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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Stray Blade
Souls-inspired action RPG where combat victories change the surrounding world
69% positive
332 reviews
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun
A two-button platformer where you fly by firing downward
87% positive
331 reviews
Regimental Chess
Chess-based strategy matches built around moving pieces in formations
55% positive
330 reviews
Fidel Dungeon Rescue
A dungeon puzzler about a dog that cannot cross its trail
95% positive
330 reviews
Gladiator School
Gladiator management simulation about training fighters and arranging arena bouts
67% positive
329 reviews
Demo Cogs
Sliding-tile puzzles where gears and pipes become working machines
90% positive
328 reviews
World of Subways 4 – New York Line 7
Subway simulator on the mostly elevated tracks of New York
68% positive
328 reviews
Drift Phonk 666
Physics-based arcade drifting with deadly saws and no brakes
91% positive
328 reviews
Coal Mining Simulator: Prologue
A mining sandbox where coal sales pay for new machines
65% positive
Free
Hack, Slash, Loot
Turn-based dungeon crawler with a new layout every run
56% positive
327 reviews
Orakyubu
Box-pushing puzzles spread across cube faces in three-dimensional space
98% positive
Free
Alice Escaped!
A Wonderland action metroidvania built around a hammer-and-gun tag team
79% positive
326 reviews
Pid
A puzzle platformer built around placing and riding gravity beams
69% positive
324 reviews
Within the blade
A ninja action platformer mixing stealth attacks with direct combat
86% positive
324 reviews
Helskate
Skateboarding action roguelite mixing arcade tricks with hack-and-slash combat
69% positive
324 reviews
Plan A
Top-down squad tactics built around planning before the shooting starts
88% positive
Free
Theta and Paralldox on Worldlines
Logic puzzles built around splitting yourself and exploring parallel worlds
97% positive
324 reviews
Craftlings
A strategy puzzle game about directing workers and linking production
86% positive
323 reviews
Skautfold: Usurper
Metroidvania action RPG where precise dodges restore your defenses
67% positive
322 reviews
CRIMSON METAL Classic 1999
A retro first-person shooter about escaping trap-filled weapons facilities
50% positive
322 reviews
Reaper - Tale of a Pale Swordsman
Side-scrolling action RPG where you choose which warring factions to help
74% positive
321 reviews
Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Side-scrolling mech shooter that combines gunfire with melee attacks
93% positive
321 reviews
Demo Rage in Peace
Side-scrolling platformer with surprise traps on a final journey home
88% positive
320 reviews
Demo Pale Coins
An action RPG where equipment grants spells and movement abilities
93% positive
320 reviews