Best Difficult games on PC
Games with demanding combat, platforming, survival systems, or competitive play that require practice, precise execution, and effective strategies.
- Frequent failure and repeated attempts
- Limited room for mistakes
- Skill-based challenges
Related: Souls-like, Survival, Competitive, Action Roguelike
3,400 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Ligo
2D Sokoban adventure built around merging and cutting creatures
100% positive
58 reviews
ANCIENT RUS VS LIZARDS
Hack-and-slash action with Slavic heroes fighting off invading lizards
59% positive
58 reviews
Demo Factory 95
Automation puzzles about building slide factories inside a retro desktop
86% positive
58 reviews
Bloody Streets
A top-down zombie shooter with swarms to outmaneuver and destroy
84% positive
57 reviews
Demo Rebirth of Island
Top-down survival built around keeping a settlement alive on alien planets
44% positive
57 reviews
Save the Ninja Clan
A ninja platformer where hidden glitches let you bypass levels
93% positive
57 reviews
Demo DERU - The Art of Cooperation
Cooperative puzzle game where changing size helps you protect your partner
89% positive
57 reviews
2DGameManias Taken
Retro action platformer with hidden areas and timed escapes
42% positive
Free
Demo Amberial Dreams
A physics-based precision platformer where you roll rather than jump
95% positive
57 reviews
Space Smash
Twin-stick arcade shooter set in a constantly shrinking space arena
91% positive
57 reviews
Blacklist Brigade
Top-down tactical shooter with pausable combat and AI squad commands
93% positive
57 reviews
Gravity Block
A puzzle game about rotating scenes to move a block
93% positive
57 reviews
Demo PolyCore Defense
Tower defense with modular upgrades and damage-free map challenges
88% positive
57 reviews
Project Hunter
Stealth strategy about hunting humans as an evolving alien
70% positive
Free
Seeking Light
Isometric action adventure built around boss fights and environmental puzzles
65% positive
Free
Truxton 2
A vertical arcade shooter with enemy-tracking lasers and local co-op
84% positive
57 reviews
Swirl W@tch
Top-down stealth with ships concealed by a gas giant's clouds
98% positive
57 reviews
Frightened
Cooperative survival horror about collecting ritual items to destroy a demon
60% positive
57 reviews
PortalSnake
A puzzle game where portals resize, rotate, and duplicate snakes
100% positive
57 reviews
SHINONOME ABYSS The Maiden Exorcist
Survival horror dungeon crawler with traps and a danger-triggered transformation
77% positive
57 reviews
Demo Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer
A puzzle platformer where walls become paths by inverting space
80% positive
56 reviews
Infernal Radiation
Action RPG with demon battles tackled in your chosen order
79% positive
56 reviews
Crome: Before Purgatory
Retro space shooter with a boss that gains new attacks
89% positive
Free
Baby Walking Simulator
A one-button physics game about learning to walk
93% positive
56 reviews