| Release |
Title |
System |
Developer/Publisher |
Notes |
| January 1 | Battle Arena Toshinden | PlayStation | Tamsoft\SCEA | one of the first fully-3D fighting games |
| January 13 | Bust-a-Move | Super NES | Taito | |
| February 15 | Star Wars: Dark Forces | MS-DOS | LucasArts | is the first in a successful series of Star Wars-based first-person shooters. |
| February 16 | Ristar | Genesis | Sonic Team/Sega | a platform game. |
| February 24 | Front Mission | Super Famicom | G-Craft\Squaresoft | |
| March 10 | Panzer Dragoon | Sega Saturn | Team Andromeda\Sega | |
| March 11 | Chrono Trigger | Super NES | Square | was their largest game for the system at 32 megabits |
| March 14 | Mario's Picross | Game Boy | Jupiter\Nintendo | the first installment in a series of Mario-themed Picross titles released in the mid-90s. |
| March 17 | Descent | MS-DOS | Parallax Software | Portal rendering with texture-mapped polygons, polygonal enemies, and six degrees of freedom. |
| March 21 | Kirby's Dream Land 2 | Game Boy | HAL Laboratory\Nintendo | second installment in the main Kirby series. |
| March 24 | Mega Man 7 | Super NES | Capcom | |
| April 15 | Mortal Kombat 3 | Arcade | | |
| April 27 | Jumping Flash! | PlayStation | Exact/SCEA | |
| April 28 | Super Bomberman 3 | Super NES | Hudson Soft | first game in the Super Bomberman series to not get an American release; final game in the series released outside Japan. |
| April 30 | Full Throttle | | LucasArts | graphical adventure |
| May 25 | Light Crusader | Genesis | Treasure\Sega | |
| May 25 | Shadow Squadron | Sega 32X | Sega | |
| May | King Arthur & the Knights of Justice | Super NES | Enix | The only North America exclusive title released by Enix. |
| June 5 | EarthBound | Super NES | Ape, Inc./Nintendo | is localized for US audiences, garnering a cult following in the US. |
| June 5 | Street Fighter Alpha | Arcade | Capcom | |
| June 7 | Flight Unlimited | MS-DOS, Win95 | Looking Glass Studios | possibly the first home flight simulator to use fluid dynamic physics. |
| June 29 | Aquanaut's Holiday | PlayStation | Artdink, SCEA | A launch title for the PlayStation. |
| July | The Legend of Sword and Fairy | | Softstar | |
| July 21 | Castlevania: Dracula X | Super NES | Konami | SNES port of Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. |
| July 24 | MechWarrior 2 | MS-DOS | Activision | spawned a franchise of BattleTech video games with high production values, helped to spawn the mecha genre of video games |
| July 25 | The King of Fighters '95 | Arcade | SNK | second installment in the King of Fighters series. |
| July 28 | Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22 | PlayStation | Bandai\Infogrames | would not be released in America until 2003, 8 years after its original release. It received overwhelmingly negative reviews. |
| July 31 | Phantasmagoria | | Sierra Online | a controversial game that strays from Sierra's typically family-oriented adventures. |
| August 5 | Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island | Super NES | | One of the last popular platformers for the SNES. |
| August 10 | Bomberman GB 2 | Game Boy | Hudson Soft\Nintendo | would not see release outside Japan until 1998; renamed simply "Bomberman GB" in America & Europe, due to the first installment being released outside Japan as Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! |
| August 31 | Command & Conquer | | Westwood Studios | one of the first popular real-time strategy games and spawns a franchise. |
| August 31 | Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest | | New World Computing | the first game in the popular turn-based strategy game franchise |
| August 31 | Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom | | Origin | ambitious computer game of the time, with a $12 million USD budget for its interactive-movie/space simulation content. |
| August | Comix Zone | Sega Genesis | Sega | A Beat 'em up game heavy inspired by comic books. |
| August | Tekken 2 | Arcade, PS1 | Namco | sold over 3,000,000 copies worldwide. |
| September 1 | Rayman | PlayStation, Saturn | Ubisoft | The first game in the popular series. |
| October 6 | Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together | Super Famicom | Quest Corporation | |
| October 20 | Terranigma | Super NES | Quintet | One of the last Action RPG on SNES. |
| October 27 | Panel de Pon | Super Famicom | Intelligent Systems\Nintendo | released in America under the name "Tetris Attack", featuring a Yoshi's Island theme. |
| October 31 | Destruction Derby | PlayStation | Reflections Interactive\Psygnosis | |
| October 31 | I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream | | Cyberdreams | an adaptation of writer Harlan Ellison's short story that won Computer Gaming World's award for "Best Graphic Adventure Game" of the year. |
| October 31 | Star Wars TIE Fighter: Collector's CD-ROM | PC | LucasArts | |
| October | Time Crisis | Arcade | Namco | |
| November 5 | Twisted Metal | PlayStation | SingleTrac/Sony Computer Entertainment | Longest running PlayStation franchise, popular vehicular combat series. |
| November 21 | Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest | Super NES | Rareware/Nintendo | the sequel to the hugely popular Donkey Kong Country |
| November 24 | Battle Arena Toshinden 2 | Arcade | Tamsoft\Capcom | the only game in the Battle Arena Toshinden series to be released in arcades. |
| November 24 | Marathon 2: Durandal | | Bungie | |
| November 30 | The Dig | | LucasArts | adventure game. |
| December | Worms | Amiga | Team 17 | it is an artillery video game and the first game in the Worms series |
| December | Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium | Genesis | Sega | localizes the 1993 Japanese game US, December 8 EU; marking the end of the original series. |
| December 1 | Mega Man X3 | Super NES | Capcom | |
| December 9 | Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation | Super Famicom | Heartbeat\Enix | |
| December 9 | Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | | Blizzard | sequel to their initial real-time strategy title, and a far more refined and popular title. |
| December 15 | Tales of Phantasia | Super Famicom | Namco | the first in the Tales series. |
| December 15 | Suikoden | PlayStation | Konami | debut of the Suikoden series |
| December 15 | Brain Dead 13 | MS-DOS | ReadySoft | An "FMV adventure" game from the creators of Dragon's Lair. |
| December 22 | Final Fight 3 | Super NES | Capcom | |
| December 29 | Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand | Super Famicom | Nihon Falcom | |
| December 31 | The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery | | Sierra On-Line | Adventure game; sequel to Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. |
| December 31 | King's Field II | PlayStation | From Software\ASCII Corporation\SCEE | first game in the King's Field series to be released outside Japan; renamed simply "King's Field" in NTSC-U/C and PAL regions. |
