July 2009 - games, that were released this month

Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition

Arcade, Strategy, In real time, Platformer, Third-person view, Turn-based

July 1, 2009 → Xbox 360

Worms: Reloaded Game of the Year Edition is a third-person arcade turn-based strategy game with platformer elements. Experience the visuals of a new...

King of Fighters '98: Ultimate Match

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Arcade

July 1, 2009 → Xbox 360

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This arcade fighting game brings characters from the King of Fighters series together for a “dream match” in which selected fighters face off...

Lunnye Devitsy

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Metroidvania, Side view

July 1, 2009 → PC

Steam: 69/100

This adventure platformer follows an alien who falls from the moon onto a mountainside on a strange planet and must find a way home. The player...

Return to Mysterious Island 2

Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Point & Click, Casual game

July 1, 2009 → PC; July 10, 2009 → PC

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 64/100

Return to Mysterious Island 2 is an adventure logic puzzle game with a first-person view in the point and click genre. Mina's rescue at the end of...

Rolando 2: Quest for the Golden Orchid

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle

July 1, 2009 → iOS; July 2, 2009 → iPhone

Metacritic: 90/100

This action platformer with puzzles follows a group of Rolandos on a journey across tropical islands in search of the fabled Golden Orchid. They...

Street Fighter 4

Action, Fighting, Third-person view, Anime / Manga

July 1, 2009 → PC; July 3, 2009 → PC; July 7, 2009 → PC

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 91/100

Street Fighter IV is a fighting game that returns the series to its classic two-dimensional combat, pairing familiar moves from Street Fighter II...

Worms 2: Armageddon

Strategy, Puzzle, Turn-based, Tactics, Side view

July 1, 2009 → Xbox 360

Players: 7.4/10

Metacritic: 80/100

Worms 2: Armageddon is a special edition of the tactical strategy Worms 2 for consoles and mobile devices. The game will tell about the famous and...

Burdaloo

Strategy, Puzzle

July 1, 2009 → Mac

Burdaloo is a strategy game with puzzle elements from developers from CasualCafe and Pretty Good Games Corp. studios. The game is published by...

Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Indie

July 1, 2009 → Mac

Players: 10/10

Steam: 65/100

This cartoon-style third-person shooter follows the last surviving Legionnaire as he takes on an entire rebel army. Its short campaign features a...

Jewel Twist

Strategy, Puzzle, Sandbox

July 1, 2009 → PC

Jewel Twist is a strategy game with puzzle and sandbox elements from the masters at Kristanix Studios ANS. The game is published by Kristanix Studios...

Lost City of Aquatica

Strategy, Business / Management, Top-down view, Puzzle

July 1, 2009 → Mac

Lost City of Aquatica is a top-down strategy with business simulator and puzzle elements from developers from the Camel 101 studio. The game is...

Secrets of the Vatican: The Holy Lance

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle

July 1, 2009 → iPhone; July 22, 2009 → Mac

Secrets of the Vatican: The Holy Lance is a first-person adventure with puzzle elements from the masters of Mzone Studio and SOLILAB. The game is...

Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 - Know Thy Enemy

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

July 1, 2009 → Browser

Several Journeys of Reemus: Chapter 3 — Know Thy Enemy is a third-person adventure with a mix of puzzle and fantasy from developer Zeebarf. The...

Tikibar

Strategy, Business / Management, Third-person view, Puzzle

July 1, 2009 → Mac

Tikibar is a third-person strategy game with business simulation and puzzle elements from the Camel 101 studio. The main publisher of the game is...

WordIt

Strategy, Educational game (Education), Puzzle

July 1, 2009 → Browser

WordIt is a strategy game mixed with educational game and puzzle game from the masters at Creative Spark Studios. The PC version of WordIt...

Trine

Action, Platformer, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op)

July 2, 2009 → PC; July 10, 2009 → PC

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 82/100

This fantasy action-platformer with physics-based puzzles follows a wizard, a knight and a thief whose fates become bound by a mysterious artifact...

Red Faction 2

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Science fiction

July 2, 2009 → PC

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 52/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A first-person shooter set on twenty-second-century Earth, where a squad of super-soldiers moves against the dictator Sopot. Five years after the...

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Online

July 2, 2009 → PC; July 3, 2009 → PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is a continuation of the dynamic western with a first-person view in the Call of Juarez series. The events of the game...

Capcom Classics Collection Remixed

Action, Fighting, Flight Simulator, First-person view, Third-person view, Isometric, Top-down view, Collection, Historical

July 2, 2009 → PSP

Metacritic: 72/100

This collection brings together 20 classic Capcom games, including 1941, Avengers, Block Block, Captain Commando, Magic Sword, Quiz and Dragons...

