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
3,499 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Devil Slayer - Raksasi
Top-down action roguelike with timed attacks and randomized dungeons
85% positive
2,861 reviews
Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures
Retro action platforming with crude humor and demanding jump-and-shoot levels
90% positive
2,854 reviews
The Flame in the Flood
Roguelike survival on a procedurally generated river through post-collapse America
75% positive
2,851 reviews
Valfaris
Sci-fi side-scrolling shooter with heavy metal and gory combat
82% positive
2,840 reviews
Drift Legends 2
Free-to-play arcade drifting with car collecting and cross-platform competition
81% positive
Free
Valor Mortis
First-person Souls-like action RPG set in a plague-ravaged Napoleonic Europe
80% positive
2,836 reviews
Gatekeeper
Top-down action roguelite with co-op and combinable artifacts
82% positive
2,829 reviews
Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition
2D action-platformer with wrestling combat across living and dead worlds
93% positive
2,821 reviews
ScourgeBringer
2D roguelite platformer built around fast dashes and attacks
87% positive
2,821 reviews
DEAD OR SCHOOL
Side-scrolling action RPG about reaching school through zombie territory
84% positive
2,817 reviews
Demo Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
2D rhythm bullet hell with local co-op and custom levels
95% positive
2,810 reviews
Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius
Visual novel and turn-based mech battles with squadmate relationships
92% positive
Free
Demo VOID/BREAKER
First-person roguelite shooter with customizable guns and destructible arenas
91% positive
2,771 reviews
GemCraft - Frostborn Wrath
Dark fantasy tower defense built around crafting and combining gems
88% positive
2,767 reviews
Will You Snail?
Precision platformer where an AI predicts your moves and places traps
97% positive
2,760 reviews
Demo Aethermancer
Creature-collecting roguelike built around three-monster teams and turn-based battles
91% positive
2,752 reviews
Fight'N Rage
2D arcade brawler with branching routes and local co-op
92% positive
2,734 reviews
Demo Hellpoint
Sci-fi Souls-like action RPG where a black hole changes encounters
75% positive
2,726 reviews
Demo Blades of Time
Third-person hack-and-slash adventure built around rewinding time in combat
79% positive
2,721 reviews
Electronic Super Joy
A precision platformer with electronic music and missile-filled obstacle courses
89% positive
2,715 reviews
Trackmania United Forever
Arcade racing across seven environments with time trials and track creation
94% positive
2,708 reviews
Party Hard 2
Top-down stealth strategy with traps for stopping noisy parties
78% positive
2,708 reviews
New Cycle
Post-apocalyptic city builder balancing survival and industrial production
77% positive
2,705 reviews
SpaceChem
Programming-style puzzle game about designing factories for chemical production
95% positive
2,698 reviews