ON THIS DAY IN GAMING
December 31
The games released on this day in gaming history.
1077 releases
13 Years AgoAstebreed
PCJapan
You are Roy Becket, a young pilot with dreams of becoming as skilled as his adoptive father.
31 Years AgoNBA Live 96
PCWorldwide
As with all games in the NBA Live series you can draft, trade and edit players. Play a full season, exhibition or just the playoffs. 96 includes 29 teams including the expansion Toronto and Vancouver teams.
11 Years AgoLoading Screen Simulator
Web browserNorth America
A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition
7 Years AgoLove Nikki: Dress Up Queen
AndroidiOSAsia
Love Nikki-Dress UP Queen is a free-to-play mobile game centered around fashion battles between titular player character Nikki and the people she encounters on her journey through fantastical fashion lands.
30 Years AgoWWF In Your House
DOSNorth America
WWF In Your House is a successor to WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game. Like its predecessor, it is a hybrid of wrestling game and arcade versus fighter, with over-the-top, unrealistic moves.
40 Years AgoRambo: First Blood Part II
C64Europe
Free-roaming action/shooter available for the usual assortment of U.K.-popular computers.
32 Years AgoSerf City: Life is Feudal
DOSNorth America
A strategy game with cartoony graphics and an innocent line in humour. At the start of the level you choose a starting point, the intention being to get lots of flat land as well as resources to mine and ideally existing sources of trees, stones and water (for fish).
18 Years AgoShin Megami Tensei: Imagine
PCNorth America
Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine, formerly known as Megami Tensei Online: Imagine, was a massively multiplayer online role-playing game for Microsoft Windows personal computers.
35 Years AgoBarbie
DOSNorth America
Barbie is a video game developed by Imagineering Inc based after the famous Barbie doll, created by Mattel Inc.
34 Years AgoStreets of Rage
PortGame GearNorth America
The 8-bit port of Streets of Rage, released originally for the Sega Game Gear.
30 Years AgoM.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration
DOSWorldwide
Your Mission: colonize new worlds on distant planets. As the Mission Commander, you and the Mechanized Assault & Exploration (M.A.X.) Force you lead are the first ones in.
30 Years AgoRealms of Arkania III: Shadows over Riva
DOSEurope
Something sinister lurks in the seaside town of Riva. An evil force has subverted the city's leaders, and evil things lurk in the town's sewers. Explore the huge city, dungeons and even underwater regions in stunningly detailed 3D.
16 Years AgoUmineko: Golden Fantasia
PCJapan
The tag-team fighting game based on the original "Umineko When They Cry" series, finally released on Steam, in English and with improved rollback netplay!
40 Years AgoAlleykat
C64Europe
Alleykat is a vertically-scrolling racer with elements of a shoot-em up game. The player, a speeder pilot, strives to become the Alleykat Champion by competing in eight space stadiums scattered around the galaxy.
38 Years AgoBattle Ships
AmigaC64North America
A computerised version of the old pencil and paper game combining simple strategy with sheer guess-work.
19 Years AgoTop Hunter: Roddy & Cathy
WiiNorth America
Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy is a side-scrolling platform video game developed by SNK for its Neo Geo Arcade system, which was released in 1994. It was later released for Neo Geo CD, and much later for the Wii virtual console.
13 Years AgoSuper Noah's Ark 3D
SNESNorth America
Super 3D Noah's Ark is an unlicensed Christian-themed video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and DOS.
5 Years AgoEufloria HD
RemasterSwitchNorth AmericaEurope
Experience “Eufloria HD”, the new edition of Eufloria, an incredibly addictive ambient strategy game that anyone can play! Explore a beautifully realized universe rendered in a style that is unique and compelling.
19 Years AgoeXceed 2nd: Vampire REX
RemakePCJapan
The human powers-that-be called for the purification of mankind and the eradication of vampires and ‘deviants bloodlines’ – those born of a mix of human and vampire. And so began massive purges of the deviants that were reminiscent of the “witch hunts” of centuries earlier.
19 Years AgoRosenkreuzstilette
PCJapan
In Rosenkreuzstilette, the player takes control of Spiritia Rosenberg in traditional Mega Man fashion; navigating through enemy and trap laden stages, defeating the stage's boss at the end of each stage (in Rosenkreuzstilette's case, each o…
10 Years AgoPolyball
PCNorth America
Get ready to enter a new era of physics platforming. Polyball is a classic ball rolling game in the vein of Super Monkey Ball, Marble Madness, and Marble Blast - while taking cues from games such as the Sonic series, Trials, and Mario Kart.
6 Years AgoDeemo: Reborn
SwitchNorth America
A 3D remake of the 2013 mobile game Deemo being developed for the PlayStation 4, with support for PlayStation VR, under the temporary title of Deemo: Reborn.
29 Years AgoMadSpace: To Hell and Beyond
PCNorth America
News has come back to Earth of an intergalactic war rapidly approaching. There is only one hope left. You.
19 Years AgoCoded Arms Contagion
PSPJapan
Coded Arms Contagion is the sequel to Coded Arms. The gameplay is similar to the first game, Coded Arms. However, this time player has only 13 levels (and a training) with no random geometry, plus challenges which are available upon completion of a level.
Game data provided by IGDB.com. Original release dates only – not the dates of fan translations.