Discounted Difficult Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Elite Dangerous Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Price -88% 2.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Apr 2015
Sun Blast: Star Fighter Sun Blast is the best 3d space shooter on Steam. Earn upgrades as you fight your way through a huge seleciton of levels. Full gamepad support!

Price -72% 0.55€
Rating 6.0
Release 02 Apr 2015
Out There: Ω Edition Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.

Price -77% 3.54€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Apr 2015
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin brings the franchise’s renowned obscurity & gripping gameplay to a new level. Join the dark journey and experience overwhelming enemy encounters, diabolical hazards, and unrelenting challenge.

Price -68% 13.11€
Rating 8.3
Release 01 Apr 2015
Please, Don’t Touch Anything A brain-racking game about bathroom breaks, screwdrivers and nuclear explosions.

Price -54% 2.33€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Mar 2015
World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7 The series "World of Subways" features some of the most interesting Subway Routes of the world for the PC. Once again World of Subways 4 comes back to New York, perhaps the most exciting city in the world. The whole gaming world takes place in the 70ies/80ies and is created in its typical look.

Price -76% 4.86€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 Mar 2015
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.

Price -94% 0.90€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 Mar 2015
Ori and the Blind Forest “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Price -74% 2.98€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 Mar 2015
Marble Age Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Price -75% 1.47€
Rating 7.8
Release 04 Mar 2015
BLACKHOLE BLACKHOLE is an award-winning hardcore platformer with over 15 hours of story-driven sci-fi comedy and gravity-twisting puzzles. Complete Edition out now!

Price -95% 0.45€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Feb 2015
Cubicle Quest Cubicle Quest is a game about how life can suck. Dead end jobs, repetitive obligations, irritating coworkers... Cubicle Quest takes all of those things and turns them into enemies you can fight in an old-school RPG.

Price -95% 0.25€
Rating 7.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

Price -98% 0.39€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty Built from scratch, enjoy breathtaking visuals, enhanced audio and improved, deeper gameplay as New 'n' Tasty reignites the original Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee using the latest next-generation technology.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 Feb 2015
Hand of Fate Deckbuilding comes to life in Hand of Fate! An infinitely replayable series of quests - earn new cards, build your deck, then try to defeat it! In a cabin at the end of the world, the game of life and death is played. Draw your cards, play your hand, and discover your fate.

Price -96% 0.91€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Feb 2015
David. You play David, an awfully small abstracted chosen hero tossed into a blissfully simple world overrun by giant culminations of evil physics-beasts. As David, you are given a slingshot-esque gift that you will have to use to conquer your colossus foes. Be there AND be square.

Price -60% 0.80€
Rating 7.5
Release 16 Feb 2015
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition The great action-crazed, guns blazing, shoot ‘em up game comes back straight out of the ‘90s. Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills.

Price -41% 2.95€
Rating 6.9
Release 13 Feb 2015
The Escapists The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Price -95% 0.78€
Rating 8.8
Release 13 Feb 2015
Plazma Being Take control of Zeb in this puzzle/platformer. He is a small energy based life form from space, known as a Plazma Being. While journeying through space to his home, Zeb was surprised to find that he was being kidnapped by aliens. They took him back to their planet and unceremoniously threw him into captivity.

Price -81% 0.38€
Rating 7.2
Release 09 Feb 2015
Apotheon Apotheon is a heroic action game set within the vibrant world of Ancient Greek Mythology. Ascend Mount Olympus, wrestle the divine powers from the Pantheon of Gods, and save mankind.

Price -70% 4.52€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Feb 2015
Overture Overture is an action-adventure roguelike which draws heavy inspiration from hits such as Diablo, Realm of The Mad God, Zelda, and The Binding of Isaac. Explore vast randomly generated dungeons and slay hordes of cunning enemies!

Price -87% 0.52€
Rating 7.3
Release 02 Feb 2015
Grim Fandango Remastered One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release.

Price -80% 3.06€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Jan 2015
Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.

Price -96% 0.45€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2015
Resident Evil The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.

Price -79% 4.26€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Jan 2015
Castle Build and protect castles simultaneously in this original and addictive game!

Price -86% 0.57€
Rating 6.7
Release 07 Jan 2015

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