Crab Champions is a third-person roguelike looter shooter in which players sweep across exotic islands, pairing fluid movement with quick, aggressive combat. It grew out of Noisestorm's viral track Crab Rave, whose music video, featuring 3D animated crabs dancing, drew millions of views. Developed and published by Noisestorm, based in Ireland, it was announced in April 2019 and entered Steam Early Access on 1 April 2023.
Crab Game is a free multiplayer party game inspired by the Netflix series Squid Game. Players face off across a string of minigames, and the goal is to be the final one still standing. Its creator and publisher is Daniel Sooman, a Norwegian indie developer known online as Dani. The game launched on Steam for Windows in October 2021 after an itch.io release for Linux and macOS, with those versions reaching Steam that November.
Cradle is a first-person science-fiction adventure that explores the theme of transhumanism. Players investigate their surroundings in a desert setting, piecing together a story centred on the bond between the protagonist and a mechanical girl. It was developed by Flying Cafe for Semianimals, a studio based in Ukraine, built on the Unigine engine, and released in 2015 for Windows and Linux.
Crawl is a local multiplayer brawler set in randomly generated dungeons for up to four players or bots. One player is the hero while the others are spirits who possess traps and monsters, trying to kill the hero so they can take that role themselves. It was made by the Australian developer Powerhoof, first appearing in Steam Early Access in 2014 before its full release in April 2017.
Crayon Physics Deluxe is a puzzle game in which drawn objects obey a two-dimensional physics simulation, reacting to gravity, mass, momentum and kinetic energy. Designed by Petri Purho and released by Kloonigames of Finland in 2009, it grew out of an earlier 2007 Windows version called Crayon Physics. It includes a level editor and an online service for trading custom creations. The Deluxe edition took the grand prize at the 2008 Independent Games Festival.
Creaks is a puzzle-platformer made and self-published by Czech studio Amanita Design. Progress combines platforming with puzzle solving, and its genre listings also class it as a graphic adventure and an art game with a casual pace. Announced in October 2018, it launched through Apple Arcade in July 2020 and arrived on Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch later that same month.
Cricket Revolution is a multiplayer sports game devoted to cricket. Alongside offline and LAN modes, it is built around online matches and a community system that records detailed player statistics, plus tournaments against AI opponents. It was developed by Mindstorm Studios in Pakistan, released for Windows in 2009, and is described as the first game from a Pakistani developer to appear on Steam.
Crime O'Clock is a hidden object puzzle game in which the player takes on the role of a time traveler combing detailed hand-drawn scenes for clues. The aim is to prevent crimes before they are committed by spotting the right details. It was developed by Bad Seed, a studio in Italy, and released in 2023 for Windows and Mac. The game holds a Metacritic score of 69.
CrossCode is an action RPG from Radical Fish Games in Germany, published by Deck13. You play Lea, a mute amnesiac inside the fictional MMORPG CrossWorlds. Ranged and melee attacks are used both in combat and to crack puzzles, with elemental modes adding new powers for fights and exploration. Crowdfunded on Indiegogo and shaped by a three-year early access beta, it launched in September 2018 to generally favourable reviews.
Crow Country is a survival horror game set in 1990, in which investigator Mara Forest explores a derelict theme park while searching for its missing owner. Play revolves around exploring the grounds, cracking puzzles and fighting enemies, with a presentation modelled on 1990s PlayStation horror yet with modern aiming, movement and accessibility options. SFB Games of the United Kingdom developed and self-published it in May 2024, and it sold over 100,000 units in six months.
In Crowns and Pawns: Kingdom of Deceit, a classic point-and-click adventure, players work to unravel a mystery tied to Lithuanian history. As in the classic genre, progress comes from investigating locations and working through the puzzles the story puts in the way. It was developed by Lithuanian studio Tag of Joy and published through Headup, with a release in May 2022 on Windows, Mac and Linux. Further details of its plot are not covered by the available sources.
Released in 2021, Cruelty Squad is a tactical first-person shooter from Finnish independent studio Consumer Softproducts, run by artist Ville Kallio, and built with the Godot engine. Players are a biologically augmented assassin carrying out black operations for a corporate security firm, with stealth elements woven into missions. Its deliberately abrasive, surreal look stands out, and its themes satirise capitalism, corporations and the gig economy.
