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
1,203 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Devil Daggers
First-person arena shooter about surviving endless waves of demons
95% positive
9,498 reviews
Slender: The Arrival
First-person survival horror about collecting pages while evading Slender Man
88% positive
9,358 reviews
Curse of the Dead Gods
Isometric action roguelike with traps, darkness, and changing curses
83% positive
9,233 reviews
Elin
Open-world roguelike RPG with crafting, survival, and town building
93% positive
9,216 reviews
METAL SLUG 3
Side-scrolling arcade shooter with branching stages and co-op missions
90% positive
9,186 reviews
UBERMOSH
Fast-paced cyberpunk arcade shooter built around slicing incoming bullets
92% positive
9,096 reviews
Overgrowth
Martial arts action game with rabbit parkour and physics-based fights
81% positive
9,092 reviews
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Arcade first-person shooter against enemy hordes in ancient Egypt
93% positive
9,016 reviews
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Chess variant with time-travel moves and branching timelines
97% positive
8,985 reviews
Grim Fandango Remastered
Noir point-and-click adventure about a travel agent for the dead
91% positive
8,933 reviews
Wildfrost
Roguelike deckbuilder with tactical positioning and timed automatic attacks
83% positive
8,854 reviews
DOOM 64
Single-player first-person shooter hunting demons through abandoned Mars facilities
93% positive
8,842 reviews
Total Tank Simulator
World War II battle simulator with deployable armies and playable units
79% positive
8,776 reviews
Partisans 1941
World War II stealth tactics with squad missions and camp management
82% positive
8,768 reviews
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
Old-school action-adventure trilogy built around exploration, puzzles, and platforming
85% positive
8,634 reviews
Downwell
Fast-paced 2D platformer with gunboots and procedurally generated levels
97% positive
8,631 reviews
Loading Screen Simulator
A free clicker game built around a loading screen
87% positive
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Astral Ascent
Side-scrolling action roguelite about escaping a guarded astral prison
95% positive
8,588 reviews
Manifold Garden
First-person puzzle adventure in looping spaces with shifting gravity
95% positive
8,572 reviews
Jotun: Valhalla Edition
Hand-drawn Norse action adventure with exploration and giant boss fights
77% positive
8,560 reviews
Mordheim: City of the Damned
Turn-based tactical RPG about rival warbands hunting valuable Wyrdstone
70% positive
8,455 reviews
We Who Are About To Die
Gladiator roguelite with directional combat and one life per run
88% positive
8,355 reviews
Cave Story+
2D action platformer with upgradeable weapons and multiple endings
93% positive
8,342 reviews
Dead Bits
First-person shooter with cube aliens, guns, and traps
59% positive
8,332 reviews