Games released on August 7
Six games that still hold up, from Tales of Vesperia in 2008 to Overcooked! 2 in 2018
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Tales of Vesperia 2008
Turned 18 this year Xbox 360
Yuri Lowell, a former Imperial soldier, forms the guild Brave Vesperia to help a noblewoman named Estelle, in a world where the energy aer powers devices called Blastia.
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Hearts of Iron III 2009
Turned 17 this year
Paradox's grand strategy game of the Second World War, in which any nation in the world can be yours, while the rest drift slowly towards the Axis, the Allies or the Comintern.
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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons 2013
Turned 13 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
An adventure in which two brothers cross a fantasy land of orcs and trolls to find a cure for their sick father, and you steer both with one controller, one stick for each.
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SteamWorld Dig 2013
Turned 13 this year Nintendo 3DS
A platformer whose world you take apart rather than cross, in which Rusty, a steam driven robot, inherits a mine under the town of Tumbleton and digs.
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Dead Cells 2018
Turned 8 this year
Motion Twin's roguevania starts every run in a prison and ends it in permanent death, through levels rebuilt each time from hand made sections. The cells you carry out of a run buy upgrades that last.
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Overcooked! 2 2018
Turned 8 this year Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Up to four chefs cook their way across the Onion Kingdom to stop the Unbread, a plague of zombie toast, in kitchens with moving floors, portals and fires. Some levels change setting and recipes halfway through.
