Hidden Difficult Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated difficult games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Difficult games on Steam.

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Will Glow the Wisp Navigate through psychadelic mazes to chill electornic beats. Imagine a mix between Super Meat Boy and Geometry Wars.

Price -70% 0.60€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2017
Pixel Gladiator Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 08 Sep 2017
Ball 2D: Soccer Online Ball 2D is an online multiplayer soccer game with 100% physics-based gameplay where you control one player.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 08 Sep 2017
Fidget Spinner Fidget Spinner, the game you were all waiting for, yes, also you who are reading, I know that in the depths of your heart, you were waiting for a game like this!

Price 0.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 06 Sep 2017
Find You Play every character simultaneously and reunite them in mind boggling 100 levels

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Sep 2017
MagiCat MagiCat is a side-scrolling platformer inspired by the retro games from 16-bit era. The game features a cute magical cat adventuring 63 levels, each with their own unique boss battle spread across 7 worlds.

Price -93% 0.39€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Aug 2017
Head Goal: Soccer Online Play with your friends an online multiplayer soccer game with 100% physics-based gameplay where you control one player.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Aug 2017
Arcade Mayhem Juanito Arcade Mayhem Juanito is a retro experience about arcade-hopping. Teleport into different video games, play with unique mechanics inspired by well-known arcade games, face stunningly animated bosses and join the fight against the clonocell invasion.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Aug 2017
Fidel Dungeon Rescue A critically acclaimed roguelite where you can REWIND to find the optimal path through monsters, treasure and secrets. Quick to play. No grinding. No filler. Deep gameplay.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.7
Release 01 Aug 2017
GravNewton Challenge all your skill and quick thinking ability in this precision platform game, where you are a bitrom who controller over gravity called Newton, who is trying to escape from a deformed creature that relentlessly follows him in subspace.

Price -44% 0.56€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Jul 2017
Lawnmower Game Drive and cut grass first time in simulator game, with amazing lanwmower in big open world

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jul 2017
Flow:The Sliding Enjoy the rhythmic music and beat the SCORE!!!

Price -91% 0.39€
Rating 7.2
Release 16 Jul 2017
Downward: Enhanced Edition Downward is a first-person open-world parkour based platform adventure set in the medieval ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet Earth. Make your way through breath-taking landscapes, face ancient guardians and unravel the deep mystery that lies behind the disappearance of humanity.

Price 9.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 13 Jul 2017
qop qop is a minimalistic puzzle which goal is to get the cube to finish using 4 directions in space.

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Jul 2017
Brigand: Oaxaca Brigand: Oaxaca is a highly difficult post-apocalyptic RPG/FPS set in Mexico. Emphasis is on challenge, a branching story with multiple endings, and total freedom of action (kill friendly characters, rob stores, jump across roofs, etc.).

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Jul 2017
Wild Guns Reloaded Wild Guns Reloaded is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter, mixing the Wild West with steampunk. Play as Clint, Annie, Doris, or Bullet the dog with his sentry drone. Grab some friends and play together for some four player action!

Price 12.49€
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jul 2017
1982 1982 is a FREE retro inspired blasta-thon that will test your gaming skills to the max.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Jun 2017
Cart Racer Get a new gaming experience as a racer in a shopping cart! Play for the brutal and steep Cart Racer. Overcome obstacles in the city, in the sea, in the ancient castle and the snowy mountains!

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 7.5
Release 05 Jun 2017
Tormentor❌Punisher Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you. Perform combos on enemies and gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Let's do this!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.

Price -85% 0.74€
Rating 7.4
Release 29 May 2017
OVIVO OVIVO is a minimalistic platformer with unusual mechanics where everything is as simple as black and white. The journey in this metaphoric world is filled with illusions and hidden messages.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 May 2017
ATOMINE Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

Price -90% 0.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2017
Flinthook Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

Price -16% 12.60€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2017
Asura: Vengeance Edition Asura is an Action Rogue-like set in a fantasy world inspired by the richness of Indian mythology. It features a unique procedural skill tree which changes on every play-through.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Apr 2017