Best Difficult Steam Games on Sale

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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Hello Neighbor Hello Neighbor is a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.

Price -89% 3.24€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Dec 2017
Opus Magnum Opus Magnum is the latest open-ended puzzle game from Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem, Infinifactory, and SHENZHEN I/O. Design and build machines that assemble potions, poisons, and more using the alchemical engineer’s most advanced tool: the transmutation engine!

Price -40% 11.86€
Rating 9.4
Release 07 Dec 2017
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.

Price -30% 4.96€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Dec 2017
Injustice™ 2 Build and power up the ultimate version of your favourite DC legends in INJUSTICE 2. This is your Legend. Your Journey. Your Injustice.

Price -98% 2.21€
Rating 8.5
Release 30 Nov 2017
Sorry, James JAMES_GARNER zEiaQe@z1l3

Price -96% 0.33€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Nov 2017
Gladiator School Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

Price -31% 3.49€
Rating 6.8
Release 09 Nov 2017
Starblast Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.

Price -70% 3.08€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Nov 2017
Card Quest Card Quest is a dungeon crawling adventure game with unique card combat. Play with a variety of unique character classes, and customize decks to fit your playstyle. Explore the strategic depth of tactical roguelike gameplay, and crush the undead plague.

Price -43% 4.74€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Nov 2017
Nioh: Complete Edition Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.

Price -89% 5.88€
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Nov 2017
The Mummy Demastered A powerful ancient evil has arisen, and the war to save humanity has begun! As an elite agent in the monster-hunting Prodigium organization, you must use a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mysterious artifacts to defend mankind against the supernatural hordes of Princess Ahmanet.

Price -91% 1.96€
Rating 7.3
Release 24 Oct 2017
Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition Blackout Z' is a super fast top-down view shooter where you face ZOMBIES, SAWS and the DARK. Do you have what it takes to have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse with only your gun and an old flashlight?

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Oct 2017
Bomber Crew Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!

Price -92% 1.38€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Oct 2017
Warbanners Warbanners: the turn-based, tactical strategy game with role-playing elements that lets you manage a squad of mercenaries, and survive 42 campaign missions. Your goal? To earn a place among ancient legends!

Price -38% 12.47€
Rating 6.8
Release 18 Oct 2017
ELEX ELEX is a handcrafted action role-playing experience from the award-winning creators of the Gothic series, set in a brand new post-apocalyptic Science Fantasy universe that puts players into a huge seamless game world full of original characters, mutated creatures, deep moral choices and powerful action.

Price -93% 2.21€
Rating 7.3
Release 17 Oct 2017
Overgrowth Feel like the star of a martial arts film in Overgrowth, as you jump, kick, throw, and slash your way to victory. Free the rabbits from their evil overlords in the main story, then play through the prequel story, and finally, try out nine years of mods developed by the community, or create your own!

Price -72% 5.55€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 Oct 2017
Diamo XL Diamo XL is a fast-paced, addictive, and challenging arcade score chaser. Dodge obstacles, rack up high scores, and master precise movement. Easy to learn but tough to master, it's perfect for quick sessions or leaderboard dominance. Play while waiting in queue or push for endless high-score glory!

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 13 Oct 2017
Gold Mining Simulator Become a gold miner. Work hard, dig deep, explore the world, and you’ll become the wealthiest person in Alaska. Use a variety of specialist machines to find as much gold as you can.

Price -76% 4.80€
Rating 7.1
Release 13 Oct 2017
Computer Tycoon Computer Tycoon is a fairly complex Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s, invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure, lead a team, and alter computer history! It is time to "Think Different"

Price -17% 13.97€
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Oct 2017
Cuphead Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.

Price -43% 11.56€
Rating 9.5
Release 29 Sep 2017
RUINER RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.

Price -90% 2.05€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 Sep 2017
Fight'N Rage Fight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay features that makes this genre one of the best from its time!

Price -95% 1.04€
Rating 8.8
Release 19 Sep 2017
ECHO After a century in stasis the girl En arrives at her destination: A Palace out of legend. Out here, using forgotten technologies, she hopes to bring back a life that shouldn’t have been lost. But nothing could prepare her for what she’ll face in the ancient halls below.

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 7.4
Release 19 Sep 2017
Will Glow the Wisp Navigate through psychadelic mazes to chill electornic beats. Imagine a mix between Super Meat Boy and Geometry Wars.

Price -79% 0.42€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Sep 2017
HIVESWAP: ACT 1 A hand-drawn tribute to hilarious '90s adventure games (with none of the accompanying frustration). Play as Joey Claire, a puzzle-solving teen snatched out of her time (1994) and place (Earth) and stranded on a hostile alien planet on the brink of rebellion.

Price -86% 0.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 14 Sep 2017
Cook, Serve, Delicious! 2!! The massive sequel to the original cult classic! Plan your menu, decorate your restaurant, cook hundreds of foods, and for the first time ever - earn medals by mastering dozens of themed restaurants!

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Sep 2017
X-Morph: Defense Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.8
Release 30 Aug 2017
Absolver Absolver is an online multiplayer combat game where players are placed behind the mask of a Prospect under control of the Guides, the new rulers of the fallen Adal Empire, who will determine your worth in joining their elite corps of Absolvers.

Price -97% 0.96€
Rating 7.1
Release 29 Aug 2017
Polygoneer Test your reflexes in POLYGONEER, defend yourself from prolygonal shapes taht comes from everywhere, just hitting is not enough you need to match the right color shot to the polygon too! Are you ready for the challenge?

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Aug 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 -92% 0.44€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Aug 2017
The Escapists 2 Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?

Price -97% 0.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 21 Aug 2017
20XX 20XX is a roguelike action platformer that you can play with a friend. Jump and shoot your way through ever-changing levels, collect awesome new powers, and battle mighty bosses in the name of saving the human race maybe!

Price -65% 5.32€
Rating 8.8
Release 16 Aug 2017
Sine Mora EX Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.

Price -87% 1.38€
Rating 6.3
Release 08 Aug 2017
Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 The Blue Bomber is back in this second collection of classic Capcom titles! Featuring faithful reproductions of Mega Man 7, 8, 9, & 10, this collection is bursting with additional content, from time trials and remix challenges to a music player and an extensive gallery of rare illustrations.

Price -81% 3.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Aug 2017
The Shrouded Isle Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Price -93% 1.04€
Rating 6.8
Release 04 Aug 2017
The Long Dark THE LONG DARK is a thoughtful, exploration-survival experience that challenges solo players to think for themselves as they explore an expansive frozen wilderness in the aftermath of a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies -- only you, the cold, and all the threats Mother Nature can muster.

Price -28% 12.31€
Rating 8.9
Release 01 Aug 2017
Sundered®: Eldritch Edition Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Price -85% 3.06€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Jul 2017

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