Discounted Difficult Games on Steam

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Tribal Pass A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.

Price -76% 1.37€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Aug 2016
N++ (NPLUSPLUS) N++ is a fast-paced, momentum-based platformer about darting around obstacles, narrowly evading enemies and collecting gold in a beautiful minimalist landscape.

Price -42% 8.76€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Aug 2016
Tempest: Pirate Action RPG Tempest is a Pirate Open World Action RPG where you rove the seas across three continents filled with dozens of colonies and forts, hundreds of quests and countless ships to plunder. Customize your ship, trade, challenge fellow pirates and face mythical monsters such as the Kraken and Leviathan!

Price -91% 1.39€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 Aug 2016
UBERMOSH Vol.3 The third volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 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% 0.69€
Rating 7.5
Release 10 Aug 2016
Rock 'N' Roll Defense Rocked by an explosive soundtrack, choose your band, place your equipments and defend the Rock 'N' Roll from everyone and everything who try to pull it down, on a totally hardcore tower defense!

Price -75% 0.25€
Rating 8.3
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 -50% 0.99€
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% 0.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 Aug 2016
Overcooked Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2016
CASE: Animatronics CASE: Animatronics is a truly scary and challenging first-person stealth horror on PC. Control of the police department is in the hands of anonymous hacker. All exits are locked. Electricity is off. Metallic thumps are getting closer. Will you survive, Detective Bishop?

Price -34% 6.51€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 Aug 2016
Redactem Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Price -86% 0.14€
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Aug 2016
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell Like a bastard child of Quake 3 and Super Meat Boy, SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell is truly hardcore and focuses on speed and fast reaction.

Price -94% 0.96€
Rating 9.1
Release 28 Jul 2016
Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense Command your troops through an epic (mis)adventure as you defend exotic lands from dragons, man-eating plants, and ghastly denizens of the underworld -all with flashy new towers, levels, heroes, and more goodies to help you crush your foes in this Fantasy Action Tower Defense game!

Price -2% 9.87€
Rating 9.4
Release 25 Jul 2016
Death Road to Canada Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Price -26% 11.20€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 Jul 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 -73% 0.54€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Jul 2016
Zombie Night Terror Prepare yourself for the most thrilling night of your life! Something strange has happened and people everywhere are turning into blood thirsty walking corpses. But guess who’s the brains behind this hungry undead army? YOU! So spread this pandemic and wipe humanity off the planet.

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 Jul 2016
10 Second Ninja X 10 SECOND NINJA X is a hardcore sidescroller. You're a ninja, there are robots, you've got ten seconds to destroy them all. Get three star ratings, climb leaderboards, discover secrets and stop Captain Greatbeard.

Price -95% 0.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 19 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 -69% 3.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jul 2016
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair It's a fight for the future of the planet between the Ravagers, a merciless swarm of alien invaders, and the Earth Defense Force (EDF) in this third-person shooter.Play as four different classes in over 80 missions with a range of 800 weapons at your disposal.Co-op play supported.

Price -84% 2.76€
Rating 9.2
Release 18 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 -41% 1.19€
Rating 7.4
Release 13 Jul 2016
Poly Bridge Unleash your engineering creativity with an engaging and fresh bridge-building simulator with all the bells and whistles. Enjoy hours of physics-based puzzle solving in the Campaign and then jump in the Sandbox to create your own bridge designs and puzzles!

Price -39% 5.05€
Rating 8.9
Release 12 Jul 2016
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late Dramatic Stylish 2D Fighting Action 「UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late」 now on Steam!

Price -93% 2.01€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Jul 2016
Bot Vice Show off your skills & reflexes in this frantic gallery shooter action arcade, filled with bullets, bots and explosions! You play as Erin Saver, carrying out her personal vendetta against the criminal Wildbots.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Jul 2016
NOT A HERO Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

Price -86% 2.77€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 Jul 2016