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5213 gamesSteam releases tagged Difficult. Tags come from community voting on SteamSpy and reflect how players actually describe the game.
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In the last 30 days, 3 new difficult games released on Steam (8 over the last 90 days). 333 are listed as free-to-play.

Chaos Town
Chaos Town is a top-down shooter focused on fast-paced combat, character progression, and fully destructible environments.
29 May, 2017

Catacombs 1: Demon War
Catacombs 1: Demon War is the first of a 3-chapter RPG/Adventure that puts you into the shoes of a brave young hero, building your strength to face long-buried secrets, deception and betrayal.
12 Jul, 2017

Alter World
Enter the Alter World, a mysterious parallel reality where the rules are different and every step brings new challenges. Inspired by Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Alter World is a 2D platformer built around a unique mechanic that allows you to switch between two realities at any time to overcome obstacles, solve puzzles, and progress...
29 May, 2015

Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
In a world much like our own, Tenshi sets out to uncover the evil threatening the balance of nature, joined by an eccentric cast of characters along the way.
12 May, 2015

Symphonia
Awaken an expansive musical realm in this non-violent and poetic platformer. In Symphonia, you'll use the power of your violin coupled with your platforming skills to gather an orchestra to bring the musical machinery of the world back to life.
5 Dec, 2024

The Chef's Shift
The Chef’s Shift is a fast-paced typing game in a restaurant setting, where you’ll both cook & serve food to hungry customers, all done by TYPING.
31 Mar, 2025

PSIONIC
PSIONIC is a 2D shooter set in a haunted psychiatric hospital. As the sole survivor, a trapped scientist, your mission is to escape while battling mutated creatures. Survive, fight, and find a way out. Can you make it?
20 Nov, 2020

Choo-Choo! The Train Rides!
How long can you keep a runaway locomotive on the tracks? React to quick time events as the speed climbs, survive longer than you did last run, and chase your friends' scores on the global leaderboards. Easy to learn, brutal to master.
10 Aug, 2020

Smash
This game takes you into the mysterious world, where each level is striking in its beauty and harmony. You have to explore it.
15 Jul, 2022

Snakeloop
Snakeloop is a challenging puzzle game based on a simple idea: What if you took classic Snake but inverted the goal and made it so you have to form a loop by eating your own tail.
28 Mar, 2025

Sun's Edge
In the jungles and deserts of a decaying world, Machete chooses to spend his final days in the realm of Aztec deities and monsters. He must trail blaze into the Crimson corruption, fight bosses, solve puzzles, and find the Crystal Shards before his world is consumed… and his brother is lost forever.
19 Apr, 2023

Melon Simulator™
Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon horde...
30 Jun, 2025

Super Hydorah
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
20 Sep, 2017

Lake of Creatures
Difficult action FISHING ROGUELIKE, where you slaughter mutated creatures with weapons that shoot lasers and explosions!!! 💥 Catch fish to buy treasures that MODIFY YOUR BUILD and end up with CRAZY SYNERGIZING ATTACKS that melt those noob enemies
15 Nov, 2024

ULTRAKILL
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
3 Sep, 2020

Windblown
A lightning-fast 1–3 player co-op roguelite from the creators of Dead Cells. DASH, DIVE and DESTROY across a shattered world. Build wild loadouts, unleash devastating Alterattacks, and become the last stand against the Vortex.
24 Oct, 2024

Backbeat
A mashup of puzzle and strategy games. Manipulate four threads of time to guide your band through sokoban-style puzzles. Manage squad resources over a set of limited turns. Experience a homage to 1990s ensemble dramedies. Customize the dynamic soundtrack with audio effects.
15 Mar, 2023

SOK MIN
SOK MIN is the smallest and the easiest levels of SOK puzzle. Now you may not need a guide to complete each level. Just try it!
18 Apr, 2018

SOK MAX
SOK MAX is the sequel of the SOK puzzle. Now there are more boxes on each level.
12 Feb, 2018

SOK
SOK is a sokoban classic puzzle game. The goal of the game is to move all the boxes to their positions. It's not as easy as it seems. The player can push one box at a time, but do not pull it off.
22 Dec, 2017

4 Classes, Many Paths
Enter an Awesome Open World, Single-Player RPG focused on Crafting and Creativity. A world full of Ancient Secrets; With dragons, demons, and deep dungeons waiting for you. Inspired by classic RPGs like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind.
31 Jan, 2026

The Wind's Path
A top-down platformer that rewards constant movement. Run to fill up your flow meter. Flow is used to power up various powerful wind attacks that you can also use to speed through 7 challenging expansive worlds.
11 Mar, 2025

Ligo
Explore a mysterious non-linear world filled with puzzles and secrets. Make small creatures work together to lift the curse and reconnect the world.
4 Mar, 2025

Dustland
Dustland is a reimagined take on the survival genre. A world where expeditions, looting, and battles are just the tip of the iceberg, hiding secrets and mysteries of a fallen region in its depths.
9 Dec, 2024

