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
3,401 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Isometric World War II tactics built around stealth and sabotage
90% positive
3,685 reviews
Get To Work
Precision platformer about climbing the corporate ladder on rollerblades
87% positive
3,679 reviews
LUFTRAUSERS
Fast-paced arcade shooter with customizable planes and high-score runs
91% positive
3,673 reviews
Demo Deadlink
Cyberpunk first-person shooter with randomized runs and upgradeable combat shells
89% positive
3,671 reviews
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty
Side-scrolling puzzle platformer about escaping a deadly meat factory
86% positive
3,668 reviews
Warspear Online
Free-to-play pixel MMORPG built around faction warfare and guild battles
72% positive
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Zombie Night Terror
A 2D puzzle game about spreading a zombie outbreak
93% positive
3,646 reviews
Demo Daymare: 1998
Third-person survival horror with scarce ammo and shifting perspectives
68% positive
3,642 reviews
Welcome to the Game II
First-person horror puzzle game about finding hidden hashes while hunted
84% positive
3,639 reviews
Demo Redout: Enhanced Edition
Anti-gravity arcade racing on twisting tracks with physics-based ship handling
85% positive
3,634 reviews
Planes, Bullets and Vodka
Top-down arcade shooter through generated tunnels and dense enemy fire
86% positive
3,634 reviews
Demo Shank 2
Side-scrolling brawler with blades, guns, and co-op survival
82% positive
3,633 reviews
DOKA 2 KISHKI EDITION
Gory action game where you kill zombies or play as one
84% positive
3,630 reviews
The End Is Nigh
Difficult 2D platformer about building a friend after the apocalypse
93% positive
3,626 reviews
The Bridge
2D logic puzzles where changing gravity turns ceilings into floors
88% positive
3,621 reviews
CASE 2: Animatronics Survival
First-person survival horror with puzzles, stealth, and hostile animatronics
81% positive
3,620 reviews
Scars Above
Third-person sci-fi shooter with elemental combat on an alien planet
77% positive
3,617 reviews
Rampage Knights
Co-op beat 'em up with randomized dungeons and gear
93% positive
3,613 reviews
Roguebook
Turn-based deckbuilding roguelike with two heroes and ink-based exploration
82% positive
3,613 reviews
Blackthorn Arena
Gladiator management RPG where trained fighters risk death in competition
68% positive
3,588 reviews
永远消失的幻想乡 ～ The Disappearing of Gensokyo
Touhou action RPG with bullet-hell shooting and varied characters
83% positive
3,581 reviews
Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter
Arcade-style first-person shooter built around waves of monsters
95% positive
3,570 reviews
Demo Freedom Planet
Fast-paced 2D platformer with character-specific combat and alien bosses
96% positive
3,556 reviews
Monstrum
First-person survival horror with shifting ship layouts and stalking monsters
91% positive
3,554 reviews