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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Cervus Blade
Free Souls-like action in a desert of deer worshipers
89% positive
Free
Spirits Abyss
A roguelite platformer where you can destroy the terrain
95% positive
444 reviews
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
Fast-paced 2D platformer with secrets, side quests, and bosses
95% positive
444 reviews
Pro Cycling Manager 2022
Cycling management simulation with team planning and race-day tactics
85% positive
443 reviews
Sora
A sci-fi bullet hell shooter built around three-weapon loadouts
93% positive
440 reviews
Demo Fragile
Horror puzzle adventure about a child's escape from captivity
65% positive
439 reviews
WarriOrb: Prologue
Side-scrolling action platformer starring a demon trapped in a ball
88% positive
Free
SpellMaster: The Saga
Open-world fantasy action RPG with magic and nonlinear quests
44% positive
439 reviews
DarkMaus
Top-down action RPG where dying brings ghosts to your aid
79% positive
437 reviews
qop 4
Minimalist sliding-cube puzzles with teleporters and lock cubes
94% positive
437 reviews
Pixel Gladiator
Side-scrolling tower defense where fighting on camera pays for upgrades
83% positive
436 reviews
Disoriented
First-person puzzle game where curved paths change gravity
82% positive
436 reviews
Knock Harder: Useless
Survival horror built around telling dreams apart from reality
94% positive
Free
GARAGE: Bad Trip
Top-down horror shooter balancing monster fights with ammunition management
73% positive
435 reviews
Reignfall
Real-time strategy with city building and direct third-person hero control
88% positive
434 reviews
Arrest of a stone Buddha
A noir shoot-'em-up split between gunfights and mundane city life
69% positive
434 reviews
Little Triangle
Side-scrolling platformer with local co-op and head-stomping battle royale matches
89% positive
433 reviews
Berserk Boy
Fast 2D action platformer built around dashes and changing powers
85% positive
433 reviews
Winter
Pixel-art settlement strategy with nightly attacks from Slavic creatures
69% positive
433 reviews
Demo Maxwell's puzzling demon
Grid-based block-pushing puzzles where cold blocks cool hot ones
98% positive
433 reviews
King of Dragon Pass
Fantasy clan-management strategy RPG driven by mythology and diplomacy
80% positive
432 reviews
Graviteam Tactics: Operation Star
World War II wargame with detailed tank damage simulation
81% positive
431 reviews
GUARDS!
Fantasy action where city guards turn everyday objects into weapons
67% positive
431 reviews
Nice Jumper
A free-to-play neon platformer about climbing as high as possible
82% positive
Free