Top-Rated Free Difficult Games on Steam
136 free Difficult games with 500+ reviews and a 70%+ positive rating, newest first.
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Chronigma - Master time in this time-bending sokoban-like puzzle game with a story. You travel back in time to be in two places at once, to solve puzzles impossible to complete alone. Your success hinges on your ability to collaborate with yourself. Can you learn to manipulate time to save humanity?
Nov 25, 2025
Pathologic 3: Quarantine - In this free prologue to a narrative-driven adventure, watch a mysterious plague break out in a small town. Learn what drove a celebrated academic to leave his acclaimed lab. Examine patients, uncover strange secrets, and make first steps towards immortality.
Mar 17, 2025
Animal Jam - In Animal Jam, you can become your favorite animal, collect amazing items, adopt adorable pets, and create a style to express the real you as you explore the beautiful 3D world of Jamaa! 2017 Google Play Awards Winner ★ Best App for Kids
Jan 8, 2025
Awaria - Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.
Dec 16, 2024
PAPERHEAD EP.0 - In this cute cardboard world, something went horribly wrong... You wake up in a prison cell. A strange voice calls to you from the depths of dark corridors covered in runic symbols and blood. Reload your trusty shotgun and find out... WHY WOULD CARDBOARD... BLEED?
Nov 14, 2024
Chambers: The Outlaw - Take a bite of GETTING CHAMBERED in the Wild West: improvise to survive. Feed and take care of your horses. Open World with warring factions. Skills and upgrades: catch bullets, eat hats, summon bears. Revolver Monsters!
May 10, 2024
Akatori: Сhapter One - Join young Mako as she ventures into a wild world of exploration and finds a mysterious bird companion. Navigate through two distinct realms with your staff and face off against an ancient sentinel in this prologue to the action-packed metroidvania Akatori.
Apr 19, 2024
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX - A hololive fangame featuring Inugami Korone of hololive GAMERS! Collect as many Korone Boxes as possible while contending with an endless onslaught of enemies and bosses using whatever weapons you happen to pick up!
Apr 12, 2024
Intravenous 2: Mercenarism - Playing as Gideon, a cold-hearted mercenary willing to kill for money without any moral principles, you'll have tactical freedom with a wide variety of weapons and special gadgets to complete your mission in the prologue of Intravenous 2.
Jan 19, 2024
I Wanna Maker - I Wanna Maker is a precision platformer with a robust level editor and online level sharing, based on I Wanna Be The Guy fangames. Create complex levels using a variety of objects, a powerful events system, and customizable visuals. Browse levels online, take on challenge modes, and more!
Nov 9, 2023
Sim Companies - Build a business empire in a player-driven online economy. Manage supply chains, trade with thousands of players, dominate markets, research new products, and grow from a small startup into a global corporation.
Aug 31, 2023
Steam Engine Simulator - The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Jun 7, 2023
Quasimorph: End of Dream - Quasimorph: End of Dream is the first chapter of the extraction turn-based RPG Quasimorph. Confront your fears in brutal shootouts with PMC -fighters and demons and try to survive to complete your mission and bring the gear back to your spaceship!
May 31, 2023
SCP: Observer - SCP: Observer is a frightening experience in which you'll play the role of a maintenance engineer trapped inside a security room. Survive by managing the emergency power supply, monitoring the facility's camera system for threats and blocking the paths of oncoming horrors.
Apr 25, 2023
Shogun Showdown: Prologue - Fight the army of the Shogun in this free version of Shogun Showdown, a turn-based combat game with rogue-like and deck-building elements. Position yourself and attack at the right time, upgrade your tiles and combo them to get ready to face the Shogun!
Apr 4, 2023
Gatekeeper: Eclipse - Fast-paced rogue-lite shooter. Gatekeeper: Eclipse is a prologue ver. of the game Gatekeeper. Go on a quest to find the stolen Heart of the Universe and shoot your way through the hordes of machine enemies!
Feb 27, 2023
MuseSwipr - A rhythm game where you swipe between two lanes to the beat. Form your own flow and unleash your greatest swiping performance.
Dec 20, 2022
Perseus: Titan Slayer - Free Trial - Defeat the Titans as you battle your way into Tartarus to stop Chaos from conquering Olympus and destroying the world. In this rogue-like dungeon crawler adventure, you will play as Perseus, a demigod tasked with one mission; stop Chaos and the evil forces that surround him.
Nov 16, 2022
RUNGORE: Beginner Experience - Card game mechanics - check. Real time battles - check. Silly humor - check. If this isn't the game of your dreams i don't know what is (Also we have hidden memes everywhere lol)
Sep 2, 2022
Pixel Puzzles Ultimate Jigsaw Puzzles - The Number 1 Jigsaw Puzzle Game.
Aug 29, 2022
Quaver - Quaver is a community-driven and open-source competitive rhythm game with two game modes and online leaderboards. Create your own maps, or challenge the world in online multiplayer matches.
Aug 19, 2022
Quake Champions - Step into the Arena. Compete against players from around the world in this fast-paced shooter that combines the dark mythos of the original Quake with the skill-based competition of Quake III Arena. Become a Champion.
Aug 18, 2022
Mago: The Villain's Burger - Mago: The Villain's Burger is a retro 2D platformer that puts us in the boots of a sorcerer, who was unfortunate enough to eat evil overlord's food. Now he has to rescue his beloved princess from the dinner menu of the evil Gourmet! Nostalgia awaits!
