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Games released on October 18

10 games that still hold up, from Wipeout XL in 1996 to Manifold Garden in 2019

  1. Wipeout XL 1996

    Turned 30 this year PlayStation

    Anti gravity racing moves up to the faster F5000 league, where the Quake Disruptor throws rivals into the air, to music from The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. Outside North America and Japan it was called Wipeout 2097.

  2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All 2002

    Turned 24 this year

    Phoenix Wright defends four clients accused of murder, with Maya Fey at his side, gathering evidence on investigation days and catching contradictions in court, one case unlocking the next.

  3. Shadow of the Colossus 2005

    Turned 21 this year PlayStation 2

    There are no small monsters, no towns and nobody to talk to, only a horse called Agro and sixteen colossi the size of cathedrals, each one to be climbed. It is often held up as an example of games as art.

  4. F.E.A.R. 2005

    Turned 21 this year

    Point Man, the newest recruit of the F.E.A.R. unit, goes after a psychic in the city of Fairport in 2025, haunted all the while by a girl called Alma Wade. He can carry only three guns, and the heavy ones slow him down.

    $1.64 on Fanatical -84%

  5. Age of Empires III 2005

    Turned 21 this year

    A real time strategy game that starts with a town center, an explorer and a few villagers and climbs through Ages that stand for historical periods. Experience earns shipments from your Home City, units, upgrades or resources.

  6. Quake 4 2005

    Turned 21 this year

    A Marine corporal joins an elite squad to invade the home world of the cyborg Strogg, in a Raven Software shooter that continues the story of Quake II, for 16 player online matches.

    $4.49 on Fanatical -70% +1 store

  7. Batman: Arkham City 2011

    Turned 15 this year PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

    Rocksteady's open world sequel to Arkham Asylum sends Batman, eighteen months later, into a super prison built from Gotham's slums to investigate the scheme its warden, Hugo Strange, is running.

    $3.29 on Fanatical -84% +2 stores

  8. Euro Truck Simulator 2 2012

    Turned 14 this year

    A truck simulator in which you haul cargo across a condensed Europe, starting as a freelance driver and saving for a truck of your own, a garage and a fleet of hired drivers.

    $4.99 on Steam -75%

  9. Return of the Obra Dinn 2018

    Turned 8 this year

    In 1807 a ship missing since 1803 returns, and the fate of all sixty souls aboard has to be worked out, in 1-bit black and white. A pocket watch recreates each death at the moment it happened, and nobody tells you who anyone is.

  10. Manifold Garden 2019

    Turned 7 this year Xbox One

    In an abstract world of buildings that repeat forever in every direction, you turn walls into floors by shifting gravity, in a first person puzzle game where falling off a ledge can land you on top of it.