale has become a trained Assassin who finds himself shipwrecked in Saint-Domingue without weapons or crew.
18 Years AgoLEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
MacWorldwide
Build, Battle and Brawl your way out of trouble! Play through all three classic Indiana Jones movies and relive your favorite Indy adventures in the tongue-in-cheek worlds of LEGO. Explore and Discover - Battle enemies, solve puzzles, and seek out the world's greatest treasures.
7 Years AgoMy Friend Pedro
Xbox OneWorldwide
My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.
10 Years AgoApollo Justice: Ace Attorney
AndroidWorldwide
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, released in Japan as Gyakuten Saiban 4, is the fourth video game in the Ace Attorney series.
12 Years AgoCaptain Toad: Treasure Tracker
Wii UNorth America
The intrepid Captain Toad sets off on his own adventure for the very first time through a wide variety of tricky, enemy-infested, maze-like stages to find hidden gems and nab elusive gold stars.
2 Years AgoDelta Force
PCWorldwide
Delta Force is a free-to-play tactical first-person shooter developed by Team Jade and published by TiMi Studio Group.
11 Years AgoNuclear Throne
PCPS4PS VitaMacLinuxWorldwide
Nuclear Throne is an action roguelike-like by Vlambeer about mutants fighting their way through a post-apocalyptic world.
8 Years AgoProfessor Layton and the Diabolical Box
MobileJapan
Professor Layton may be a world-famous sleuth, but even he will need your assistance to crack these challenging puzzles. With Nintendo DS stylus in hand, it's time to muster up some mental might!
24 Years AgoMetal Slug 4
PCKorea
One year after the events of Metal Slug 3, the world is trembling under the new threat of a mysterious but deadly cyber virus that threatens to attack and destroy any nation's military computer system.
7 Years AgoDarksiders Genesis
Google StadiaPCWorldwide
In this Action RPG spin-off, the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse Strife is called upon to save humankind from certain destruction at the hands of Lucifer.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.