ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 12
The games released on this day in gaming history.
955 releases
3 Years AgoHammerwatch II
SwitchPS5Worldwide
Gather your heroes and journey beyond the dungeons of Castle Hammerwatch to explore a pixelated world like never before. Aid King Roland’s resistance while helping villagers along the way.
2 Years AgoThe Spirit of the Samurai
PCWorldwide
A village in peril. A samurai reanimated. An Oni advancing. Fight an army of undead warriors and Japanese monsters as a human, a Kodama, and a cat in this 2D stop-motion action adventure.
2 Years AgoClone Drone in the Hyperdome
Meta Quest 3Meta Quest 2SteamVRPCWorldwide
Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!
2 Years AgoCompletely Stretchy
PCWorldwide
Stretch, swing and stick your way through the Grombi Isles! Use your stretchy arm and sticky fingers to explore vibrant regions, meet eccentric characters, and embark on quirky adventures. Oh, and you’re blue?
2 Years AgoBreath of Death VII: The Beginning - Reanimated
RemasterPCWorldwide
The fast-paced supernatural RPG, Breath of Death VII, has been resurrected and remastered! Embark with our undead heroes on a bone-rattling post-apocalyptic adventure through an undead world, now more vibrant than ever, to exhume the mysteries of the past.
2 Years AgoFarewell North
PS5Worldwide
Restore color to the desolate islands of Farewell North, an open world journey where you play as a collie traveling with his owner.
41 Years AgoSweevo's World
Amstrad CPCZX SpectrumEurope
The Self-Willed Extreme Environment Volitional Organism, or Sweevo for short, is a goofy-looking and generally incompetent robot.
40 Years AgoTaiyou no Shinden: Asteka II
FM-7Japan
Taiyō no Shinden: Asteka II is an adventure game which takes place in the ruins of the ancient city Chichen Itza on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico.
37 Years Ago
36 Years AgoRay-Gun
X68000Japan
Ray Gun is a traditional Japanese RPG, with top-down navigation, random turn-based battles viewed from first-person perspective, etc. The combat is usually between the player's steroids and enemy ones. Steroids can attack normally or execute special techniques.
34 Years AgoWinter Camp
C64Worldwide
WINTER CAMP ICE COOL FUN! Maximus Mouse survived Summer Camp, but winter brings an avalanche of slippery, skating, snowballing antics at Camp Nice 'N' Icy! Eight frosty levels of mayhem test Rescue Ranger Max - can he save the winter wonderland...?
32 Years AgoNitemare 3D
PCWorldwide
Nitemare 3D (N3D) is a first-person shooter PC game with a horror theme, released by Gray Design Associates in 1994 for MS-DOS and Windows 3.1x platforms. It consisted of three episodes with ten levels in each episode, with the first episode being was released as shareware.
32 Years AgoVirtua Racing Deluxe
Expanded edition32XNorth America
Virtua Racing Deluxe is an enhanced port of Virtua Racing, released as a launch title for the Sega 32X in North America and Europe in late 1994.
30 Years AgoHyperblade
PCNorth America
HyperBlade introduces the 3D battlesport of the future. Players engage in a futuristic street-hockey style game played out on the interior of an elongated ellipsoid arena.
30 Years AgoTwilight
PCJapan
The protagonist belongs to the dark cult of magic-users. Not long ago sister Christa betrayed the cult and was eliminated. But there is a possibility that she got some disciples among students of monastery school somewhere in Transylvania, where she was a teacher.
29 Years AgoFlight Unlimited II
PCWorldwide
Flight Unlimited II is the second entry in the series, taking a more serious approach to flight games.
29 Years AgoBalls of Steel
PCNorth America
You’ll flip out over the coolest, fastest, most innovative quicksilver ball-basher in the known universe!
29 Years AgoRance III: Leazas Kanraku
PCJapan
The money Rance got in Custom City as payment for his latest detective work has been long gone. The brave private investigator with an eye on pretty women is now jobless again. At least his lovely purple-haired girlfriend and assistant Sill is still with him.
29 Years AgoVantage Master
PCJapan
A hexagonal turn-based tactical RPG by Nihon Falcom that supports both single-player and multiplayer. The PC version was translated to English and released as freeware in 2002.
29 Years AgoAHx-1
PCWorldwide
An authentic simulation of one of the world's most versatile and deadly attack helicopters, AHx-1 puts players behind the wheel of an AHx-1 Viper.
29 Years AgoZest to Fantasy
PCJapan
The story behind Zest is that you, Zefaa, woke up at a desert after you have been knocked unconscious. You realized that you have lost all of your memory except you first name.
26 Years AgoStar Trek: Starfleet Command Volume II - Empires at War
PCNorth America
Thought the war to end all wars was over? Wrong! The Organians have returned and they've brought the Interstellar Concordium (ISC) with them!
24 Years AgoTipTop
PCWorldwide
It's hip, daddy-o! Are you a fan of puzzle games and Vegas fifties-style fruit machines? Then TipTop is right up your alley!
24 Years AgoOutlaw Golf: Holiday Golf
Standalone expansionXboxNorth America
The first game in the Outlaw series of sports titles, Outlaw Golf is what you get when you take the classic game of golf and throw in lesbian strippers, wannabe rappers, ex cons and other wild personalities.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.