Games released on September 20

10 games that still hold up, from Elite in 1984 to Untitled Goose Game in 2019

  1. Elite 1984

    Turned 42 this year

    Commander Jameson starts at Lave Station with 100 credits and a Cobra Mark III, trading, fighting, hunting bounties or mining between stars in wire frame 3D, in Braben and Bell's 1984 space game.

  2. The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall 1996

    Turned 30 this year DOS

    In the second Elder Scrolls, the Emperor sends you to free the ghost of King Lysandus, across High Rock and Hammerfell and over 15,000 cities, towns, villages and dungeons.

  3. Commandos 2: Men of Courage 2001

    Turned 25 this year

    In this real time tactics game, a squad of commandos, each with abilities of their own, carries out missions from 1941 to 1944 across Europe and the Pacific, joined now by the Thief and Whiskey the dog.

    $2.27 on Fanatical -55% +1 store

  4. Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2004

    Turned 22 this year

    On the planet Tartarus, the Blood Ravens, Space Marines under Captain Gabriel Angelos, fight off an Ork invasion alongside the Imperial Guard, in a real time strategy game set in Warhammer 40,000.

    $2.99 on GOG -80% +1 store

  5. Gears of War 3 2011

    Turned 15 this year Xbox 360

    Two years after humanity's last stronghold fell to the Locust Horde, a new enemy, the Lambent, threatens the survivors.

  6. Torchlight II 2012

    Turned 14 this year

    The sequel that opened Torchlight's one town and its dungeon out into a world, an action role playing game with four classes of three skill trees and a pet that carries your loot to town.

    $3.20 on GMG -84% +2 stores

  7. Bayonetta 2 2014

    Turned 12 this year Wii U

    PlatinumGames' action game fights with melee and guns at once, weapons on hands and feet, and a dodge at the last moment slows the enemies into Witch Time. Tag Climax brings in a second player for waves of enemies.

  8. CrossCode 2018

    Turned 8 this year

    Lea, a silent protagonist, plays CrossWorlds, an online role playing game inside the game, in a top down action role playing game with large dungeons full of puzzles.

  9. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening 2019

    Turned 7 this year Switch

    Link is stranded on Koholint Island and sets out to find the eight instruments of the Sirens, in a remake of the 1993 Game Boy game drawn in a toy like tilt shift look.

  10. Untitled Goose Game 2019

    Turned 7 this year Switch

    A stealth puzzle game in which you play a goose bothering the people of an English village, with a to do list of mischief in each area.

    $7.99 on Nintendo -60% +1 store