Games released on January 31
Six games that still hold up, from Soul Blazer in 1992 to Sunless Skies in 2019
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Soul Blazer 1992
Turned 34 this year SNES
A servant of the Master is sent into a world emptied by the evil spirit Deathtoll, to free the souls imprisoned in monster lairs and watch the towns fill up with people again.
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Final Fantasy VII 1997
Turned 29 this year PlayStation
A band of fighters takes on Shinra, a megacorporation draining the planet's Lifestream for energy, with Materia to reshape each of them between fights. The first Final Fantasy in 3D, it helped take Japanese role playing games worldwide.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl 2008
Turned 18 this year Wii
Masahiro Sakurai's Smash Bros. for the Wii gathers 39 fighters on 41 stages. Solid Snake and Sonic were the first from outside Nintendo, and The Subspace Emissary adds a side scrolling adventure.
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Devil May Cry 4 2008
Turned 18 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Nero, a young man with demonic powers, sets out to stop Dante, and both fight through missions graded up to SSS for the style of their combos, in the fourth Devil May Cry.
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Antichamber 2013
Turned 13 this year
Alexander Bruce's first person puzzle game, built on impossible spaces where a passage leads somewhere different depending on which way you face.
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Sunless Skies 2019
Turned 7 this year
You captain a locomotive that flies between the stars of a Victorian empire, in this sequel to Sunless Sea. London has opened a gateway to the High Wilderness, where stars are godlike beings and terrors wait in the dark.
