Discounted Difficult Games on Steam

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Monochroma Monochroma is a cinematic puzzle platformer. It’s a game about being a kid, growing up with a little brother that needs your help, facing obstacles and solving unique puzzles in a dystopian 1950's setting.

Price -88% 2.42€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 May 2014
Final Fantasy III (3D Remake) FINAL FANTASY® III, one of the best-loved games from the epic RPG series, available on Steam.

Price -67% 4.29€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 May 2014
ibb & obb ibb & obb is a two player cooperative game set in a puzzle filled world where gravity goes both up and down. You can only succeed by working closely together. Find a friend for some true local co-op couch fun or match up online.

Price -16% 8.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 26 May 2014
Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut is the definitive version of the brain-twisting first-person puzzler. Using special high-tech gloves to manipulate cubes in the environment, the player solves an array of conundrums - from physics-based challenges; to 3D jigsaws; to platform-based trials.

Price -92% 0.59€
Rating 7.9
Release 21 May 2014
100% Orange Juice 100% Orange Juice is a digital multiplayer board game populated by developer Orange Juice's all-star cast. Characters from Flying Red Barrel, QP Shooting, Suguri and Sora come together with all-new characters to duke it out... with dice.

Price -92% 0.62€
Rating 9.0
Release 16 May 2014
Men of War: Assault Squad 2 Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Price -96% 1.20€
Rating 9.0
Release 15 May 2014
Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure Tex Murphy is the last of the hard-boiled gumshoe detectives living in dystopian post-World War III San Francisco in the 2050s. Tex is an honest and good-natured private investigator with a penchant for bourbon, cigarettes and getting himself into trouble.

Price -96% 0.98€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 May 2014
Bound By Flame You are a mercenary possessed by a flame demon in a desperate world ravaged by seven Ice Lords. In this RPG where every choice counts, you will have to choose between unleashing the powers of the beast within and rejecting its demonic influence.

Price -88% 0.85€
Rating 6.7
Release 08 May 2014
Full Mojo Rampage Full Mojo Rampage is a rogue-like game that takes place within the confines of the Voodoo reality. In this realm only the most powerful rites and powers can provide a safeguard against evil. Dying is not the end, only the beginning to becoming a stronger voodoo soul!

Price -81% 2.31€
Rating 8.0
Release 08 May 2014
8BitBoy™ Huge classic platformer with several power-ups and 8-12 hours of main story & 300+ hidden locations just begging for exploration · 56 big Levels · 5 huge worlds

Price -85% 0.91€
Rating 7.1
Release 05 May 2014
Vangers Mind-altering sandbox game that can be described as a racing role-playing adventure game with a complicated storyline. You’ll find a unique atmosphere, complete freedom and lots of gameplay hours to figure out what’s the game is all about.

Price -42% 4.12€
Rating 8.9
Release 24 Apr 2014
Circuits Simple in concept, but very challenging and rewarding,Circuits is a puzzle game that requires careful listening to complete each level. The goal of Circuits : piece together the different parts of a song. Sounds easy, but maybe not.

Price -84% 0.82€
Rating 8.5
Release 17 Apr 2014
Wargame: Red Dragon The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.

Price -68% 9.86€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Apr 2014
Quest of Dungeons Quest of Dungeons is a turn based dungeon crawler game featuring a good old 16-bit retro artistic look. By playing as either a Warrior, Wizard, Assassin or Shaman you have to traverse dungeons, defeat enemies and loot everything you can in order to survive.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 7.2
Release 25 Mar 2014
YAIBA: NINJA GAIDEN Z Step into a living comic book in this new take on the Ninja Gaiden series. Brandishing his ninja sword and the mecha weapons in his cyber arm, Yaiba slaughters zombies with brutal, over-the-top abandon. Will you slice enemies to pieces, crush them with Yaiba's cyborg arm or just rip off a zombie’s arms to use as nunchucks?

Price -40% 18.23€
Rating 6.3
Release 21 Mar 2014
Cloudbuilt Rocket parkour your way through dizzying obstacles and lethal robot hazards, in this 3rd person action platformer with over 40 levels, and even more community levels.

Price -15% 16.16€
Rating 8.2
Release 20 Mar 2014
LUFTRAUSERS The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Price -85% 1.53€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Mar 2014
LYNE Deceptively simple. Infinitely complex. LYNE is a minimalist puzzle game that will knot your brain as it calms your soul. Connect the shapes. Fill the board. Lose yourself in the interflowing paths of LYNE.

Price -83% 0.43€
Rating 9.3
Release 17 Mar 2014
TowerFall Ascension TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 9.1
Release 11 Mar 2014
GIGANTIC ARMY Side-scrolling mech-shooting bad-assery is BACK!GIGANTIC ARMY is a heartfelt homage to 16-bit era mech shooters such as Cybernator / Assault Suits Valken, Metal Warriors, and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, developed by the studio behind the acclaimed shooter SATAZIUS.

Price -61% 2.31€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Mar 2014
Tower of Guns Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).

Price -97% 0.41€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Mar 2014
One Finger Death Punch Experience cinematic kung-fu battles in the fastest, most intense brawler the indie world has ever seen! With the unique 1:1 response system of One Finger Death Punch, players will feel the immediate feedback of every bone-crunching hit. Pay tribute to the masters using five classic kung-fu styles mixed with additional weapons.

Price -86% 0.74€
Rating 9.5
Release 03 Mar 2014
Resident Evil 4 (2005) (Release: 2014) Special agent Leon S. Kennedy is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President’s daughter who has been kidnapped.

Price -80% 4.02€
Rating 9.2
Release 27 Feb 2014
Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge Ultionus is a love-letter to the home computer arcade games of the late 80s and early 90s, with colorful 2D visuals, catchy chiptune music by the legendary Jake 'Virt' Kaufman, and 7 stages of hard-as-nails gameplay.

Price -51% 3.48€
Rating 6.5
Release 25 Feb 2014

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