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City of Heroes
City of Heroes: superhero MMORPG by Cryptic Studios and NCsoft, launched April 28, 2004 in Paragon City; 180,000 first-year subscribers; closed November 2012; revived by licensed Homecoming server since 2024.
Civilization (video game)
Sid Meier's Civilization is a turn-based 4X strategy series begun by MicroProse in 1991, designed by Sid Meier and Bruce Shelley, in which players grow a civilization from 4000 BC to modern victory paths; it spawned the 4X genre and remains the bestselling strategy franchise.
Civilization VII
Sid Meier's Civilization VII (Civ 7) is Firaxis/2K's 2025 turn-based 4X strategy game, released February 11, 2025, known for its three-Age system with civilization switching and its mixed launch reception.
Civilization: Beyond Earth
Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth is a 2014 Firaxis 4X turn-based strategy game for Windows, Mac, and Linux, built on the Civilization V engine, with a tech web, Harmony/Purity/Supremacy Affinities, and the Rising Tide expansion.
Civilization: Call to Power
Civilization: Call to Power (CTP1), Activision's 1999 turn-based 4X strategy game under Hasbro license, a Civilization II successor with slavery mechanics, sea and space cities, timeline to 3000 AD, and sequel Call to Power II.
Clash Royale
Clash Royale (Clash Royale) is Supercell's free-to-play real-time mobile card-battle game, launched globally in 2016, where players use elixir to deploy Clash of Clans-style troop, spell, and defense cards and destroy enemy towers in 1v1 and 2v2 duels.
Clementine (The Walking Dead)
Clementine (The Walking Dead) is Telltale Games' central protagonist, an eight-year-old in Season One voiced by Melissa Hutchison, later playable in Season Two and The Final Season, continued in canon Skybound comics.
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival
Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival is a single-player first-person survival horror game by Saber Interactive and Mad Head Games, released October 8, 2026 on PS5, Steam, and Xbox Series X|S, the first Hellraiser video game, starring Aidan Lynch, Pinhead (Doug Bradley), and the Genesis Configuration.
Clockwork Knight (クロックワークナイト)
Clockwork Knight (クロックワークナイト) is a 2.5D side-scrolling platformer by Team Aquila/Sega and a 1994–95 Sega Saturn launch title starring toy knight Pepper rescuing Princess Chelsea, with prerendered CG sprites, 13 levels, and a sequel, Clockwork Knight 2.
Clockwork Revolution
Clockwork Revolution is an upcoming 2027 first-person steampunk action RPG by inXile Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios, set in Avalon, with time-travel world rewriting, Lady Ironwood as antagonist, and Xbox console exclusivity.
CloverPit
CloverPit is a 2025 roguelite by Panik Arcade and Future Friends Games in which the player spins a demonic slot machine in a cell to pay ever-growing debt deadlines, using charms and tickets; sold 1 million copies.
Clutch (video game)
Clutch is a single-player combat racing game for PC released in 2009 by Russian studio Targem Games, set in a zombie-filled city abandoned after an LHC catastrophe.
Code Vein II
Code Vein II (CODE VEIN II) is Bandai Namco Studios' action RPG sequel to Code Vein, released January 29-30, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam; a Revenant Hunter time-travels with Lou to prevent the Resurgence.
Code Violet
Code Violet is a third-person action horror game by TeamKill Media, released January 10, 2026 as a PS5 exclusive. Marketed as a Dino Crisis spiritual successor, it follows Violet Sinclair on Trappist 1-E and scored 29 on Metacritic.
Coin Master
Coin Master (Moon Active, 2015) is a free-to-play mobile slot-machine and village-building game; over $6 billion gross revenue and 356 million downloads by August 2024, rated 18+ by Apple and Teen by Google Play.
