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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Three Heroes A magic world, epic heroes, bright graphics, excellent humor and absorbing gameplay – “Three Heroes”!

Price -72% 1.14€
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 -93% 0.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Sep 2015
Tinboy Tinboy is a puzzle-platformer, with a massive difficulty level.

Price -84% 0.65€
Rating 6.0
Release 31 Aug 2015
Azure Striker Gunvolt A 2D action game featuring a young man with the power of lightning who stands for freedom against the evil ambitions of a massive organization. When lightning strikes, a new legend is born.

Price -65% 5.24€
Rating 8.1
Release 28 Aug 2015
The Black Watchmen Become a Secret Agent and investigate paranormal activities in this dark Lovecraftian universe. This Alternate Reality Game will have you explore complex puzzles in-game but also in real-life; interacting with real websites, companies, and NPCs that we created as part of our universe.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.4
Release 27 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 -94% 0.67€
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% 1.69€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Aug 2015
Flywrench Flywrench is a frenetic action game from the makers of Nidhogg about piloting an aerobatic ship through the depths of space.

Price 6.89€
Rating 8.8
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 -96% 0.59€
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 -94% 0.64€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 Aug 2015
Fingered GUILTY! THEY ARE ALL GUILTY! FINGERED is a "whodunit" hyperrealisic police sim where you must finger the guilty and clean up this darn city using the descriptions of the local busy bodies. but everyone's perspective is different: one man's fat is another man's sexy! send him to the chair!!!

Price 1.87€
Rating 7.2
Release 18 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 -90% 1.84€
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 -94% 0.60€
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 -74% 1.30€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Aug 2015
INK INK is a fast-paced platformer about using colorful paint to uncover your surroundings. Defeat all enemies in the room and reach the goal! However, the terrain is invisible, so you need to discover the terrain by physically bumping into it, by performing a double jump or by, well, dying.

Price -92% 0.44€
Rating 7.8
Release 05 Aug 2015
Duet Elegant and minimal, Duet asks players simply to navigate two orbiting spheres past an increasingly complex maze of falling obstacles. As the difficulty increases, the tension mounts, and a peculiar narrative unfolds.

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.9
Release 03 Aug 2015
Mitos.is: The Game Step into the microscopic world of Mitos.is! Eat or be eaten—become the ultimate cell in a highly addictive multiplayer game. Diverse modes, daily tournaments, guilds, and gear await! The BEST game of 2015 is back!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 29 Jul 2015
Absolute Drift Absolute Drift is a racing game about becoming a master at the art of drifting.

Price -94% 0.73€
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% 0.42€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Jul 2015
Victor Vran ARPG Victor Vran is the isometric action-RPG where your skill is just as essential as your character build and gear. Experience intense combat action: dodge, jump and unleash powerful skills to finish off your enemies!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Jul 2015
Five Nights at Freddy's 4 In this last chapter of the Five Nights at Freddy's original story, you must once again defend yourself against Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and even worse things that lurk in the shadows.

Price 7.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Jul 2015
FEIST A desperate, savage survival experience full of stunning visuals, dynamic creatures, and a haunting soundtrack.

Price 9.75€
Rating 7.1
Release 23 Jul 2015
Super Hipster Lumberjack You can't beat this game!!! Noah attempts to make a game for the first time. He then gets trapped in his own creation.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 20 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 -95% 0.40€
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 -80% 1.99€
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 -73% 5.50€
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 -94% 0.62€
Rating 6.9
Release 09 Jul 2015
Super Cyborg Super Cyborg is an old school non-stop hardcore run'n'gun action game! You are an elite battle cyborg who is sent in to investigate a series of anomalies on a mysterious island. The merciless alien known as the 'Xirxul life form' has been awakened by unwitting scientists and now: all humanity is in danger!

Price -20% 4.00€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Jul 2015
Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 07 Jul 2015
Hook HOOK is a short minimal, puzzle game.

Price -93% 0.21€
Rating 9.4
Release 06 Jul 2015
oO "oO" is a hardcore minimal arcade game.

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Jul 2015
Divide By Sheep Divide By Sheep is a mind-bending math puzzler about friendship and slicing sheep in half with lasers. The Grim Reaper flooded the world, and it's up to you to save critters stranded on islands. Insane math skills required.

Price -83% 0.85€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Jul 2015

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