Best Difficult games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our difficult game recommendations are based on a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews. We believe that player feedback is the most reliable indicator of a game's true quality and enjoyment. Our algorithm evaluates user reviews to identify difficult games that consistently deliver exceptional experiences. This means you can be confident that our lists feature only the best difficult games on Steam, validated by the community itself.

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Super Jigsaw Puzzle: Generations

If you like to make puzzles, Super Jigsaw Puzzle is your game. Enjoy its comfortable and intuitive interface and its relaxing music that will allow you to concentrate on the difficult task of solving these beautiful photos that pose a real challenge for lovers of puzzles.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.0
Release 04 Apr 2019

Xenon Racer

It’s the year 2030, the era of flying vehicles. A one-off championship for wheel based vehicles has been organised, with cutting-edge electric cars boosted by Xenon gas. Drift through cities like Tokyo and Dubai as fast as you can and claim eternal glory!

Price -90% 1.47€
Rating 6.4
Release 26 Mar 2019

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

Game of the Year - The Game Awards 2019 Best Action Game of 2019 - IGN Carve your own clever path to vengeance in the award winning adventure from developer FromSoftware, creators of Bloodborne and the Dark Souls series. Take Revenge. Restore Your Honor. Kill Ingeniously.

Price 59.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Mar 2019

Skirmish Line

Experience the brutality and randomness of war as an Allied tactical commander in the Pacific Theater during World War 2. Train, equip, and command a squad of soldiers as you fight against the fanatical Imperial Japanese Empire.

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Mar 2019

TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part II

Touhou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival part II is a danmaku shooting game, which is the second part of Touhou Makuka Sai. The repeat of incident is coming again. Can the girls going to the netherworld solve the mystery?

Price 10.79€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Mar 2019

Baba Is You

Baba Is You is a puzzle game where the rules you have to follow are present as blocks you can interact with. By manipulating them, you can change how the game works, repurpose things you find in the levels and cause surprising interactions!

Price -26% 9.28€
Rating 9.6
Release 13 Mar 2019

Lofi Ping Pong

Meditative rhythm ping-pong

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Mar 2019

Devil May Cry 5

The ultimate Devil Hunter is back in style, in the game action fans have been waiting for.

Price -75% 7.49€
Rating 9.5
Release 07 Mar 2019

I hate this game

I hate this game is a logic game, where gameplay changes every level. Solve crazy puzzles and use forgotten functions of your PC! Be attentive, interact with everything that you see on the screen.

Price 1.60€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Mar 2019

1 Screen Platformer

This is a SHORT, 2D PLATFORMER with TIGHT CONTROLS about exploring a single level to get past a bunch of TRAPS. There is an EASY mode and a HARD mode depending on your skill level.

Price 2.39€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Mar 2019

Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends

Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.

Price 6.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Feb 2019

APE OUT

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Price -86% 2.08€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Feb 2019

CASE 2: Animatronics Survival

CASE 2: Animatronics Survival is a horror game that is available in two modes. Online mode lets one or more players take on the role of animatronics, ready to crush everyone and everything. The other three are survivors. How did this happen? You’ll have to find out!

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.9
Release 28 Feb 2019

Flashback

FLASHBACK™, the hit action-adventure game with over 2.2 million units sold, is back!

Price -84% 1.56€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Feb 2019

Trials® Rising

Explore over-the-top action and physics-bending motorcycle racing in the latest opus of the Trials franchise. With new tracks in exotic places all over the world and more ways to compete, Trials® Rising is the best one yet.

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 26 Feb 2019

DiRT Rally 2.0

DiRT Rally 2.0 dares you to carve your way through a selection of iconic rally locations from across the globe, in the most powerful off-road vehicles ever made, knowing that the smallest mistake could end your stage.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Feb 2019

Touhou Luna Nights

Touhou Luna Nights is a Metroidvania title with a heavy emphasis on exploration and action.  Developed by Team Ladybug, creators of multiple fantastic action games thus far.

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 25 Feb 2019

Almost There: The Platformer

Sprint between saw blades while dodging homing missiles. Duck under lasers while the floor crumbles beneath you. Almost There was designed specifically for fans of the hardcore platforming genre - you've been warned.

Price -90% 0.81€
Rating 6.3
Release 19 Feb 2019

The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

Dodge bullets while typing exorcisms at the very same time: Get ready for an electrifying mix between bullet hell and typing game! Turn on both sides of your brain and jump into the adventure of private exorcist Ray Bibbia!

Price -91% 1.28€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Feb 2019

Degrees of Separation

Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.

Price -90% 1.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Feb 2019

Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs

Join Red, Chuck, Bomb & the Blues to save the stolen eggs in Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, an immersive VR adventure! Discover the island where the greedy pigs vacation, slingshot your way to defeat Dr. Frankenswine & create/share/discover an infinite number of levels with the online level builder.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Feb 2019

Bloody Trapland 2: Curiosity

Take on the hard yet fair world of Bloody Trapland. Jump, slide, dash and dodge your way through the many deadly levels. Find secrets, solve puzzles, unlock mysteries and unravel the story. Go at it alone or bring your friends along for a co-op experience like no other. 1-4 players online and/or splitscreen.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Feb 2019

Robothorium

Robothorium is a cyberpunk dungeon crawler with turn-based fights, where all your choices will have a direct impact on your revolution against Humankind. Deep Strategy, Crafting, Party Based management, Talents and so much more in this roguelike!

