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These are the best Difficult games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Difficult games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Difficult fans genuinely keep coming back to.

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Hollow Knight: Silksong beats 85%

Slay the Spire 2 beats 85%

DARK SOULS™ III beats 79%

DOOM Eternal beats 79%

Hades beats 78%

DARK SOULS™ II beats 88%

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth beats 77%

Slay the Spire beats 78%

Hollow Knight beats 77%

Risk of Rain 2 beats 77%

Pathologic 2 beats 90%

ULTRAKILL beats 76%

Noita beats 77%

Darkest Dungeon® beats 76%

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED beats 76%

Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition beats 76%

Gothic II: Gold Edition beats 77%

Get To Work beats 88%

Nine Sols beats 80%

Enter the Gungeon beats 76%

Devil May Cry HD Collection beats 83%

Monster Hunter: World beats 74%

Celeste beats 73%

Ghostrunner 2 beats 93%

PAPERHEAD EP.0 beats 85%

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number beats 74%

Blasphemous 2 beats 85%

GRIME beats 85%

Pizza Tower beats 77%

METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE beats 73%

RaceRoom Racing Experience beats 76%

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition beats 74%

Jotun: Valhalla Edition beats 82%

Wall World beats 75%

Outward Definitive Edition beats 76%

Salt and Sanctuary beats 78%

Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition beats 74%

Post Void beats 80%

Peggle Deluxe beats 77%

Concrete Jungle beats 85%

Oxygen Not Included beats 72%

Mafia beats 71%

Party Hard beats 79%

Don't Starve beats 69%

Ravenswatch beats 72%

Ghostrunner beats 73%

Thumper beats 81%

You Have to Win the Game beats 81%

Intravenous 2 beats 81%

Diplomacy is Not an Option beats 81%

Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy beats 73%

Stoneshard beats 80%

UFO 50 beats 80%

Biped beats 78%

Castlevania Anniversary Collection beats 78%

Skul: The Hero Slayer beats 71%

Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation beats 73%

Devil May Cry 5 beats 67%

SULFUR beats 72%

SUPERHOT beats 65%

Just Shapes & Beats beats 76%

The Witness beats 68%

Super Hexagon beats 68%

Helltaker beats 65%

DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin beats 64%

The Evil Within beats 75%

Dark Devotion beats 75%

FlatOut beats 74%

Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove beats 67%

Windblown beats 72%

Resident Evil beats 62%

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell® beats 71%

Poly Bridge 2 beats 70%

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes beats 62%

ARMORED CORE™ VI FIRES OF RUBICON™ beats 69%

Trackmania United Forever beats 68%

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition beats 60%

Curse of the Dead Gods beats 68%

PAC-MAN™ CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION 2 beats 67%

Desperados III beats 61%

Muse Dash beats 59%

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams beats 65%

SpaceChem beats 63%

Cairn beats 64%

Returnal™ beats 64%

Balatro beats 57%

Awaria beats 63%

Lies of P beats 57%

Baba Is You beats 59%

Manifold Garden beats 60%

Catherine Classic beats 60%

Hotline Miami beats 56%

Dustforce DX beats 60%

Human Resource Machine beats 59%

XCOM: Enemy Unknown beats 56%

Return of the Obra Dinn beats 59%

CODE VEIN beats 56%

Ultra Street Fighter® IV beats 59%

Resident Evil 0 beats 59%

Poly Bridge beats 56%

Quake Champions beats 56%

Bloons TD 5 beats 59%

FTL: Faster Than Light beats 55%

BPM: BULLETS PER MINUTE beats 56%

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus® beats 59%

Geometry Dash beats 55%

Final DOOM beats 59%

Death's Gambit: Afterlife beats 56%

Mortal Shell beats 58%

60 Seconds! Reatomized beats 56%

Bread & Fred beats 58%

Cuphead beats 55%

Don't Starve Together beats 54%

Intravenous beats 55%

DiRT Rally beats 54%

Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2 (2003 re-release) beats 57%

