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. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Difficult games on Steam.

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Worm.is: The Game Smash worms or slither trying! Warning: Incredibly addicting Multiplayer Game!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 04 May 2016
Gun Rocket If you are not prepared for a challenge - turn back now. Gun Rocket is a 2D physics puzzler that is not for the feint of heart or the stiff of fingers. In search of adventure, you have been caught by holes in space and time. Can you escape?

Price -76% 0.48€
Rating 6.9
Release 02 May 2016
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition “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.

Price 19.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2016
Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga Caveman World: Mountains of Unga Boonga is a retro inspired platformer adventure game set in fantasy prehistoric time. You play as a Caveman, exploring various levels and overcoming physical obstacles. Levels become increasingly more difficult as you encounter enemies, obstacles, traps and more!

Price -89% 0.23€
Rating 6.7
Release 26 Apr 2016
Don't Starve Together Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Price -73% 4.18€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Apr 2016
Bloons TD Battles Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 20 Apr 2016
Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code The final episode of the series, "MELTY BLOOD Actress Again Current Code" is now on Steam!

Price -96% 0.92€
Rating 9.0
Release 19 Apr 2016
Stephen's Sausage Roll A simple 3d puzzle game.

Price -23% 22.41€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Apr 2016
Goetia Goetia is a point & click adventure where you play the ghost of a young lady. You are Abigail. Abigail Blackwood.

Price -97% 0.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 14 Apr 2016
DARK SOULS™ III Dark Souls continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. Prepare yourself and Embrace The Darkness!

Price 59.99€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Apr 2016
NO THING The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.

Price -32% 2.72€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Apr 2016
Enter the Gungeon Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Price -83% 2.55€
Rating 9.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE- The ultimate melee action [GUILTY GEAR 2 -OVERTURE-] is now on Steam!! Pushing [Gameplay] and [Entertainment] to the extremes, with a splash of [Competitiveness] -- That's GUILTY GEAR 2 for you.

Price -92% 1.66€
Rating 7.1
Release 31 Mar 2016
Hyper Light Drifter Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Price -33% 10.06€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Mar 2016
Leap of Fate Leap of Fate is a furiously-paced cyberpunk roguelite about overcoming your fears and achieving your fate. In a New York City where magic is real, you play as a technomage who must develop unspeakable powers to confront the Crucible of Fates. Can you survive the trials?

Price -96% 0.78€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Mar 2016
Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation When a mysterious beam from space transforms the world into a game, the Angry Video Game Nerd must return to put the "ASS" in ASSimilation. Utilize new mechanics, power-ups, abilities, and collectible armor pieces to defeat your most powerful foe yet, and save the world!

Price -65% 1.79€
Rating 8.4
Release 29 Mar 2016
FORCED SHOWDOWN Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.

Price -98% 0.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Mar 2016
1993 Space Machine Space shooters never die. 1993 is a testament to that. 1993 is a classic shoot em up celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force.

Price -98% 0.24€
Rating 6.7
Release 28 Mar 2016
The Deer "The Deer" is an educational inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence for children. You'll be an ancient Deer during the Pleistocene (Ice Age) epoch and you'll discover everything about this marvelous era. Unfortunately there were no T-Rex during this age since they were already extinct millions of years before.

Price -46% 0.49€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2016
Slain: Back from Hell Slain: Back from Hell. A heavy metal inspired arcade combat with puzzle elements and gore galore. Stunning visuals and true old school gameplay accompanied by the most metal soundtrack you've ever heard.

Price -96% 0.50€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Mar 2016
Trackmania® Turbo Trackmania offers you the ultimate arcade racing universe where everything is about reaching the perfect racing time. Test your skills in over 200 tracks, experience immediate fun by challenging your friends at home (offline splitscreen) or online.

Price 39.99€
Rating 6.4
Release 24 Mar 2016
Defy Gravity Extended Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Price -88% 0.24€
Rating 8.4
Release 18 Mar 2016
Sophie's Curse You got a job, which is to take care of an old man during the night in a recently purchased house; this house does not have electricity and you have to rely on some kind of hand crank generators to light the place up, but there is something in the darkness draining their power, don’t let it happen!

Price -81% 0.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Mar 2016
Sheltered Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Price -96% 0.61€
Rating 7.9
Release 15 Mar 2016