Tag: Difficult
Games that have either a steep learning curve, difficult to complete sections or high skill floor. The level of challenge may be more extreme than the average game.
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Tetris The Grand Master 4 – Absolute Eye
After just about 2 decades since the last installment, the hardest official Tetris game series got a new release on steam, and it’s pretty good.
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Nine Sols
Another combat focus metroidvania, except the Taopunk vibes are absolutely impeccable. Big world, small creature yadda yadda, though it’s not like you’re a nobody here like you are in Hallownest or Aorasque. You are Yi, one of the leaders here, exiled for 500 years.
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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus
A cute metroidvania about small but powerful creature in big world, if you like Ori or Hollow Knight, and have an interest in Japanese folklore, then this one is for you.
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14 Minesweeper Variants 2
Funny minesweeper exccept oh christ it got worse. Now with a new even harder* mode (which was back-ported to the origina, so thats quite nice.)
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Covemount (Collection)
A collection of cute little tiny sokoban games by Hempuli, the troll mastermind behind Baba Is You. Every game in the collection is free with a good number of very difficult levels, including some troll logic puzzles, but there are also some themes and mechanics that are consistent within the engine.
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EX-XDRiVER
Another free steam rhythm game? Oh you really do spoil us. XDRiVER is a rhythm game with all the styling of a futuristic racing game, the vibes indicate motorcycle racing, but the specifics don’t really matter too much because it’s ultimately a regular VSRG with some interesting scoring mechanics.
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Ato
Ninja cat metroidvania where you just want to find your kidnapped child and wife. With a whole story told without a single word in a large connected world of stunningly beautiful pixel art, this is definitely up there on the list of very good metroidvanias.
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VIVID/STASIS
From the casual rhythm game to a more intensive one, VIVID/STASIS looks like it’d play like Sound Voltex, but instead of being 6 key, it’s described by the developers as a “4 over 2 key game”. There is also a surprisingly compelling story with some particularly unique ARG elements and mysteries that have had my…
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The Talos Principle
So when I tell you that the team behind Serious Sam made another game, what genre are you thinking? Because personally, “philosophical puzzle game” is quite low on the list. So this is a philosophical puzzler with an overarching story. Like Portal but slightly more biblical.
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope detective game? Sign me up. You’re a surveyor for the East India Company who is investigating what happened on the Obra Dinn, which was declaired missing at sea in 1802, but after 5 years has drifted into port with no visible crew aboard. Your job is to figure out the identities and fates…
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Can of Wormholes
Yet another devilishly complex puzzle game with a simple premise and simple set of controls. Can of Wormholes is kind of a snake + Sokoban hybrid, a Snekoban if you will, where the goal is to get your snake into the hole. Your only controls are to move the head of the snake in one…
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Cracking The Cryptic
Sudoku. I’m surprised I haven’t posted any of these yet (other than Simon Tatham’s Puzzles, I suppose.) This is basically an almost complete mobile version of Sven’s SudokuPad (Steam, Web) and it does a really good job at all the stuff that you need to tackle really tricky puzzles. While this specific app doesn’t allow…