The Last Remnant™ beats 55%

Bloons TD 6 beats 53%

Darksburg beats 56%

Motorsport Manager beats 55%

BAZOOKA: Rhythm Game beats 56%

Mushroom 11 beats 55%

SANABI beats 55%

Patrick's Parabox beats 55%

The Dungeon Of Naheulbeuk: The Amulet Of Chaos beats 55%

TrackMania Nations Forever beats 53%

Steam Engine Simulator beats 54%

Insurgency: Sandstorm beats 53%

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy beats 53%

Hyper Light Drifter beats 53%

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun beats 54%

Risk of Rain (2013) beats 53%

The Talos Principle beats 54%

Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game beats 54%

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 beats 54%

Manhunt beats 53%

Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee® beats 53%

Titan Souls beats 53%

Dota 2 beats 51%

Octodad: Dadliest Catch beats 52%

7 Billion Humans beats 51%

Knights and Merchants beats 51%

TEKKEN 7 beats 51%

Nothing beats 51%

No Time To Explain Remastered beats 50%

Gloomhaven beats 50%

Monster Train beats 50%

12 is Better Than 6 beats 50%

Rogue Legacy 2 beats 50%

Tiny Rogues beats 50%

Deadlink beats 50%

SUPERHOT: MIND CONTROL DELETE beats 50%

Battlerite beats 50%

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows beats 49%

Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition beats 49%

Clustertruck beats 49%

Star Saviors beats 48%

Plague Inc: Evolved beats 49%

Blasphemous beats 49%

Dungreed beats 47%

Valheim beats 48%

Legend of Grimrock 2 beats 47%

OLDTV beats 46%

Project CARS 2 beats 47%

Rift of the NecroDancer beats 46%

Eldest Souls beats 47%

Game Dev Tycoon beats 47%

Hitman: Codename 47 beats 46%

Welcome to the Game II beats 45%

GUILTY GEAR Xrd REV 2 beats 45%

DEFCON beats 44%

Dead Bits beats 44%

LUFTRAUSERS beats 44%

Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager beats 45%

Quake Live beats 44%

FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S: HELP WANTED beats 43%

Timberman beats 44%

Steelrising beats 45%

One Finger Death Punch beats 43%

La-Mulana beats 43%

SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell beats 42%

Antichamber beats 42%

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander beats 43%

Hacker Evolution beats 43%

Katana ZERO beats 44%

10 Second Ninja X beats 40%

Frozen Synapse beats 40%

Hello Neighbor Pre-Alpha beats 39%

Mitos.is: The Game beats 43%

The Escapists beats 42%

5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel beats 42%

Infectonator 3: Apocalypse beats 38%

The Binding of Isaac beats 44%

Hitman 2: Silent Assassin beats 38%

DRAGON BALL FighterZ beats 38%

Rain World beats 43%

Nuclear Throne beats 41%

Super Meat Boy beats 42%

Blender beats 43%

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator beats 42%

LIMBO beats 42%

Jump King beats 39%

A Difficult Game About Climbing beats 38%

Cortex Command beats 39%

Teleglitch: Die More Edition beats 39%

Unforgiving Trials: The Darkest Crusade beats 35%

The Surge beats 35%

Magicite beats 38%

Bomber Crew beats 35%

Immortal Redneck beats 38%

Hello Neighbor Alpha 1 beats 36%

GUNTOUCHABLES beats 37%

Hitman: Absolution™ beats 40%

Super Crate Box beats 37%

LIZARDS MUST DIE beats 32%

Five Nights at Freddy's beats 37%

Downwell beats 34%

BLACKHOLE beats 30%

Bit Blaster XL beats 35%

Bridge Constructor Portal beats 36%

Disfigure beats 30%

Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ beats 38%

100% Orange Juice beats 34%

UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH Exe:Late[cl-r] beats 29%

Receiver beats 28%

Never Split the Party beats 32%

Desktop Dungeons beats 32%

Beat Saber beats 33%

BARRIER X beats 33%

DiRT Rally 2.0 beats 34%

Changed beats 27%

The Basement Collection beats 27%

Hello Neighbor beats 35%

Aseprite beats 34%

VVVVVV beats 33%

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle beats 25%

Barotrauma beats 35%

Anomaly: Warzone Earth beats 25%

Outland beats 25%

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location beats 24%

SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising beats 24%

They Are Billions beats 28%

HELLCARD beats 23%

Invisible, Inc. beats 23%

Intralism beats 23%

Spelunky 2 beats 23%

EVE Online beats 34%

The Deer beats 27%

Starseed Pilgrim beats 22%

Snake Pass beats 26%

A Dance of Fire and Ice beats 30%

HYPER DEMON beats 21%

Alien: Isolation beats 29%

Hand Simulator beats 20%

Ultimate Custom Night beats 34%

Tower Wars beats 20%

OlliOlli World beats 19%

DETOUR beats 19%

Terraforming Mars beats 24%

GUILTY GEAR XX ACCENT CORE PLUS R beats 23%

RUINER beats 18%

RONIN beats 23%

Absolver beats 23%

60 Seconds! beats 25%

They Bleed Pixels beats 16%

Mini Thief beats 15%

HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition beats 24%

POSTAL beats 26%

Pizza Connection 3 beats 15%

Surgeon Simulator beats 23%

The Flame in the Flood beats 26%

Nioh: Complete Edition beats 23%

Spelunky beats 24%

Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014 beats 26%

Crypt of the NecroDancer beats 24%

Fear & Hunger beats 20%

Far Far West beats 20%

Gambonanza beats 9%

Death Fungeon beats 8%

Wizard of Legend beats 19%

Loading Screen Simulator beats 24%

Please, Don’t Touch Anything beats 6%

Realm of the Mad God Exalt beats 24%

PAYDAY™ The Heist beats 23%

McOsu beats 12%

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