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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Loophole
Grid-based puzzle game about working with your past selves
99% positive
161 reviews
Demo In Between
A gravity-shifting puzzle platformer about coming to terms with death
85% positive
160 reviews
In Game Adventure: Legend of Monsters
Top-down arena shooter with randomized levels and monster-clearing combat
76% positive
Free
Sig.NULL
Block-pushing puzzles with drone abilities and hidden rules to uncover
72% positive
Free
JASEM: Just Another Shooter with Electronic Music
A top-down twin-stick shooter pairing robot battles with electronic music
67% positive
159 reviews
Stay Alive: Apocalypse
First-person zombie survival RPG with randomly generated cities
52% positive
159 reviews
Uventa
First-person horror with puzzles and a night shift gone wrong
48% positive
159 reviews
That Flipping Mountain
A physics-based precision platformer about flipping up one continuous mountain
89% positive
159 reviews
Quantum Odyssey
Quantum computing puzzle game built around visual logic gates
93% positive
159 reviews
iBomber Defense Pacific
Tower defense with surprise attacks from jungle and sea
86% positive
158 reviews
Draw Rider
Side-scrolling racing with destructible bikes and ragdoll crash physics
72% positive
158 reviews
Demo Stayin' Alive
First-person team competition between suicidal retirees and life-saving nurses
67% positive
158 reviews
Flappatron
A visual novel with bullet hell battles inside your mind
94% positive
158 reviews
Demo Gordian Rooms 2: A curious island
First-person puzzle adventure across an island estate and its labyrinths
72% positive
158 reviews
Survivor Mercs
A squad-building survival roguelite with randomized commanders and extraction
63% positive
158 reviews
Skigill
Top-down survival roguelike where the battlefield is your skill tree
76% positive
158 reviews
Super Switch
A platformer where switching dimensions changes your route past traps
78% positive
157 reviews
Escape Doodland
An auto-running platformer with a monster chase and fart-powered boosts
81% positive
157 reviews
Climber: Sky is the Limit
First-person mountaineering simulation about reaching summits while surviving harsh weather
69% positive
157 reviews
MEGAJUMP
Precision 3D platformer where charged jumps trade distance for height
78% positive
Free
Demo Street Legal 1: REVision
Street-racing simulation with hands-on car building and costly crashes
84% positive
157 reviews
Spiders Everywhere
Side-scrolling action platformer where spider positions change between attempts
76% positive
Free
Demo Death In Abyss
Third-person flight shooter pitting you against deep-sea alien creatures
82% positive
157 reviews
Re:Flex
Mouse-driven rhythm action with targets to hit and hazards to dodge
87% positive
157 reviews