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Games released on September 25

Seven games that still hold up, from Dragon Warrior Monsters in 1998 to Pathfinder: Kingmaker in 2018

  1. Dragon Warrior Monsters 1998

    Turned 28 this year Game Boy Color

    Terry, as a child, sets out to save his sister, and rather than fight himself he recruits the monsters he meets, coaxing them with meat and breeding two into a stronger one. It began the Dragon Quest Monsters series.

  2. Silent Hill 2 2001

    Turned 25 this year PlayStation 2

    James Sunderland walks through the fog and dark of Silent Hill with a radio that crackles when creatures are near. The horror is psychological, built from regret and fear, and it is regarded as a key example of games as an art form.

  3. Ico 2001

    Turned 25 this year PlayStation 2

    Fumito Ueda's adventure follows Ico as he leads Yorda through a castle by the hand, fending off the shadow creatures that try to drag her away.

  4. Freedom Fighters 2003

    Turned 23 this year GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox

    A third person shooter in which the Soviet Union has invaded New York and Christopher Stone, a plumber, becomes the leader of the resistance, with up to twelve fighters under his orders.

    $1.49 on GOG -90% +1 store

  5. Halo 3 2007

    Turned 19 this year Xbox 360

    Master Chief fights the Covenant and the Flood, alone or alongside up to three players who take the roles of allied alien soldiers. Forge, a map editor, lets you rebuild the multiplayer maps.

  6. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II 2014

    Turned 12 this year PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita

    A month after the first game, Rean Schwarzer comes out of a coma into an Erebonia at civil war, and sets out to gather the scattered members of Class VII one by one, with a save from the first game carried over.

  7. Pathfinder: Kingmaker 2018

    Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One

    A hero is offered a barony in the Stolen Lands for defeating the bandit leader known as the Stag Lord, and then has to rule a kingdom of their own, in a role playing game based on Pathfinder.