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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Rabi Ribi
Bunny girl with a hammer, what could go wrong. Well, a lot, I suppose. Somehow all the bunnies have disappeared and Erina, our protagonist, has turned into a bunny girl instead of a bunny? Whats going on? Whats this bunny phenomenon thats making every other girl on the island try to capture you? Guess you’ll…
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Taiji
Ever since I finished The Witness for the first time back in 2017, I’ve been looking for a puzzle game that follows that same formula, and this year I found it with Taiji. Instead of being a first person puzzle game about completing puzzle panels where you fill in the edges, this is a top-down…
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The Room
Yet another bundle of games, each with the same premise and controls. The Room is a series of point & click puzzle games with an overarching plot told through notes left behind by the people you’re trying to track down. The series starts off simple enough, you start with a box, and you have to…
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Filament
This is a brutally hard puzzle game, where the main mechanic involves controlling a small robot to wrap wires around pylons to open the exit. There are a dozen or so puzzle mechanics, which are each isolated to one set of puzzles, and introduced at the start of the set. Solving puzzles gives you more…
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Patrick’s Parabox
Take a look at the thumbnail image. That will tell you almost everything you need to know about this infinite Sokoban game.
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Death’s Door
A cute little game similar to Hyper Light Drifter, with a bit more of a concrete story. You play as a reaper, a cute little crow who’s job is to reap the souls of the dead to bring them to the afterlife, and to do that you have a few weapons at your disposal that…
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A Dance Of Fire And Ice + Neo Cosmos
ADOFAI is the first true rhythm game on my list and wow it certainly is something. The gameplay is incredibly simple, one of the simplest forms of input in the most versatile genre of games: one button. You press one button, any button, in time with the path you’re following. Doesn’t have to be the…
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Tunic
Fox game fox game fox game. So in this game you play as a fox, and this makes me happy because I like foxes, foxes are the best little critters, and I may or may not be a fox irl writing game reviews by bashing my pointy snoot against the keyboard. That being said: Steam:…
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One Step From Eden
If you’ve ever played a MegaMan Battle Network game and enjoyed the combat of it, then I implore you to pick this game up, as it’s just MMBN battles distilled into the perfect roguelike. Once you’ve picked a starting kit consisting of a weapon, a passive ability, and 4 spells, each battle lets you take…
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Katana ZERO
A 2D hack-and-slash where you play as a sword boy who murders a lot of people. It’s like, what if Hotline Miami 1 is a side scrolly ninja game instead of an overhead shooter game. The gimmick though, is that you can slow down time to perform incredible stunts like reflecting bullets with your sword…
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Hyper Light Drifter
My boy! My wonderful beautiful handsome swordy boye! So this game is a pretty tricky combat and exploration adventure game set in a beautiful sci-fi futuristic world. You have to fight your way through various areas and enemies in order to collect fragments that are used to power the towers that open the final boss.…
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Baba Is You
Baba Is You is a Sokoban-like puzzle game, where the rules of the game are written on the blocks that you push. You play as Baba, a cute sheep critter, but not always, sometimes you play as a robot, or as a box, or as a wall, or well, you could be anything, it all…