Price -80% 2.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 31 Jan 2019

Lovecraft's Untold Stories

Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.

Price -88% 1.73€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 Jan 2019

Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG

Explore randomly generated content and experience the thrill of a classic tactical turn-based rogue-like RPG! Choose from a diverse cast of characters, each with their own unique abilities and strengths. Get ready for an unforgettable journey of strategy, skill, and discovery.

Price -65% 5.17€
Rating 8.0
Release 25 Jan 2019

King Rabbit - Puzzle

Part puzzler, platformer, level builder. Navigate your fluffy rabbit through an ever-expanding universe of realms. Find the 3 portal gems in each realm to unlock the next realm. Enjoy endless community levels and create your own with the level builder!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Jan 2019

A Dance of Fire and Ice

A Dance of Fire and Ice is a strict rhythm game. Keep your focus as you guide two orbiting planets along a winding path without breaking their perfect equilibrium.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 24 Jan 2019

Resident Evil 2

A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh eating zombies roam the streets for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

Price 39.99€
Rating 9.6
Release 24 Jan 2019

Slay the Spire

We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

Price 22.99€
Rating 9.7
Release 23 Jan 2019

The Hong Kong Massacre

Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.

Price -93% 1.34€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Jan 2019

DESOLATE

DESOLATE is a first person horror survival experience. Form a research team with up to 4 players and explore an open world filled with mysteries and unsolved questions, or do it all on your own.

Price 14.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 17 Jan 2019

Onimusha: Warlords

Capcom’s riveting samurai adventure returns! This version includes the original game’s intense swordplay and dramatic revenge story, plus improved controls, widescreen display, a new soundtrack, and more. Experience this enhanced version of the best-selling action-adventure classic!

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Jan 2019

Catherine Classic

Catherine: a tale of love, betrayal, and the terror of commitment. Experience the mature action-adventure-puzzle game unlike any other from the makers of the Persona series, now enhanced for PC in all its Classic glory. Is love over? Climb to the top or die trying.

Price -73% 5.46€
Rating 8.5
Release 10 Jan 2019

Boxing School

BOXING SCHOOL! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. Management game made by the developers of Gladiator School.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 10 Jan 2019

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED]

The Eternal Castle [REMASTERED] is a remake of the original "ETERNAL CASTLE" from 1987, with additional game mechanics, sophisticated sound design, polished 2-bit CGA animated graphics, and modernized game design.

Price 5.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Jan 2019

03.04

04/03/2017How much does this date tell you? For the main character, it became very significant, because this is the day of his death. The protagonist was precisely in the train that arrived at the metro station "Technological Institute" with the bodies of innocent, already dead, people ...

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 01 Jan 2019

Crash Wheels

Arcade racing with the physics of damage

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Dec 2018

Bloons TD 6

The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.6
Release 17 Dec 2018

BELOW

BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

Price 21.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Dec 2018

Insurgency: Sandstorm

Insurgency: Sandstorm is a team-based, tactical FPS based on lethal close quarters combat and objective-oriented multiplayer gameplay. Experience the intensity of modern combat where skill is rewarded, and teamwork wins the fight.

Price -66% 10.31€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2018

Reignfall

Reignfall is a real-time strategy game with elements of city-building and third-person action. Build a city and defend your keep against waves of increasingly difficult enemies. Can you survive against the fallen horde?

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 Dec 2018

Katamari Damacy REROLL

The beloved roll-em-up game returns with fully updated graphics, completely recreated cutscenes and in full HD!

Price -84% 3.22€
Rating 9.0
Release 06 Dec 2018

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden

A tactical game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with story, exploration, stealth, and strategy. Take control of a team of Mutants navigating a post-human Earth. Created by a team including former HITMAN leads and the designer of PAYDAY.

Price 34.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2018

MUSYNX

Indie rhythm game MUSYNX now on STEAM! Real "KEY" Sound System, Classic Gameplay, Unique Visual Themes and Constant Music Updates! MUSYNX is waiting for you!

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Dec 2018

Darksiders III

Return to an apocalyptic Earth in Darksiders III, a hack-n-slash Action Adventure where players assume the role of FURY in her quest to hunt down and dispose of the Seven Deadly Sins. The most enigmatic of the Four Horsemen, FURY must bring balance to the forces that now ravage Earth.

Price -87% 5.36€
Rating 7.5
Release 27 Nov 2018

Granny

You have to escape Granny`s house...You have five days...

Price 3.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Nov 2018

Zup! S

Minimal physical puzzle with explosions

Price 1.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 15 Nov 2018

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

MECHANICUS II ANNOUNCED! Take control of one of the most technologically advanced factions in the Imperium: the Adeptus Mechanicus. In this turn-based tactical game, your every decision will weigh heavily on the outcome of the conflict. Will you be blessed by the Omnissiah?

Price -79% 5.98€
Rating 8.9
Release 15 Nov 2018