Crying Is Not Enough is a survival horror game with action-adventure play. Its story follows Jacob Helten, 35, who tries to solve the mystery of his wife vanishing after a gruesome car crash. The game came from two independent developers in Greece, Akis Olsey Mila and Konstantinos Poulis, who worked as Storyline Team and spent five years making it before its 2018 release on Steam. This remastered edition is the version found on the store today.
CryoFall is a multiplayer science-fiction survival game from AtomicTorch Studio, a Singapore-based developer, with its full Steam release arriving in April 2021 through publisher Daedalic Entertainment. Players establish a colony on an abandoned planet far in the future, staying alive while working through technology, farming, trade, industry and cybernetics. Its Steam tags span RPG, simulation and strategy alongside massively multiplayer play.
Cube World is an action role-playing game with dungeon-crawling elements, developed and published by Picroma in Germany for Windows. Designer Wolfram von Funck started work in 2011, and his wife Sarah later joined him. An alpha arrived in 2013, but updates were so rare that many wrote the project off as vaporware, until the full game finally launched on September 30, 2019. Steam lists it under adventure and RPG, and it remains a Windows release.
Cultist Simulator is a card-driven simulation from UK indie studio Weather Factory, built in Unity and released for Windows, macOS and Linux in May 2018. Set amid 1920s Lovecraftian horror, it has players move cards across a tabletop to gather followers, occult texts and tools while chasing one of several routes to immortality. Staying alive means dodging starvation, despair, madness and dangerous enemies. Reviewers liked the writing, while others criticized its pacing.
Cult of the Lamb is a roguelike that splits its time between combat and community building. As a lamb spared from execution by an imprisoned god, you raise a devoted cult and head out on crusades through dungeons to defeat four bishops, then return home for calmer stretches of managing your followers. Made in 2022 by Massive Monster, a studio from Australia, with Devolver Digital publishing, it was nominated three times at the 19th BAFTA Games Awards ceremony, Best Game among them.
Cuphead is a run-and-gun action game from Canadian studio Studio MDHR, released in 2017. One or two players guide Cuphead and his brother Mugman through a string of levels and boss battles after the pair strike a bargain with the Devil over gambling debts. New powers unlock along the way, though only a few can be equipped at once. Its hand-drawn look recalls 1930s rubber hose cartoons, backed by a big band score.
Curious Cases is a detective adventure that can be played in virtual reality or on a desktop PC. Across three chapters you step into the role of Detective Thomas Moore, a seasoned investigator known for cracking cases others could not. It was developed and self-published by OnSkull Games, a studio based in Greece, and released on Windows in April 2019. Steam categorizes it as adventure, casual and indie.
Cursed Castilla, originally titled Maldita Castilla, is an action platformer conceived as a tribute to Ghosts'n Goblins. Its world draws on Spanish myths, wider European folklore and tales of chivalry, delivered through side-scrolling action. It was developed by Locomalito in Spain, with Gryzor87 also credited, and first released in December 2012; this expanded EX edition came to Steam in October 2016 through Abylight Studios.
Dandy Ace is a roguelike action dungeon crawler about a magician trying to break out of a procedurally generated world. He fights using magic cards that trigger attacks and abilities, and pairing different cards produces different effects. Brazilian studio Mad Mimic developed it and Neowiz published it for Windows and macOS in March 2021, with console ports later that year. Critics received it positively and often compared it with Hades.
Darkest Dungeon is a roguelike RPG from Canadian studio Red Hook Studios, released on PC in 2016 after a year in early access. Players manage a roster of heroes and send them into the dungeons beneath an inherited gothic mansion, moving in real time and fighting in turn-based battles. Each hero builds up stress while exploring, and high stress can bring afflictions that hinder or occasionally strengthen them.
Darkestville Castle is a comedic point-and-click adventure in which the player takes the role of a sarcastic demon. Progress comes from solving puzzles and tricking the gullible characters around you as you try to restore mischief to the town. Argentine developer Epic Llama Games created it, and ESDigital Games released it in 2017 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Steam lists it simply as an indie adventure.
Dark Matter is a science fiction Metroidvania with survival horror elements, combining exploration of interconnected areas with tense, horror-tinged encounters. It was developed by InterWave Studios in the Netherlands and published by Iceberg Interactive. The game launched in 2013 for Windows, Mac and Linux. It stands as an independent attempt to mix the backtracking structure of the Metroidvania genre with a darker, horror-driven atmosphere.