Carrion flips the usual horror setup: instead of fleeing a creature, you are the tentacled monster, slithering through a research facility and hunting down the humans who stand in your path. Play centres on navigating the complex and ambushing the people inside, an approach its creators label reverse horror. It comes from Polish studio Phobia Game Studio, was published by Devolver Digital in 2020, and runs on the MonoGame framework.
Cassette Beasts is a role-playing game that draws on the Pokemon series, letting players record monsters onto tapes and use a cassette player to turn into those creatures in battle. The story follows the player's attempt to find a way back home. It was created by Bytten Studio in the United Kingdom and published by Raw Fury, launching on PC in April 2023. Critics responded favourably to its depth, and it earned a 2024 BAFTA Games Award nomination.
CastleStorm is a genre mashup that combines tower defense, brawler-style fighting, and 2D physics-driven destruction. Its concept grew from the childhood fun of building toy castles and then smashing them, so defending your own stronghold and wrecking enemy walls go hand in hand. Hungarian developer Zen Studios created and self-published it in 2013; a Definitive Edition, a free-to-play mobile spin-off, a VR adaptation, and a 2020 sequel followed.
Cat Quest II is an action role-playing game from The Gentlebros, a studio based in Singapore, released in 2019 as a follow-up to the original Cat Quest. Players guide two rulers, a feline monarch and a canine monarch, who team up to win back their thrones from oppressive rule. The fantasy world is full of magic, monsters to fight and loot to gather, and the adventure can be played alone or cooperatively with a friend controlling the second hero.
Cat Quest III is the third entry in The Gentlebros' Cat Quest series, an action role-playing game released in 2024 and published by Kepler Interactive. This time the hero is a feline privateer roaming a 2.5D open world overrun by rat pirates, sailing a ship between islands in search of treasure while a Pirate King gives chase. The Gentlebros are a development studio based in Singapore.
Cave Story+ is an enhanced edition of Cave Story, a Metroidvania in which Quote, a robot with amnesia, explores cave systems to piece together his past and find a way out. Collecting crystals powers up his weapons and opens new areas, alongside platforming puzzles and conversations with the locals. Daisuke Amaya made the original alone in Japan in 2004, and Nicalis brought this version to Steam in November 2011.
Centum is a point-and-click adventure game from Hack The Publisher, a studio in Estonia, published by Serenity Forge. It launched on March 11, 2025 across Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, and Xbox One and Series X/S. Play follows the genre's familiar structure of exploring scenes and interacting with them, and the game earned generally favorable reviews along with a Metacritic score of 75.
Chained Echoes is a role-playing game modeled on 1990s Japanese RPGs, pairing turn-based battles with 16-bit style pixel art and a story told through several characters. Its unlikely heroes try to halt a war between three kingdoms. The game was created by Matthias Linda, credited on Steam as Umami Tiger, a developer from Germany, and published by Deck13 in 2022. Reviewers felt it matched the classics that inspired it while adding modern improvements.
A remake of the 1985 title Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, Chaos Reborn is a tactical role-playing game played in turns. It expands the original with a role-playing meta layer and gear such as armour, staves and talismans that grant extra spells and abilities. Snapshot Games, based in Bulgaria, partly funded it on Kickstarter, opened early access in December 2014 and released the full game in October 2015.
Inspired by tokusatsu television, especially Super Sentai and Power Rangers, Chroma Squad plays as a tactical RPG that channels the feel of those costumed hero shows. It was developed by Brazilian team Behold Studios, financed through Kickstarter, and released in April 2015 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Console and mobile versions arrived in the following years, including a Nintendo Switch edition in 2019.
Cinders retells the Cinderella story in the form of a visual novel. Polish indie studio MoaCube developed and published it, debuting it on PC and Mac in 2012; Nintendo Switch received it in 2019, while PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions came in 2020. The game was built with GameMaker and is listed on Steam as an adventure title with an indie tag.
Citizen Sleeper is a role-playing game from Jump Over the Age, a developer based in the United Kingdom, released in 2022 with publishing handled by Fellow Traveller. Its Steam listing places it across adventure and RPG categories, and it launched on Windows and Mac in May of that year before reaching consoles. The game proved successful enough to receive a sequel, Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, which came out in January 2025.
