Games released on August 20
Nine games that still hold up, from Medieval: Total War in 2002 to Remnant: From the Ashes in 2019
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Medieval: Total War 2002
Turned 24 this year
A dynasty is built across medieval Europe, North Africa and the Middle East from 1087 to 1453, on a turn based campaign map with battles and sieges fought in real time. Factions such as the Golden Horde arrive at their historical moment.
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The Thing 2002
Turned 24 this year PlayStation 2, Xbox
A Special Forces captain leads a squad into the Antarctic outpost from John Carpenter's film, where any of his men could be the shape-shifting alien, and any of them may turn on him if they stop trusting him.
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Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 2004
Turned 22 this year Game Boy Advance
An orphan, boy or girl, discovers that a former friend has reawakened a great evil, in an action role-playing game for the Game Boy Advance whose weapons wear out in real-time fights.
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Thirty Flights of Loving 2012
Turned 14 this year
A short first person adventure of about fifteen minutes, about three people preparing for an alcohol smuggling heist and what comes after, told out of order. It is an indirect sequel to Gravity Bone.
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Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist 2013
Turned 13 this year Wii U, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Sam Fisher of the Fourth Echelon works to stop the Engineers, terrorists who want to force the United States to bring its troops home, in the seventh Splinter Cell.
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Saints Row IV 2013
Turned 13 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Xbox One
The Saints Row in which the Boss is President of the United States, until the alien Zin invade and lock the President and the Saints in a simulation of Steelport. It grew out of a cancelled expansion to the previous game.
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Shadowrun: Hong Kong 2015
Turned 11 this year
A turn based tactics game in the Shadowrun universe, with a new single player campaign and a level editor for making and sharing campaigns of your own.
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Bad North 2018
Turned 8 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Viking longboats raid a small kingdom's islands one after another, and a handful of units under their commanders have to hold each one, in a real time tactics game about where to stand.
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Remnant: From the Ashes 2019
Turned 7 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
A third person shooter in the spirit of Dark Souls, in which the Root, a thing from another dimension, has taken the Earth and you go out through it from a bunker, across generated worlds.