Journey To The Wand
Elowen and her lazy pet, Marshy, embark on a quest to retrieve her wand, providing players with a unique adventure. The compelling story of the game will captivate players from beginning to end.
20 Dec, 2023

Gentoo Rescue
A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
22 May, 2025

Deathstreak
Deathstreak is a first-person melee action game where everyone dies in a single hit. Experience an environmental, non-intrusive storytelling approach as you fight your way through enemies and uncover the secrets of the world around you.
12 Dec, 2023

Ominoflux
A fast-paced and unique block-stacking game where you clear lines by mastering the Flux, a fluctuation entity that either creates or destroys blocks. Can you tame the wild grids of Ominoflux?
23 Oct, 2024

Victim
You are invited into the world of The Ominous Oppression. A desolate landscape of horrors and mental anguish. A place where only the mentally strong can survive and overcome the seemingly endless relentless trials of perpetuating devastation while your own mind fights against you.
19 May, 2022

Blast Rush Classic
Blasting is everything in this infinite-bomb shoot-em-up!
4 May, 2020

Jump Off The Bridge
An absurd retro-platformer that tests your patience.
1 May, 2019

Risk of Rain 2
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
11 Aug, 2020

RAYZE
RAYZE is an AIM RACER. Hit a target to accelerate. Miss and you slow down. Hit a wall and lose. Find the fastest route. Get to the finish line. Simple? Yes. Easy? Hell no. Ready? 3... 2... 1... Let's RAYZE!
22 Oct, 2021

CROSSBOW: Bloodnight
CROSSBOW: Bloodnight is a frantic score-attack arena shooter set in a world of camp horror and gore. Master the occult powers of your automatic crossbow and fight for every second of survival against a relentless demonic horde! Hunt. Die. Hunt again.
24 Sep, 2020

Hostile Lands
With loads of weapons and unique skills, rescue your crewmates and blast your way off of a savage planet filled with ruthless bandits and blood-thirsty, bone-crunching, flesh-tearing monsters. Just be aware, every successful escape cranks up the hostility toward those left behind.
22 May, 2025

The Way Home
Drive safely home in a country where even the tiniest tap with your car can put you on death row.
1 Jun, 2021

9 Kings
A fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder. Grow your empire and fight massive battles against powerful rival kings. Break the game with thousands of insane builds to become the King of Kings.
23 May, 2025

Beats Of Fury
Shoot to the beat in this rhythm bullet hell where every shot creates music. Turn any song into a rhythm-bullet-hell epic battle.
10 Jun, 2026

Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Havsala is an investigative puzzle game with rich storytelling full of historical references and mysticism. Search the room for the clues left behind by the previous reincarnations of a single soul, solve the puzzles and unravel the mystery.
21 Jun, 2022

スペルトナエル
Embark on a 20-day adventure with Two, a reclusive girl. Cast spells in real time using a Japanese kana chart in this innovative new system. Master a vast variety of spells—and break the world! A mystery-driven, hardcore deck-building roguelike with kana-based spellcasting, and bullet-hell action!
13 Sep, 2024

The Shadow Government Simulator
A turn-based strategy game where you lead a secret society towards world domination. Investigate the influential and convert them to your faction via bribery, seduction and intimidation. Reshape society's power structures to fend off rival societies and the world's nations in your quest for power.
17 Oct, 2022

Destropolis
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
19 Aug, 2020

Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
30 Jul, 2019

Archtower
Archtower is a mixture of ARPG and Roguelite. Explore the mysterious Tower, build your characters, improve and develop your clan. Use different skills from power crystals to optimize your builds. And try to survive. But don't worry, the game gives you options to keep your life and loot on defeat.
30 Sep, 2022

Lucky Tower Ultimate
Escape from an incredibly dangerous, randomly generated tower in a slapstick, roguelite adventure that looks like a cartoon and feels like a joke. Slashy slashy!
16 Apr, 2026

WAR RATS: The Rat em Up
The rats told me to make this game. Run and gun alongside your troops in the Great Rat War against the vile TechnoRat armies. Recruit units, build structures, collect gear and upgrade your weapons to turn the tide of battle in your favor. The TechnoRat is all consuming!
20 Nov, 2025

Stoneshard
Stoneshard is a hardcore turn-based RPG about the harsh life of a medieval mercenary: travel with your own caravan, descend into procedurally generated dungeons, learn new skills, survive hunger and injuries - and remember, every mistake can mean death and loss of progress.
6 Feb, 2020

The Knowledge of Hermit
A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.
24 Dec, 2023

Lorn's Lure
An android is led through a vast structure by a glitch in his visual system. Lorn's Lure is an atmospheric narrative first-person platformer with novel climb-anything mechanics and modernized retro 3D graphics.
20 Sep, 2024

Bloxolotl
Bloxolotl is a cozy puzzle game all about cute block-shaped Axolotls and connecting them together.
27 Jan, 2025