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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Demo Super Cyborg
Side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter with alien hordes and tough bosses
86% positive
840 reviews
You Have 10 Seconds 2
2D platformer built around reaching each exit in ten seconds
90% positive
Free
City of Brass
First-person action roguelite with traps you turn against enemies
77% positive
837 reviews
Fork Parker's Holiday Profit Hike
A free 2D platformer about climbing a mountain for money
83% positive
Free
Demo MarZ: Tactical Base Defense
Tower defense and base building against undead cosmonauts on Mars
77% positive
834 reviews
Soundodger+
Music-based bullet hell with projectile patterns synchronized to each track
90% positive
832 reviews
UnderParty
Violent 2D action platformer with combos and varied bosses
85% positive
830 reviews
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX
Top-down bullet hell shooter where one hit ends your run
92% positive
Free
Momoka (wo) Wasshoi
A 2D platformer about carrying a drunk musician home
94% positive
829 reviews
Kelipot
Side-scrolling action platformer with branching boss fights and roguelite runs
85% positive
826 reviews
Unworthy
A combat-focused metroidvania where you explore without a jump button
79% positive
824 reviews
Egging On
Physics-based platformer about climbing to the top as an egg
72% positive
824 reviews
No Plan B
Top-down tactical strategy where you plan every move before combat
85% positive
823 reviews
Lingo
First-person word puzzles in a maze of impossible spaces
93% positive
823 reviews
Broken Armor
Top-down arcade action through changing floors with limited weapons
83% positive
822 reviews
LivingBattle
Open-world action with shooting missions, cars, and motorcycles to drive
37% positive
Free
Demo Dungeon Rushers
Turn-based dungeon crawling with party tactics and custom dungeon building
63% positive
821 reviews
Inertia
First-person platforming with free-running movement across increasingly difficult obstacle courses
83% positive
818 reviews
Demo Help Will Come Tomorrow
Survival strategy in Siberia with scarce supplies and class tensions
80% positive
818 reviews
Project Unknown
First-person co-op horror about finding cursed objects and exorcising ghosts
80% positive
818 reviews
Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe
Two retro action platformers connected by a new final chapter
95% positive
816 reviews
Bionic Bay
2D sci-fi puzzle platformer built around physics and position swapping
84% positive
815 reviews
Serpent's Gaze
Soulslike action roguelike with curses that change each run
87% positive
815 reviews
XENOTILT: HOSTILE PINBALL ACTION
Arcade pinball on an infested ship with turrets and bosses
96% positive
814 reviews