Games released on September 27

Seven games that still hold up, from Far Cry Instincts in 2005 to Life Is Strange 2 in 2018

  1. Far Cry Instincts 2005

    Turned 21 this year Xbox

    An Xbox remake of Far Cry, more linear than the Windows game and with a modified story that gives its hero Feral Abilities.

  2. Vintage Story 2016

    Turned 10 this year

    As a humanoid seraph in a procedurally generated voxel world with seasons, you survive and work forward through the metal ages by recreating ancient crafts.

  3. Forza Horizon 3 2016

    Turned 10 this year Xbox One

    In a fictionalized Australia, you run the Horizon festival and grow it by winning fans, in an open world arcade racer with about 350 cars at launch.

  4. FIFA 17 2016

    Turned 10 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One

    Alex Hunter, a young talent in the Premier League, is followed through The Journey, a story mode whose match ratings decide whether he starts, in a FIFA built for the first time on the Frostbite engine.

  5. Wandersong 2018

    Turned 8 this year Switch

    The Bard, a wandering singer, sets out to gather the pieces of a song that can save the world from destruction, in a puzzle adventure where music does the work.

    $5.99 on Xbox -70%

  6. The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV 2018

    Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4

    Class VII frees Rean and tries to stop a war that is engulfing the Erebonian Empire, with a party of over twenty heroes, in the concluding chapter of the Cold Steel story.

  7. Life Is Strange 2 2018

    Turned 8 this year PlayStation 4, Xbox One

    An episodic adventure in which Sean Diaz flees Seattle with his younger brother Daniel, who has just discovered telekinetic powers, for their father's family home in Mexico.