Games released on May 14

Five games that still hold up, from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War in 1996 to A Plague Tale: Innocence in 2019

1. 

   Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War 1996

   Turned 30 this year SNES

   A war across the continent of Jugdral, split between eight countries founded by the Twelve Crusaders, told over two generations, first with Sigurd and then with his son Seliph.

2. On sale

   Killing Floor 2009

   Turned 17 this year

   A squad of soldiers holds off waves of clones from a failed experiment in London, buying weapons from a trader between waves, in a cooperative shooter whose main mode ends on a boss called the Patriarch.

   $3.99 on Fanatical -80%

3. On sale

   Alan Wake 2010

   Turned 16 this year Xbox 360

   The novelist Alan Wake loses his wife Alice in the small town of Bright Falls and finds the events of a novel he does not remember writing coming to life.

   $1.49 on GOG -90%

4. On sale

   Metro: Last Light 2013

   Turned 13 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

   After a nuclear war, Artyom, a young soldier in the Moscow Metro, is sent to find the mysterious Dark Ones while rival factions fight over a bunker. His moral choices decide which of two endings he reaches.

   $1.99 on Fanatical -90%

5. On sale

   A Plague Tale: Innocence 2019

   Turned 7 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One

   In France in 1348, Amicia, a noble girl of fifteen, flees with her sick little brother Hugo from soldiers and plague rats.

   $3.59 on Fanatical -91%