Games released on October 17
Nine games that still hold up, from Secret of Evermore in 1995 to RimWorld in 2018
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Secret of Evermore 1995
Turned 31 this year SNES
A boy and his shapeshifting dog land in the world of Evermore, whose realms look like prehistory, antiquity, the Middle Ages and a future, in a Super Nintendo action role playing game with alchemy.
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Zoo Tycoon 2001
A zoo management game in which every animal wants an exhibit of its own, a lion its savanna, and the guests follow the animals. Fences decay, and an animal that escapes can attack a visitor.
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The Warriors 2005
Turned 21 this year PlayStation 2, Xbox
A brawler based on the 1979 film, set in the gritty New York of the 1970s over the three months before the Warriors are framed for murder. You fight as one member of the gang while the others fight beside you.
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Bully 2006
Turned 20 this year PlayStation 2
An open world game in which Jimmy Hopkins, a teenage troublemaker, is sent to Bullworth Academy and tries to rise through the school and earn the respect of its cliques.
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Sam & Max: Save the World 2006
Sam, a dog detective in a fedora, and Max, his hyperkinetic rabbity partner, take on one case per episode as the Freelance Police, while a hypnotism conspiracy builds up in the background.
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The Stanley Parable 2013
Turned 13 this year
A narrator describes what Stanley does next before he does it, and you can follow him or defy him. There is no combat, only buttons and doors, and the 2013 version has more than ten endings that all send Stanley back to the office.
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Goodbye Deponia 2013
Turned 13 this year
Rufus is still trying to get off the junk planet to Elysium, the city in the sky, as the Organon's plan to destroy Deponia comes due, and after a mishap there are three of him.
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South Park: The Fractured But Whole 2017
Turned 9 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One
One day after The Stick of Truth, the New Kid joins the children of South Park in a roleplay between two rival superhero factions.
