Best Difficult Games on Steam

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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DEAD RISING® You are Frank West. A hard-edged photojournalist hellbent on investigating the mystery at Willamette Mall. It's swarming with zombies. You have 72 hours. Chop 'till you drop!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 12 Sep 2016
Iron Sea Defenders Man the guns! The enemy fleet is on the horizon! Defend your fort from attacks – show your tactical skill.

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.6
Release 09 Sep 2016
Flat Heroes Dodge, jump, and dash your way through hundreds of terrifying geometric levels and epic bosses. Too tough? Bring your friends!

Price -94% 0.67€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Sep 2016
Safety First! Safety First! is a twin stick physics puzzler in which you have to fix broken electric wires using your Magical Yellow Repair Liquid (MYRL). Can you beat all 69 levels?

Price -91% 0.27€
Rating 7.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Dungeon Rushers A Heroic-Parody tactical RPG combining dungeon crawler’s gameplay and turn-based fights. Dive in an off-beat universe, manage your team and craft mighty gear to equip them! Build your own dungeon by hiding traps and monsters in your galleries, then challenge other players to clean it!

Price -96% 0.74€
Rating 6.1
Release 06 Sep 2016
Aim Hero Aim Hero is an ultimate solution for practicing firing accuracy to do better in FPS games.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Sep 2016
Mother Russia Bleeds An old-fashioned beat 'em up with big doses of adrenaline and trippiness, somewhere between the classic style of Streets of Rage and the ultra-violence of Hotline Miami. Set in a cold, ruthless Soviet Union, Mother Russia Bleeds aims to conjure up anxiety, unease, and drug-addled frenzy.

Price -92% 1.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 05 Sep 2016
Redout: Enhanced Edition Redout is a tribute to the old racing monsters such as F-Zero, WipeOut, Rollcage, and POD. It is designed to be an uncompromising, fast, tough and satisfying driving experience, soaked in that vertigo that stands at the core of the arcade racing genre.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Sep 2016
The Underground Man Moscow: somewhere in the near future. The city and perhaps the Earth's surface has turned into a radioactive ash. Those who decided that they could not exist in such conditions began to live under the ground.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 01 Sep 2016
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Aug 2016
Lost Castle / 失落城堡 Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 31 Aug 2016
Four Sided Fantasy A game about the limits of your screen. Four Sided Fantasy is a seamless experience where you wrap the screen to solve mind-bending puzzles. Play as a man and woman who attempt to find each other throughout four seasons in a year, constantly separated by the boundaries of the screen.

Price -96% 0.43€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Aug 2016
Tribal Pass A genre-twisting tactical runner where you maneuver, fight, think, sacrifice and evolve – all ON THE RUN.

Price -82% 1.08€
Rating 7.2
Release 26 Aug 2016
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
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 -47% 7.97€
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 -93% 1.16€
Rating 6.8
Release 22 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 -80% 2.55€
Rating 7.3
Release 18 Aug 2016
UBERMOSH Vol.3 The third volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 8.2
Release 15 Aug 2016
Reigns Sit on the throne as a benevolent (or malevolent) medieval monarch of the modern age and swipe your royal controller either left or right to impose your will upon the kingdom.

Price -81% 0.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 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 -96% 0.23€
Rating 8.3
Release 10 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 -94% 1.26€
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 -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 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
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 -97% 0.52€
Rating 8.2
Release 05 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 -16% 8.26€
Rating 8.0
Release 03 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 -94% 0.96€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Aug 2016
You Have 10 Seconds You Have 10 Seconds is a fast paced arcade style platformer game with over 40 levels.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 02 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 -39% 4.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Aug 2016
Broken Armor A knight exiled from his kingdom must find the holy grail if he is to return.

Price 1.09€
Rating 7.8
Release 01 Aug 2016
Redactem Rewind time and manipulate gravity in order to solve parkour puzzles in this exciting new 2D platformer.

Price -98% 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 -97% 0.50€
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 -5% 9.53€
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 -25% 11.26€
Rating 9.0
Release 21 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 -96% 0.63€
Rating 9.0
Release 20 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 -70% 0.59€
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 -66% 4.33€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Jul 2016

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