Games released on February 5
Five games that still hold up, from Harvest Moon 64 in 1999 to XCOM 2 in 2016
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Harvest Moon 64 1999
Turned 27 this year Nintendo 64
You inherit your grandfather's abandoned farm and bring it back to life over the four seasons, among villagers who keep their own daily schedules, five of them girls you can marry.
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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter 2002
Turned 24 this year
On the way from ancient Egypt to Sirius, Sam Stone's ship crashes back to Earth, and he needs the Holy Grail to go on, through arenas of enemy waves and rooms where gravity points several ways.
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Demon's Souls 2009
Turned 17 this year PlayStation 3
A hero is brought to Boletaria, a kingdom consumed by a dark being called the Old One, to kill its fallen king Allant. It is often described as the first Soulslike.
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Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time 2013
Turned 13 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita
Sly Cooper gets the gang back together to save the Thievius Raccoonus, whose pages are being rewritten through time, pulling heists beside his ancestors from feudal Japan to the Wild West.
