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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Project Hunter
Stealth strategy about hunting humans as an evolving alien
70% positive
Free
Seeking Light
Isometric action adventure built around boss fights and environmental puzzles
65% positive
Free
Truxton 2
A vertical arcade shooter with enemy-tracking lasers and local co-op
84% positive
57 reviews
Swirl W@tch
Top-down stealth with ships concealed by a gas giant's clouds
98% positive
57 reviews
Frightened
Cooperative survival horror about collecting ritual items to destroy a demon
60% positive
57 reviews
PortalSnake
A puzzle game where portals resize, rotate, and duplicate snakes
100% positive
57 reviews
SHINONOME ABYSS The Maiden Exorcist
Survival horror dungeon crawler with traps and a danger-triggered transformation
77% positive
57 reviews
Demo Shift Quantum - A Cyber Noir Puzzle Platformer
A puzzle platformer where walls become paths by inverting space
80% positive
56 reviews
Infernal Radiation
Action RPG with demon battles tackled in your chosen order
79% positive
56 reviews
Crome: Before Purgatory
Retro space shooter with a boss that gains new attacks
89% positive
Free
Baby Walking Simulator
A one-button physics game about learning to walk
93% positive
56 reviews
Endless Knight
Medieval sword fighting where losing limbs doesn't end the fight
89% positive
56 reviews
Sokobos
A block-pushing puzzle game about building an ancient Greek temple
100% positive
56 reviews
Demo It's a Wrap!
2D puzzle platformer where you direct and perform movie stunts
79% positive
56 reviews
Repit
A precision puzzle platformer about escaping a supernatural punishment
88% positive
56 reviews
Demo FLASHOUT 3
Anti-gravity combat racing across looping tracks with guns and rockets
66% positive
56 reviews
Demo ACUVAC: A Suck and Blow Adventure
Physics-based cleaning adventure with a vacuum and deliberately awkward controls
98% positive
56 reviews
Ascending Inferno
A precision platformer about climbing Hell with a ball-shaped soul
98% positive
56 reviews
Demo Resultare
A physics-based pachinko roguelite built around high-scoring token combinations
93% positive
56 reviews
Demo Super reaKtor
Bullet hell survival with a movable, rotating, resizable laser beam
100% positive
56 reviews
Unaccessible
Precision platforming in a wheelchair on an island without ramps
95% positive
56 reviews
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SALVO
Tactical strategy sim about running an underground missile program
79% positive
56 reviews
Shadowgate: MacVenture Series
A first-person fantasy puzzle adventure with little room for error
75% positive
55 reviews
I Can't Escape: Darkness
A horror dungeon crawler where the maze changes after failure
78% positive
55 reviews