Dementium: The Ward

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Old school, Survival horror, Survival

July 2, 2009 → Nintendo DS

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Waking up in an abandoned hospital with no memory of the past, the hero finds himself in a nightmare where the walls whisper, shadows breathe, and...

FUEL

First-person view, Third-person view, Sports game, Post-apocalyptic, Motorcycle racing, Racing

July 2, 2009 → PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360; July 3, 2009 → PC; July 23, 2009 → PC; July 29, 2009 → PC

Players: 8.4/10

Metacritic: 67/100

FUEL is an arcade racing simulator with first-person and third-person views. The game takes place in a dystopian future, where the entire world is...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

Action, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

July 2, 2009 → PSP, Nintendo DS

Players: 8.7/10

Metacritic: 60/100

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) — in the game you can freely travel throughout all the lands of Hogwarts and cast spells on any...

Time Gentlemen, Please!

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle

July 2, 2009 → PC

Metacritic: 84/100

A third-person adventure puzzle about time travel and an attempt to undo events that wiped out all human life. In Time Gentlemen, Please!, the...

The Punisher: No Mercy

July 2, 2009 → PlayStation 3

Metacritic: 47/100

A first-person shooter inspired by Marvel Comics’ Punisher stories, built primarily around fast-paced online combat. Players choose from the...

2K Huge Games Pack

Collection

July 2, 2009 → PC

2K Huge Games Pack is a game. The game is published by 2K Games...

Aubergine Sky

Adventure, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic

July 2, 2009 → Browser

Aubergine Sky is a third-person adventure game. There has still been no announcement of Aubergine Sky for...

Ceville

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Point & Click, Strategy

July 2, 2009 → PC; July 7, 2009 → PC

Players: 3/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This fantasy point-and-click adventure follows Ceville, a former tyrant driven from the palace of Faeryanis after the people rise against him. While...

G.H.O.S.T Chronicles: Phantom of the Renaissance Faire

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle

July 2, 2009 → PC; July 31, 2009 → Mac

G.H.O.S.T Chronicles: Phantom of the Renaissance Faire is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror and puzzle from the developers of Aisle 5...

Ishar Compilation

Role-playing game, Action, In real time, First-person view, Collection, Fantasy / Medieval

July 2, 2009 → PC

Ishar Compilation is a first-person RPG with action and fantasy elements from Silmarils. The main publisher of the game is DotEmu...

M¿nd Quiz

Action, Educational game (Education)

July 2, 2009 → PSP

M¿nd Quiz is an action game with a touch of educational game from the masters from the SEGA Toys studio. The main publisher of the game is...

MoneySeize

Action, Platformer, Third-person view

July 2, 2009 → PC, Browser

MoneySeize is a third-person action game with a dash of platforming. The main publisher of the game is Kongregate. In some circles MoneySeize is also...

NumBlast

Strategy, Puzzle, Board / Group Game

July 2, 2009 → PlayStation 3, PSP

Players: 7/10

NumBlast is a strategy with puzzle elements from developers from the studio Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. The game is published by Sony Computer...

Overlord: Dark Legend

Strategy, Third-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval

July 2, 2009 → Wii

Players: 9.6/10

Metacritic: 68/100

This fantasy action-adventure with strategy and puzzle elements takes place before the original Overlord and gives fairy-tale lore a satirical twist...

Personal Nightmare

Adventure, Horror, First-person view

July 2, 2009 → PC

Personal Nightmare is a first-person adventure with a touch of horror from developers from the Horror Soft studio. The game is published by Horror...

Pokémon Platinum Version

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Turn-based

July 2, 2009 → Nintendo DS

Metacritic: 83/100

This turn-based role-playing game is set in the Sinnoh region and introduces the mysterious Distortion World, a place unlike other locations in the...

Rats! (2009)

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view

July 2, 2009 → iPhone

Rats! (2009) is a top-down...

Boku no Natsuyasumi 4

Simulation, Adventure

July 2, 2009 → PSP

Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 is a simulator with adventure elements from developers from the Millennium Kitchen studio. The game is published by Sony...

Powerboat Challenge

Third-person view, Sports game

July 3, 2009 → iPhone

Powerboat Challenge is a sports game with a third-person view from developers from the Fishlabs Entertainment GmbH studio. The game is published by...

Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Hidden Objects

July 3, 2009 → PC

Steam: 71/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This first-person adventure with puzzles and horror elements unfolds at a Welsh estate where ancient myths begin to intrude on modern life. The...

Virtua Tennis 2009

Third-person view, Sports game, Tennis

July 3, 2009 → PC; July 10, 2009 → PC

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 70/100

Virtua Tennis 2009 — Includes a World Tour mode and a fully integrated online ranking system. All of the new player creation options give the...