City of Brass is a first-person, single-player dungeon crawler set in a procedurally generated city inspired by the Arabian Nights. Playing as a thief, you fight through winding corridors, courtyards and rooms full of traps and enemies in search of treasure hidden at the city's heart. It was developed by Uppercut Games, an independent studio from Australia, using Unreal Engine 4, and entered Steam Early Access in September 2017 before its 2018 release.
Cloudpunk is a cyberpunk adventure with role-playing leanings and a science fiction backdrop. It was made by Ion Lands, a studio based in Germany, and published together with Maple Whispering Limited, arriving on Windows in April 2020. Stage Clear Studios in Madrid later brought it to Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions. It suits players drawn to atmospheric sci-fi adventures.
CloverPit is a roguelite with a psychological horror edge, in which the player must work down a steadily growing debt by gambling on a slot machine. Each run pushes the stakes higher as repayment becomes harder to meet. It was made by Panik Arcade, a studio from Italy, and published by Future Friends Games, launching on Steam on September 26, 2025. According to its Wikipedia entry, it has since passed one million copies sold.
Cocoon is a 2023 puzzle adventure from Danish studio Geometric Interactive, published by Annapurna Interactive. Players control a beetle able to hop between worlds, solving puzzles as they uncover the mysteries of its universe. It launched in September 2023 on Windows as well as Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and critics received it generally positively, with a Metacritic score of 88.
Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly is a visual novel and the sequel to Coffee Talk, continuing the series' focus on conversation and café life. It was developed and published by Toge Productions, a studio in Indonesia, and released in April 2023. It started out as planned downloadable content for the first game, but its story and gameplay grew enough that the team made it a standalone release. It came shortly after the death of series creator Mohammad Fahmi.
من تطوير Chorus Worldwide Games, Toge Productions · إندونيسيا
Coffee Talk Tokyo is a visual novel spin-off that moves the series from Seattle to Tokyo in 2026. You run a cafe late at night, serving humans and yokai who share their stories and work through their conflicts in conversation, with topics such as overwork culture woven in. It was developed by Toge Productions of Indonesia together with Chorus Worldwide, which published it in May 2026, and it was praised for its pixel art and music.
من تطوير Zorro, Wilnyl, Philip, thePetHen, Skog · السويد
Content Warning is a co-op survival horror game for up to four players who ride a diving bell into an abandoned underground realm called the Old World. There they film the monsters they encounter, then head back up to post the footage on the in-game site SpöökTube. Hitting view-count targets keeps the run going, and ad money buys upgrades. Published by Landfall and developed in Sweden, it arrived on Windows on 1 April 2024 as an April Fools' Day release.
Convoy is a roguelike with squad-based tactical combat, drawn in pixel art. Players drive an armoured semi-trailer truck across a desert planet's wastelands, hunting for parts of a downed spaceship, and the story advances through text scenarios where chosen responses can lead into battles. It was made by Convoy Games in the Netherlands and launched in April 2015, partly funded by a Kickstarter that raised over 22,000 euros.
Cookie Clicker is an incremental game created in 2013 by French programmer Julien Thiennot, known as Orteil. You start by clicking a giant cookie, then spend your haul on buildings that bake automatically and upgrades that boost every source of output. Production grows exponentially and the tone gradually drifts toward cosmic horror. There is no traditional ending; instead you can ascend to restart with faster growth, and the game is credited with helping shape idle gaming.
Coral Island is a farming simulation game with life-sim and adventure elements, in which days are spent tending land and taking part in island life. It was developed by Stairway Games, a studio in Indonesia, and built in Unreal Engine 4. The game entered early access on PC in October 2022 and had its full release on PC and consoles on November 14, 2023. It suits players who enjoy relaxed farm and community sims.
Coromon is a monster-taming RPG in which a newly hired researcher at Lux Solis explores the Velua region, catching and battling creatures while seeking out six powerful Titans. Its fights draw on a stamina system, and difficulty can be customised to suit the player. It was developed by TRAGsoft in the Netherlands and published by indie.io, arriving on Windows and macOS in March 2022. Critics have frequently compared it to Pokemon.
Played in 2D from a side-on, scrolling view, Cortex Command is an action game that Steam also files under strategy. It comes from Swedish studio Data Realms, which has worked on it since 2001, and it launched on Steam in September 2012 for Windows and Mac. The available facts describe its format and long development rather than specific systems, so it is best seen as a side-view action title with strategic elements and a long history in development.