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.
Chip's Challenge 1
Top-down puzzle game with timed mazes, movable blocks, and traps
90% positive
Free
RAD
3D action roguelike with mutations in a radioactive wasteland
74% positive
970 reviews
Old School Musical
Retro rhythm adventure with chiptune tracks and game parodies
92% positive
969 reviews
Mech Engineer
Mech-building strategy simulation with resource management and semi-automated battles
74% positive
967 reviews
Phoenix Force
Top-down bullet hell shooter built entirely around boss battles
84% positive
962 reviews
Shady Knight
First-person action game mixing parkour, swordplay, and style scoring
94% positive
961 reviews
aMAZE 2
Single-player maze puzzler guiding a ball through growing labyrinths
86% positive
954 reviews
Cypher
First-person museum puzzle game about cracking historical ciphers
90% positive
953 reviews
Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
Turn-based roguelike dungeon crawler with shifting floors and harsh losses
76% positive
950 reviews
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding
Downhill skiing game with procedurally generated mountains and trick-based scoring
96% positive
948 reviews
Help Will Come Tomorrow
Survival strategy in Siberia with scarce supplies and class tensions
80% positive
944 reviews
X-COM: Terror From the Deep
Turn-based squad tactics against aliens beneath Earth's oceans
91% positive
943 reviews
Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX
Old-school 2D platformer with switchable retro and updated graphics
78% positive
943 reviews
Children of a Dead Earth
Space warfare strategy simulation built around orbital physics and ship design
90% positive
942 reviews
The Devil Within: Satgat
2D action platformer with demanding combat and demon powers
79% positive
929 reviews
Project Unknown
First-person co-op horror about finding cursed objects and exorcising ghosts
83% positive
925 reviews
Bionic Bay
2D sci-fi puzzle platformer built around physics and position swapping
85% positive
922 reviews
BLUE REVOLVER
2D bullet-hell shooter built around special weapons and scoring chains
98% positive
913 reviews
Ding Dong XL
One-button arcade score chaser built on dodging moving obstacles
97% positive
907 reviews
The Unliving
Dark fantasy action roguelite about raising and commanding undead armies
62% positive
900 reviews
Puyo Puyo Champions
Competitive puzzle game about building chains in multiplayer matches
80% positive
897 reviews
Mud and Blood
Top-down World War II squad tactics across procedurally generated battlefields
87% positive
892 reviews
Ludus
Gladiator school simulation about training fighters and managing trade
69% positive
888 reviews
Toodee and Topdee
Puzzle platformer that switches between side-view and top-down play
93% positive
874 reviews