Feb 7, 2022
Blind Fate: Edo no Yami — Dojo - Dive into a world that mixes Sci-Fi and ancient tradition. Slash through robots with a trusty katana, use hi-tech implants to navigate the surroundings, dodge enemy attacks, and land devastating finishers. Reclaim the past following the way of the Japanese samurai in the fantastic period of New Edo.
Dec 16, 2021
Bloons TD Battles 2 - From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
Nov 30, 2021
Dwerve: Prologue - Begin your apprenticeship as Dwerve! Tinker with a couple of the turrets! Meet your companions! Learn the basic strategies and tactics of turret-based combat. Hone your tower-defense dungeon-crawling skills so you're ready for the full game!
Sep 3, 2021
Dark Roll: Free Kick Challenge - A ball rolling game, where you take football free kicks. Single player challenges, Steam Leaderboards and ranked multiplayer. Free to play.
Aug 5, 2021
Quantum League - Quantum League is a revolutionary Time-Paradox Shooter: a competitive online FPS where you are battling within a time loop, tactically teaming up with your past and future selves in mind-blowing 1v1 and 2v2 matches.
Apr 15, 2021
I Am Your President: Prologue - I Am Your President: Prologue is a free narrative strategy simulator. Play as the previous US president, decide the fate of the world and run the country any way you like! Enjoy the unique storyline, make choices and carve your path to victory. Election Day is coming – can you secure your victory?
Dec 2, 2020
Shotgun Witch - Only armed with a double barrel shotgun, go through waves of hell spawns to get your book back! A bullet hell arena shooter!
Oct 24, 2020
Vecter - Get in your ship, push the throttle to max, and try not to die. Daily leaderboards where your name stays forever if you're good enough. Custom colors, custom music, YouTube in-game. It's free. What are you waiting for?
Oct 14, 2020
Raji: Prologue - Raji: An Ancient Epic is an action-adventure game set in ancient India. A young girl named Raji has been chosen by the gods to stand against the demonic invasion. She must use the powers granted to her by the gods to rescue her brother as she battles to face the demon lord Mahabalasura.
Oct 5, 2020
DDNet - Want to play the hardest cooperative 2D platformer ever? Want to finish no map ever? Want to be in pain for hours and cry, getting nothing in return? Come play DDNet with a large community of other sufferers!
Aug 17, 2020
A Night In Berlin - A Night in Berlin is a narrative-driven third-person shooter featuring brutal fast-paced gameplay in a dark and atmospheric world.
Aug 7, 2020
F1® 2020 - F1® 2020 allows you to create your F1® team for the very first time and race alongside the official teams and drivers. Alternatively, challenge your friends in new split-screen with casual race options for more relaxed racing. Compete on 22 circuits, with current and classic content.
Jul 9, 2020
GWENT: The Witcher Card Game - Command mighty Witcher-world heroes in epic online PvP card battles!
May 19, 2020
Micro Platformer - A minimalistic platformer with a 1x1 tileset. No enemies, no bullets, no lasers. Just sheer platforming.
Apr 21, 2020
West of Dead Beta - Descend into the grim and gritty world of Purgatory in this fast-paced cover shooter which combines the fluidity of twin-stick controls and tactical cover usage. Dodge behind cover as you try to outgun your enemies in the unknown procedurally generated hunting grounds.
Mar 31, 2020
Unbound: Worlds Apart Prologue - Unbound: Worlds Apart Prologue is an introduction for an upcoming 2D Metroidvania puzzle platformer where you can conjure different magic portals to travel between the worlds. Each portal gives you a unique ability to explore hand-crafted worlds and outsmart deadly creatures.
Mar 26, 2020
Stela - Stela is a cinematic, atmospheric platformer about a young woman witnessing the final days of a mysterious ancient world.
Mar 13, 2020
LOEK - LOEK is a FPS where the goal is to shoot farm animals with a rocket launcher.
Feb 10, 2020
Deep the Game - Welcome to the Deep: Pixelart platformer indie game located deep inside caves. You are a cave explorer who accidentally falls in a pit which leads to a big cave system. After some exploration, you find remains of an old civilization that used to live there and decide to explore it a little further.
Jan 11, 2020
Hellbound: Survival Mode - FULL GAME NOW AVAILABLE. GO GET IT! This is the Free Survival Mode for Hellbound: a '90s style First Person Shooter, made 30 years later… but just a glimpse of the full game, go check it out!
Nov 22, 2019
Frenzy Retribution - This hardcore hard style with high penalty and high reward requires players to deeply understand the complete motion system and various values, weapon activity, counterattack, enemy fury and execution, etc., with the uninterrupted fast-paced attack and defense of the enemy and the enemy, let the player experience Stimulating battle.
Nov 8, 2019
Hello Neighbor Alpha 3 - Alpha 3 of Hello Neighbor brought the first iteration of the large house. Hello Neighbor is a stealth horror game about sneaking into your creepy Neighbor's house.
Oct 17, 2019
Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 - This is Alpha 1 of Hello Neighbor, a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
Oct 12, 2019
Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha - The Original Pre-Alpha of Hello Neighbor, a Stealth Horror Game about sneaking into your neighbor's house and figuring out what he's hiding in the basement. Play against an advanced AI that learns from your actions.
Oct 10, 2019
Warfork - Warfork is a demanding fast paced first person shooter with a focus on speed, aim, movement, and above all competitive play.
Aug 16, 2019
