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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Wild Animal Racing Wild Animal Racing is an exciting go-kart simulation game with a twist. Play as an elephant, a lion, a zebra, a giraffe, a rhino or a hippo! Play against the other animals or against a friend on the same PC with the split-screen mode! Or invite Steam friends in the multiplayer mode!

Price -25% 2.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Mar 2016
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

Price -89% 1.18€
Rating 9.1
Release 04 Mar 2016
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend 'BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend' is the sixth installment of the BlazBlue series, a combination of 2D fighting action game and visual novel.

Price -97% 0.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Mar 2016
SUPERHOT SUPERHOT is the smash-hit FPS where time moves only when you move. No regenerating health bars. No conveniently placed ammo drops. It's you, alone, outnumbered and outgunned. Snatch weapons from fallen enemies to shoot, slice and dodge through a truly cinematic hurricane of slow-motion bullets.

Price -97% 0.82€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2016
The Flame in the Flood A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Price -96% 0.68€
Rating 7.4
Release 24 Feb 2016
Devil Daggers Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Price -67% 2.67€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 Feb 2016
Plague Inc: Evolved Plague Inc: Evolved is a unique mix of high strategy and terrifyingly realistic simulation. Your pathogen has just infected 'Patient Zero' - now you must bring about the end of human history by evolving a deadly, global Plague whilst adapting against everything humanity can do to defend itself.

Price -61% 5.80€
Rating 9.3
Release 18 Feb 2016
UBERMOSH:BLACK UBERMOSH:BLACK is the second volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH. Cut bullets with your sword, shoot with heavy guns and splatter enemies with a rage fueled psionic wave.

Price -38% 0.62€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Feb 2016
Dub Dash Dub Dash is a fast-paced rhythm based action game including music from Bossfight and the DJs of Geometry Dash. Spin your crazy wheel in harmony with the song and keep dodging left and right avoiding obstacles at high speed. Do you rock the funky roads of Dub Dash?

Price -88% 0.62€
Rating 6.7
Release 16 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
Rabi-Ribi Dodge bullets, missiles and lasers in battle as you wrap your head around that bunny girl costume! Combo away with your mighty Piko Hammer or spam various spells from afar with your fiery fairy friend. Explore and explode through Rabi-Rabi Island as you collect power-ups and uncover secrets...

Price -96% 0.81€
Rating 9.3
Release 28 Jan 2016
The Witness You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.

Price -94% 2.43€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 Jan 2016
Bit Blaster XL Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!

Price -46% 0.54€
Rating 9.3
Release 22 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 -91% 1.14€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Jan 2016
The Bug Butcher A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.

Price -49% 4.14€
Rating 8.6
Release 19 Jan 2016
Resident Evil 0 Before the mansion, before the destruction of Raccoon City, there was Resident Evil 0. Now remastered with improved visuals and sounds, as well as the all-new Wesker Mode, there's never been a better time to experience the origins of the Resident Evil story.

Price -67% 6.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Jan 2016
Darkest Dungeon® Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?

Price -96% 0.96€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Jan 2016
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Set in a huge open world, Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen presents a rewarding action combat experience.

Price -93% 2.36€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jan 2016
Tharsis Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.

Price -93% 1.14€
Rating 6.8
Release 11 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
UnderRail UnderRail is an old-school turn-based isometric role-playing game that features a large open post-apocalyptic world, deep and challenging combat and an intricate storyline.

Price -80% 2.96€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Dec 2015
Bubsy Two-Fur Bubsy returns in the first authorized digital release of his first two games! What could paws-ibly go wrong?

Price -80% 4.19€
Rating 6.8
Release 17 Dec 2015
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
Emily Wants To Play It’s 11pm and the last house on your route. The windows are boarded up, the yard is overgrown, but the lights are on and the front door is open… strange place to deliver a pizza. You’re getting soaked from the rain, so you hesitantly step inside the house. You shouldn’t have done that.

Price -31% 3.48€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Dec 2015
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Price -95% 1.00€
Rating 8.9
Release 07 Dec 2015
Nuclear Throne Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Price -95% 0.68€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Dec 2015
Nyan Cat: Lost In Space Play with the most celebrated flying cat in human history. Drink milk, eat ice-cream, collect coins, buy gorgeous boosts, fly like a superhero (sorry... supercat), jump onto platforms made of cake, avoid angry dogs, and discover the infinite space.

Price -50% 1.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 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
12 is Better Than 6 12 is Better Than 6 is a dynamic top-down shooter with stealth elements, presented in a Wild West theme. The story puts you in the shoes of escaped slave fleeing to the United States in 1873.

Price -97% 0.24€
Rating 8.1
Release 20 Nov 2015
ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 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% 1.37€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Nov 2015
The Purring Quest Have you ever wanted to be a cat? You will be able, thanks to the aventure platformer The Purring Quest. Take on the role of Kimchi the cat and meet famous cat of the internet in a journey full of humor.

Price -96% 0.46€
Rating 7.9
Release 12 Nov 2015
Mushihimesama Battle huge "Koju" bugs in CAVE's beautiful fantasy shooter, Mushihimesama. Experience the thrill of bullet hell from the masters of the genre as you evade visually stunning shot patterns with thousands of bullets.

Price -50% 9.75€
Rating 9.2
Release 12 Nov 2015
Kero Blaster C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.

Price -95% 0.59€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Nov 2015
Turbo Pug It's time to unleash your inner pug! Turbo Pug is a casual runner with difficult, random, procedurally generated levels. Enjoy random weather and try to avoid getting zapped by lightning. Unlock new costumes for your pug and new characters to play as. Please try not to squish your pug!

Price -55% 0.91€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Nov 2015
Mini Metro Mini Metro is a strategy simulation game about designing a subway map for a growing city. Draw lines between stations and start your trains running. As new stations open, redraw your lines to keep them efficient. Decide where to use your limited resources. How long can you keep the city moving?

Price -63% 3.07€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Nov 2015

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