Difficult Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated difficult games.

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Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front Graviteam Tactics: Mius-Front - tactical battalion level combat simulation. Action takes place in the summer of 1943 at Mius river and Saur-Mogila tumulus area of over 140 sq. km. Four large-scale operations for the Red Army and Wehrmacht.

Price 31.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 04 Mar 2016
Cube Destroyer Cube Destroyer is a top-down shooter with a dynamic gameplay.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Feb 2016
Control Craft 2 Control Craft 2 is a real time strategy game where you will have to act quickly against attackers who want to invade our planet! Wave after wave, your soldiers will overthrow the enemy colonies and will occupy enemy bases one after another.

Price -93% 0.38€
Rating 7.1
Release 15 Feb 2016
DarkMaus DarkMaus is an indie action RPG with challenging, skill-based combat that punishes careless play.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 Jan 2016
Starward Rogue Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

Price -90% 1.18€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Jan 2016
The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 19 Jan 2016
Sora From Orange Juice comes a shoot'em'up starring the lone enhanced human, Sora. The sequel of the high-speed shoot'em'up "Suguri", with improved game system and graphics.

Price -55% 4.02€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jan 2016
Linea, the Game The goal of the game is to survive for more than 60 seconds on each level, dodging platforms and objects, listening to bitpop soundtracks. Four levels, online-records, achievements and trading cards are waiting for you.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 04 Jan 2016
Taimumari: Definitive Edition Retro-style platform game in keeping with the best traditions of games of our childhood! Take control of the Himari, the young female wizard travelling across various ages to settle the balance in time across the whole world!

Price -70% 2.16€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Dec 2015
Gun Wings A mysterious meteorite from deep space was detected approaching the Solar System, before the meteorite is due to hit the Earth, three of the girls who had their bodies modified as weapons are sent, along with all the hopes of humanity, to destroy the meteorite and save mankind...

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Dec 2015
Bullet Heaven 2 Bullet Heaven 2 is a bullet-hell shoot-em-up inspired by games like Touhou and Jamestown. It's all about shooting every cute thing that moves, while dodging hundreds of shiny bullets per second!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Dec 2015
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -65% 17.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
hocus perspective illusion puzzle based on M.C. Escher drawings and impossible shapes

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Nov 2015
Knight Squad Knight Squad is an insane 1 to 8 players chaotic arena friendship destroyer. Take on current friends and future frenemies in any of the incredibly fun game modes, ranging from Last Man Standing to Medieval soccer. All of that using only weapons from the Middle Ages… and laser guns… and miniguns.

Price -91% 1.44€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Nov 2015
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition In this tactical combat & dungeon crawler mash-up, explore a massive dungeon, full of danger, mystery and secrets. Fight your way through hordes of enemies and powerful creatures, with your tank, healer & damage dealers party.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Nov 2015
Pink Hour Help a pink-clad office lady find a missing document so the boss doesn't get angry in this free spin-off minigame to Kero Blaster.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Oct 2015
Deathstate: Abyssal Edition Deathstate is a roguelike bullet hell adventure set in a bizarre world of dimensional exploration. Play as a number of unique characters trying to discover the fate of Professor Elinberg who opened a portal to the void. Are you ready to venture deep into the abyss?

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Oct 2015
Mushroom 11 An award-winning anti-platformer where destruction is the only way to move. Mold yourself into any form by destroying your cells, and traverse a devastated landscape filled with brain-twisting puzzles and bizarre mutations. Are you ready to break the mold?

Price -97% 0.49€
Rating 8.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!! With its own unique battle system and a wide selection of characteristic angels, the girls are appearing on Steam for the first time in [Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!]!!

Price -91% 2.75€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Sep 2015
Uncraft World Save the galaxy and its hot goddesses from eternal cubification ! Now with 50+ levels, Online play, 27 hero skins, Level Editor and Workshop integration !

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 25 Sep 2015
TowerClimb TowerClimb is a difficult and rewarding procedurally generated platformer with roguelike elements. Enormous and mysterious towers of ancient unknown origin stand above humanity, extending to the heavens. Struggle forward as a weak human, driven by an iron will to reach the top.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Sep 2015
Penarium Penarium is a frantic 2D arena arcade game where you take on the role of Willy, trapped in a sinister circus show. Run, jump and avoid an array of killer death-traps while being cheered on by a sadistic crowd that’s out for blood.

Price -95% 0.45€
Rating 7.9
Release 22 Sep 2015
Master Spy Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer brimming with espionage, intrigue, and betrayal! Featuring an Original Soundtrack by Grammy Award Winner RAC.

Price -96% 0.41€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Sep 2015
The Black Watchmen Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 Aug 2015
Flywrench Flywrench is a frenetic action game from the makers of Nidhogg about piloting an aerobatic ship through the depths of space.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.8
Release 24 Aug 2015
In Between In Between is set inside the mind of a man hit by a cruel twist of fate. Together you are on a journey through the protagonist's head, a world that doesn’t obey the laws of physics.

Price -97% 0.40€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 Aug 2015
Bob Was Hungry Bob Was Hungry is a challenging precision platformer with many levels designed to truly test your platforming skills. Play alone or online with 2-8 player co-op and make your way through countless perils to feed your bob!

Price -93% 0.70€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Aug 2015
Fingered GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!

Price 1.87€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 Aug 2015
Volume Pure stealth action and infinite level creation from the award-winning studio behind Thomas Was Alone. Enter the Volume to halt Gisborne Industries' corruption and train the masses to rob from the rich.

Price -97% 0.68€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2015
OlliOlli2: Welcome to Olliwood Drop in to Olliwood and prepare for finger-flippin’ mayhem in this follow up to cult skateboarding smash OlliOlli.

Price -93% 1.11€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Aug 2015
Duet Elegant and minimal, Duet asks players simply to navigate two orbiting spheres past an increasingly complex maze of falling obstacles. As the difficulty increases, the tension mounts, and a peculiar narrative unfolds.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Aug 2015
King of Dragon Pass Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Price -97% 0.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Jul 2015
FEIST A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Jul 2015
Super Hipster Lumberjack You can't beat this game!!! Noah attempts to make a game for the first time. He then gets trapped in his own creation.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 20 Jul 2015
Super Cyborg Super Cyborg is an old school non-stop hardcore run'n'gun action game! You are an elite battle cyborg who is sent in to investigate a series of anomalies on a mysterious island. The merciless alien known as the 'Xirxul life form' has been awakened by unwitting scientists and now: all humanity is in danger!

Price -20% 4.00€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Jul 2015
oO "oO" is a hardcore minimal arcade game.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Jul 2015

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