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
3,498 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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The Altered Lands
Dark fantasy action RPG with Souls-style combat and stealth
61% positive
Free
Demo Shapebreaker - Tower Defense Deckbuilder
Tower defense deckbuilder where your towers double as a maze
81% positive
64 reviews
Demo MOMIBOSU
Precision 2D platformer with exploration and enemies you knock together
91% positive
64 reviews
Canto I
A precision platformer retelling the opening of The Divine Comedy
77% positive
Free
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Constracktion
Railway construction puzzler where a train lays its own tracks
64% positive
64 reviews
The Uninvited: MacVenture Series
First-person horror adventure with puzzles inside a haunted mansion
86% positive
63 reviews
Straima
A precision platformer combining fast movement with puzzle solving
86% positive
63 reviews
Demo HoPiKo
A speedrunning platformer about chaining jumps and beating target times
86% positive
63 reviews
Paradox Soul
A 2D Metroidvania shooter with cover, dashes, and suit upgrades
48% positive
63 reviews
Dark Old Sun
A space shoot-'em-up with free aiming and adjustable difficulty
92% positive
Free
cityglitch
Turn-based puzzles with chess-like movement across tiny rooftop grids
98% positive
Free
Chocolate makes you happy 3
A physics puzzler about balancing cookies amid sweets and explosions
81% positive
63 reviews
Demo Paradox Vector
Retro first-person shooter through mazes that defy normal geometry
81% positive
63 reviews
Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell
One-button bullet hell where survival depends on well-timed direction changes
95% positive
63 reviews
Demo Time Master
A 3D puzzle platformer where you cooperate with your past self
95% positive
63 reviews
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PINK ELEPHANT
Top-down arcade shooter with upgradeable weapons and a hidden cult
89% positive
63 reviews
ASCIILL
A dungeon crawler mixing number-based trap puzzles with alien combat
92% positive
63 reviews
Gregory Horror Show: Soul of Roses
A 2D action roguelite where stolen souls change your abilities
98% positive
63 reviews
PizzaBoy
A precision platformer about making pizza deliveries to monsters
97% positive
63 reviews
Noxious Weeds: Prologue
Top-down survival roguelite about defending a farm from corrupted vegetables
84% positive
Free
Veggie Quest: The Puzzle Game
A puzzle game about building dungeons that delay AI adventurers
94% positive
63 reviews
Armless Samurai
First-person parkour action as an armless samurai fighting with kicks
90% positive
Free
Demo Horse Runner DX
Arcade runner where a growing herd doubles as extra lives
94% positive
63 reviews
Demo Puzzle Depot
Box-pushing puzzle adventure through industrial ruins with interacting hazards
100% positive
63 reviews