Games released on April 30
Seven games that still hold up, from Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven in 1998 to Returnal in 2021
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Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven 1998
Turned 28 this year
Four adventurers who start weak grow into the heroes who save the land of Enroth, seen through their own eyes in first person, in the sixth Might and Magic.
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Child of Light 2014
Turned 12 this year Wii U, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One
Aurora wakes in the land of Lemuria and sets out to free the sun, moon and stars from the Queen of the Night, in a world drawn to look like an animated painting. Most of the dialogue is in rhyme, and a firefly called Igniculus helps in battle.
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Chroma Squad 2015
Turned 11 this year
You run a studio making a show in the style of Super Sentai and the Power Rangers, casting the actors and naming the team and its robot, in a tactical role playing game.
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The Forest 2018
Turned 8 this year
A father stranded in a forest after a plane crash searches for his missing son, building a camp by day while a tribe of cannibals watches him from a distance and decides what to do about him.
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Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark 2019
Turned 7 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A band of arbiters, the world's peacekeepers, faces the revenge of a noble one of them has arrested for murder, in a tactical role playing game of adventurers you create yourself.
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Streets of Rage 4 2020
Turned 6 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Axel and Blaze return ten years after Streets of Rage 3 to take back their city from the children of Mr. X, in a side scrolling beat 'em up for up to four players.
