Best 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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aMAZE 2 aMAZE 2 is a straightforward and surprisingly-difficult celebration of the simple beauty of the maze.

Price -75% 0.50€
Rating 8.1
Release 21 Apr 2017
Orbt XL Defy gravity in Orbt XL! A fast-paced, addictive, 'just-one-more-round' arcade score chaser. Stay in orbit, dodge obstacles, and rack up points, the closer you are to the black hole, the higher your score! Easy to learn, tough to master, and perfect for quick play sessions while waiting in queue.

Price 0.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 21 Apr 2017
Flinthook Live the life of space captain Flinthook! Armed with your mighty hookshot, your uncanny slow-motion powers and your trusty blasma pistol, plunder and fight your way through an infinite variety of randomly-assembled spaceships for treasure, loot and fame!

Price -16% 12.60€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2017
Gloom Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

Price -19% 8.19€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Apr 2017
Asura: Vengeance Edition Asura is an Action Rogue-like set in a fantasy world inspired by the richness of Indian mythology. It features a unique procedural skill tree which changes on every play-through.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Apr 2017
Mr. Shifty Teleport, shift through bullets, and master lightning-fast takedowns in an all new kind of action game from tinyBuild and Team Shifty!

Price -97% 0.56€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Apr 2017
Spark the Electric Jester Spark the electric jester is an action/platformer video game heavily based on best classics from the 16-bit era from both sides of the aisle.

Price 6.59€
Rating 8.8
Release 10 Apr 2017
Slime-san: Superslime Edition Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!

Price -54% 6.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 07 Apr 2017
Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment Take control of Specter Knight, servant to the Enchantress, in a quest to recruit a cadre of knights and create the Order of No Quarter. Experience perfect platforming, world-class visuals, impeccable stage design, incredible music, and even meet a friend or two in Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment!

Price -56% 4.41€
Rating 8.8
Release 05 Apr 2017
Soccer Online: Ball 3D Multiplayer soccer simulator. Control one player. Play online or with bots.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.3
Release 31 Mar 2017
Sumoman Sumoman is an adventure puzzle platformer with advanced physics, destructible objects and the ability to reverse time. Solve various physical puzzles, trying to keep the unstable Sumoman on his feet in challenging environments.

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Mar 2017
Snake Pass Slither, coil and climb your way to the top of Haven Tor in this one of a kind physics based, puzzle platform adventure from award winning independent studio Sumo Digital!

Price -97% 0.73€
Rating 7.7
Release 28 Mar 2017
Rain World You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Price -91% 2.27€
Rating 9.2
Release 28 Mar 2017
Grass Cutter - Mutated Lawns Challenge lawn monsters!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Mar 2017
McOsu A free open-source circle-clicking rhythm game practice client for osu! beatmaps with Virtual Reality support. McOsu is developed separately from and has no direct affiliation with osu! or ppy Pty Ltd.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.6
Release 20 Mar 2017
Cosmic Express Plan the train route for the universe's most awkward space colony!

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Mar 2017
64.0 64.0 is a minimal fast-paced arcade game, where you shoot the squares that have the same color as the background.

Price -23% 2.33€
Rating 8.6
Release 16 Mar 2017
CHAOS CODE -NEW SIGN OF CATASTROPHE- Simple yet highly flexible hi-speed 2D Fighting game! Enjoy the thrill of fighting with all the flashy moves!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 Mar 2017
Nephise Nephise is a short and atmospheric puzzle game with narration. It is a relaxing and mysterious experience especially with the help of its music.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Mar 2017
Styx: Shards of Darkness Styx returns in a new stealth adventure! Explore and master huge open environments, sneak past or assassinate new enemies and bosses, and experiment with the new array of lethal abilities and weapons in our goblin assassin's arsenal.

Price -75% 5.13€
Rating 8.1
Release 14 Mar 2017
Death Squared Death Squared is a co-op puzzle game about cooperation, communication, and robot explosions. You should buy it!

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 8.4
Release 13 Mar 2017
DED DED - a game in the shoot'em up genre. Your granddaughter has been kidnapped, and your daughter and son-in-law murdered. Having just bits and pieces of information about the abductors, you will have to save your granddaughter and find the masterminds behind these crimes.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Mar 2017
DESYNC DESYNC is an intense single-player first person action game that begs you to play dangerously and creatively. Eliminate your opponents as you perform violent attack sequences using the explosive digital weaponry and lethal side-arms at your disposal.

Price -92% 1.20€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Feb 2017
Furious Angels Furious Angels is a brutal score attack shooter with different waves each day. Compete on the leaderboards, transform into a flying tank and shred the skies to pieces!

Price -65% 1.78€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Feb 2017

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