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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You Have 10 Seconds 2 You Have 10 Seconds 2 is the sequel to the popular Free to Play game "You Have 10 Seconds". You have 10 seconds to get from the start of each level to the end before time runs out and without dying.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Aug 2016
Okhlos: Omega Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Price -96% 0.62€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh is an Immersive Horror Adventure, featuring a Complex Story and Deep Atmosphere.

Price -97% 0.76€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Aug 2016
Spikit Spikit is a bullet hell game developed by a single developer, Igor Petrović. With a soundtrack composed by Dario Malešević. In this game, the player will have to dodge a constant barrage of spikes coming from the side of the screen.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 Aug 2016
Road to Ballhalla Roll and be trolled on your journey to the legendary place called Ballhalla. Follow the beat to overcome deadly hazards in sync with the music. Style your balls and marble at awful puns in the roll playing game of the year!

Price -98% 0.35€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Aug 2016
Grand Pigeon's Duty Pigeons organized resistance, which aims to attract people's attention to the problem of hunger and restore bakery companies for their bait.

Price 3.33€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Aug 2016
Near Death Stranded at an abandoned Antarctic research base with no hope of rescue, you must battle a deadly blizzard in a desperate fight to find your way home.

Price -36% 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Aug 2016
Bad Rats Show Bad Rats Show is a physics puzzle game where the rats exact their bloody revenge against their main enemies: the Cats. Solve puzzles in 2D and 3D maps using physics, objects and specially trained Rats. All new Rats and Cats, but with the same classic and questionable Bad Rats humor.

Price -75% 0.51€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Jul 2016
The Eyes of Ara Explore a vast, mysterious castle riddled with secret rooms and challenging puzzles in this award-winning puzzle adventure.

Price -70% 3.84€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jul 2016
Gravity Cat Gravity Cat - it's a puzzle-platformer. You play as a cat who has an ability to change the gravity.

Price -46% 1.09€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Jul 2016
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late Dramatic Stylish 2D Fighting Action 「UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late」 now on Steam!

Price -90% 2.88€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Jul 2016
Zombie Party Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!

Price -91% 0.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jun 2016
TurnOn "TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.

Price -97% 0.58€
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Jun 2016
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity Discover the secrets of the estate, as you look for answers among the violent inhabitants. A strange and repelling madness took hold of the servants roaming the halls, and they will attack on sight, for their madness is one rooted in a deeper understanding of cosmic insignificance.

Price -76% 2.42€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
Dungeon Escape Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Price -92% 0.35€
Rating 7.6
Release 27 May 2016
OmniBus OmniBus is next-to-last gen physics game about the most powerful bus in the universe that can’t stop or even slow down for reasons incomprehensible to the simple human mind.

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 26 May 2016
Simutrans Simutrans is a freeware and open-source transportation simulator. Your goal is to establish a successful transport company. Transport passengers, mail and goods by rail, road, ship, and even air. Interconnect districts, cities, public buildings, industries and tourist attractions.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 24 May 2016
ORCS ORCS is an action/platformer 2D old school inspirated by classic like Castlevania and Ghosts 'n Goblins.

Price -76% 0.49€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 May 2016
Goetia Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Apr 2016
NO THING The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.

Price -32% 2.72€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Apr 2016
GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE- The ultimate melee action [GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-] is now on Steam!! Pushing [Gameplay] and [Entertainment] to the extremes, with a splash of [Competitiveness] -- That's GUILTY GEAR 2 for you.

Price -92% 1.66€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 Mar 2016
Leap of Fate Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?

Price -95% 0.83€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2016
Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!

Price -87% 0.67€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Mar 2016
FORCED SHOWDOWN Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.

Price -97% 0.65€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Mar 2016