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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Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game You've just unearthed the classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game that revitalized the entire CRPG genre. The Fallout® SPECIAL system allows drastically different types of characters, meaningful decisions and development that puts you in complete control. Explore the devastated ruins of a golden age civilization.

Price -92% 0.87€
Rating 9.2
Release 01 Nov 2015
Pathologic Classic HD Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped.

Price -94% 0.87€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Oct 2015
GALAK-Z Brand New features!! The Void DLC offers endless gameplay, Online Leaderboards, and a Daily Challenge that allows players to compete worldwide for the top score. Anime inspired 2D space combat simulation at its best! GALAK-Z is a modern, A.I.

Price -98% 0.47€
Rating 7.0
Release 29 Oct 2015
Toby: The Secret Mine A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

Price -85% 1.39€
Rating 6.8
Release 20 Oct 2015
FreeCell Quest FreeCell Quest is an RPG Free Cell game. You've never played Free Cell like this before! Explore 533 cities while collecting cards, gold, levels, armor, and spells on your epic quest of card sorting! Think quickly before the cards strike and drain your precious health. A new twist on a classic game!

Price -94% 0.59€
Rating 6.8
Release 19 Oct 2015
Human Resource Machine Program little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job. From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno.

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 Oct 2015
Downwell Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Price -84% 0.50€
Rating 9.4
Release 15 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
The Age of Decadence The Age of Decadence is a turn-based, hardcore role-playing game set in a low magic fantasy world. The game features a detailed skill-based character system, multiple skill-based ways to handle quests, choices & consequences, and extensive dialogue trees.

Price -94% 0.94€
Rating 7.9
Release 14 Oct 2015
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Find yourself trapped alone in a room with a ticking time bomb. Your friends have the manual to defuse it, but they can't see the bomb, so you're going to have to talk it out – fast!

Price -73% 4.12€
Rating 9.5
Release 08 Oct 2015
SKYHILL World War III is over, the world's infested with mutants and your supplies are running out. Fight your way down this damned hotel, from your penthouse on top to the first floor. Craft weapons, search for food and reach the exit. Otherwise you'll be torn apart, starve to death or maybe both...

Price -91% 0.93€
Rating 7.6
Release 06 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
Jotun: Valhalla Edition Jotun is a hand-drawn action-exploration game set in Norse mythology. In Jotun, you play Thora, a Viking warrior who died an inglorious death and must prove herself to the Gods to enter Valhalla. Impress the Gods!

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Sep 2015
Assault Android Cactus+ Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.

Price -84% 2.85€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 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
Timberman Become a Timberman, chop wood and avoid the branches. Almost 30 million players could not be wrong - featured as one of the best casual games.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 18 Sep 2015
Three Heroes A magic world, epic heroes, bright graphics, excellent humor and absorbing gameplay – “Three Heroes”!

Price -80% 0.79€
Rating 6.7
Release 16 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
Rampage Knights Rampage Knights is a cooperative beat 'em up game mixed up with randomized dungeon crawling and exploration, which you can play alone or with a friend online.

Price -97% 0.51€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Sep 2015
Tinboy Tinboy is a puzzle-platformer, with a massive difficulty level.

Price -86% 0.57€
Rating 6.0
Release 31 Aug 2015
Party Hard It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Price -93% 0.71€
Rating 8.8
Release 25 Aug 2015
Mega Man Legacy Collection Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.

Price -89% 1.76€
Rating 8.3
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
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
UBERMOSH UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 8.6
Release 13 Aug 2015
Hacknet Hacknet is an immersive, terminal-based hacking simulator for PC. Dive down a rabbit hoIe as you follow the instructions of a recently deceased hacker, whose death may not have been the accident the media reports.

Price -95% 0.52€
Rating 9.2
Release 12 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
Airscape - The Fall of Gravity Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors.

Price -75% 1.29€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Aug 2015
Absolute Drift Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.

Price -87% 1.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 29 Jul 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
TIS-100 TIS-100 is an open-ended programming game by Zachtronics, the creators of SpaceChem and Infinifactory, in which you rewrite corrupted code segments to repair the TIS-100 and unlock its secrets. It’s the assembly language programming game you never asked for!

Price -89% 0.82€
Rating 9.3
Release 20 Jul 2015
No Time To Explain Remastered "I Am You From The Future! No Time To Explain, Follow m-OH CHRIST!" Chase your future self through time and alternate realities while fighting giant monsters, collecting hats, and eating cake! No Time To Explain Remastered is the remake of tinyBuild's debut game. Now with multiplayer!

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 7.6
Release 17 Jul 2015
Odallus: The Dark Call The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.

Price -95% 0.55€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jul 2015
Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition Now fully rebuilt and remastered, Guild of Dungeoneering Ultimate Edition is a turn-based dungeon crawler with a twist: instead of controlling the hero you build the dungeon around them.

Price -78% 4.51€
Rating 7.5
Release 14 Jul 2015
The Red Solstice 2280 A.D. The last few survivors of a ruined Earth seek a new home: Mars, a planet whose inhabitants didn't take too kindly to outsiders. The Red Solstice is a tense, tactical, squad-based action game. Fight to survive with up to 8 players in co-op, or lead your own squad in single-player mode.

Price -95% 0.57€
Rating 6.9
Release 09 Jul 2015

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