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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GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R Ultimate battle action, and the epitome of the GUILTY GEAR XX series now on Steam! Bonus soundtracks included!

Price -95% 0.76€
Rating 9.3
Release 26 May 2015
A Bastard's Tale A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 26 May 2015
Audiosurf 2 Ride your music in more ways than ever before. Audiosurf 2 is the music game for your entire music collection. Hundreds of mods/skins on Workshop. Free demo available.

Price 14.79€
Rating 8.0
Release 26 May 2015
BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition With BADLAND: Game of the Year Edition, experience the multi-award-winning action adventure like never before - redesigned for Steam.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 26 May 2015
60 Seconds! 60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 May 2015
Monstrum Monstrum takes the traditional survival horror formula and remixes it completely with procedurally generated levels, permadeath, and AI driven predators, ensuring that nowhere on its derelict cargo ship is ever truly safe.

Price -94% 0.92€
Rating 8.7
Release 20 May 2015
Axiom Verge Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Price -94% 1.20€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2015
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons Jigoku Kisetsukan is a bullet hell shootergame with anime-style drawings and chip music.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 12 May 2015
Invisible, Inc. Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Price -70% 6.00€
Rating 8.8
Release 12 May 2015
Tiny Bridge: Ratventure This mind-bending game will challenge you to create complex structures to get your woodland creatures over vast chasms. In a bridge-builder first, you'll guide your creatures and construct your bridges in real time. Use the weight of various creatures to balance your structures as you build them.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 08 May 2015
Snakebird Do you like puzzles, fruit and the notion of crossing a snake with a bird for no good reason? If the answer to at least one of those questions is yes, then Snakebird might be the game for you. Solve your way through this headscratcher of a puzzle game and help the snakebirds sate their hunger.

Price -97% 0.27€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2015
GemCraft - Chasing Shadows An epic, challenging tower defense game with an emphasis on strategy and replayability. Summon gems of immense magical potency and harness their unique abilities against a seemingly endless horde of monsters. The archdemon seeks to swallow the world, and you must journey to stand against her.

Price -97% 0.32€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Apr 2015
Exanima Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.

Price -19% 11.44€
Rating 8.0
Release 29 Apr 2015
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim Adventurer Adol Christin has washed ashore in yet another mysterious, isolated new land, inhabited by a people who sport long ears and bushy tails...and are none too fond of humans. Experience the very first 3D Ys game as never before, with a whole new gameplay mode unique to this release!

Price -96% 0.84€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Apr 2015
Kerbal Space Program In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Price -93% 2.94€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2015
Blender Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. Free to use for everyone, for any purpose.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.5
Release 24 Apr 2015
DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon is a colorful and lovingly hand-drawn Action RPG inspired by the 16-bit era. Finally, YOU get to play as the dragon! Breathe fire, fight knights, hoard gold, and find treasure! A refreshingly lighthearted game with an endearing story.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 24 Apr 2015
Crypt of the NecroDancer Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

Price -95% 0.85€
Rating 9.4
Release 23 Apr 2015
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Apr 2015
Environmental Station Alpha Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Price -51% 3.94€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Apr 2015
Kalimba Jump, switch and fly your way through mind-bending subterranean puzzles in this stunning new platforming adventure from the award-winning Press Play!

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 22 Apr 2015
JumpJet Rex Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
Convoy Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.5
Release 21 Apr 2015
Titan Souls Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.

Price -97% 0.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 14 Apr 2015