Colossal Cave Adventure
Colossal Cave Adventure (aka Adventure, ADVENT), text adventure by Will Crowther (1976, FORTRAN, PDP-10, BBN) expanded by Don Woods (June 3, 1977, Stanford AI Lab, 350-point version); based on Kentucky's Mammoth Cave, inspired Zork, Sierra, and the adventure genre; Hall of Fame 2019.
Comic Party (こみっくパーティー)
Comic Party (こみっくパーティー) is a 1999 Leaf doujinshi-making visual novel for Windows, ported to Dreamcast (2001) and PSP (2005) by Aqua Plus, with a 2001 anime; Japan-only, no Western release.
Comix Zone
Comix Zone: 1995 Sega Genesis beat 'em up by Sega Technical Institute (Peter Morawiec) where cartoonist Sketch Turner fights villain Mortus inside his own comic; panel traversal, page-ripping moves, two endings, cult classic.
Commandos: Origins
Commandos: Origins is a 2025 real-time tactics stealth game by Claymore Game Studios and Kalypso Media, a WWII prequel to the 1998 Commandos series with six commando classes, 14 missions, 2-player co-op, and a Metacritic score of 71.
Computer Space
Computer Space is a space combat arcade game by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney, released by Nutting Associates in 1971 and accepted as the first commercially sold coin-operated video game; it led to Atari's founding.
Conan Exiles
Conan Exiles is Funcom's open-world survival game set in the Conan the Barbarian universe; released fully May 8, 2018 after 15 months in Early Access, known for thralls, base building, Isle of Siptah, and the 2026 Unreal Engine 5 Enhanced edition.
Concord (video game)
Concord was a 5v5 hero shooter by Firewalk Studios, published by Sony for PS5 and PC, launched August 2024 at $40, taken offline September 6, 2024 after ~25,000 reported sales; Firewalk closed October 29, 2024.
Conker: Live & Reloaded
Conker: Live & Reloaded is Rare's 2005 Xbox remake of Conker's Bad Fur Day, published by Microsoft Game Studios, with redone graphics, animation, and music, added censorship, and a new six-specialist Xbox Live multiplayer replacing the N64 modes; Metacritic 78.
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Conker's Bad Fur Day (N64, 2001) is Rare's M-rated action-platformer starring a hungover squirrel, retooled from the cutesy Twelve Tales: Conker 64; Metacritic 92, poor sales, cult classic, Xbox remake Live & Reloaded (2005).
Conker's Pocket Tales
Conker's Pocket Tales is a 1999 Game Boy Color action-puzzle game by Rare, starring Conker the squirrel rescuing Berri and his presents from the Evil Acorn; his first solo game, with two cartridge versions for Game Boy and Game Boy Color.
Conscript (video game)
Conscript (CONSCRIPT) is a 2024 top-down pixel-art survival horror game by solo developer Jordan Mochi (Catchweight Studio), published by Team17, set at the Battle of Verdun, 1916; a French soldier searches for his missing brother.
Consume Me
Consume Me: 2025 indie life-sim RPG by Hexecutable (Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson). Semi-autobiographical high-school story about dieting and disordered eating; won IGF 2025 Seumas McNally Grand Prize and a 2026 Apple Design Award.
Content Warning
Content Warning is a 2024 Landfall co-op horror game on Steam where 2-4 players film monsters in the Old World to go viral on SpöökTube. Free for 24 hours on April 1, 2024, it hit 204,439 peak concurrent players, 6.2 million claims, and 1 million paid sales at $7.99.
Contra (video game)
Contra (魂斗羅 コントラ; Gryzor in Europe) is Konami's 1987 run-and-gun arcade game, ported to NES in 1988 as an expanded eight-stage version; known for one-hit deaths, the Spread Gun, co-op play, and the 30-lives Konami Code.
Contra: Rogue Corps
Contra: Rogue Corps is Konami's 2019 twin-stick third-person Contra spin-off for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC, set in the Damned City, directed by Nobuya Nakazato, with four eccentric characters, loot-driven weapon crafting, and Metacritic 52.