Best Rated Difficult Games Under $20
The best rated Difficult games on Steam for games under $20. Scores are weighted by review volume, so small-sample flukes stay off the list.
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Our score adjusts Steam's raw rating for sample size. The fewer reviews a game has, the more its score gets pulled toward the site-wide average, so a tiny game can't fluke its way to #1.
- 1Balatro192,69197.25%97.87%
- 2Slay the Spire213,06197.03%97.57%
- 3Bloons TD 6388,21296.90%97.20%
- 4The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth394,82996.89%97.19%
- 5Pizza Tower71,63996.74%98.32%
- 6Hollow Knight544,93196.71%96.92%
- 7Celeste141,89896.63%97.42%
- 8Resident Evil 2212,76396.52%97.04%
- 9Katana ZERO75,02196.47%97.95%
- 10Dead Cells180,44796.43%97.05%
- 11Hotline Miami122,44296.11%96.98%
- 12Oxygen Not Included140,81596.02%96.77%
- 13Papers, Please79,14495.96%97.30%
- 14Half-Life161,24895.86%96.51%
- 15Ori and the Will of the Wisps144,42395.81%96.53%
- 16Counter-Strike: Source191,54795.75%96.29%
- 17Cuphead211,39895.72%96.20%
- 18Outlast136,10395.70%96.46%
- 19Don't Starve112,70395.66%96.57%
- 20Chants of Sennaar31,25095.17%98.30%
- 21SANABI44,02595.08%97.28%
- 22DOOM218,67195.07%95.52%
- 23Don't Starve Together532,35594.84%95.02%
- 24Enter the Gungeon88,84194.21%95.20%
- 25Just Shapes & Beats25,50294.20%97.65%
- 26Noita87,16194.18%95.19%
- 27My Summer Car114,40294.17%94.94%
- 28Return of the Obra Dinn34,24594.14%96.69%
- 29Baba Is You24,16394.13%97.74%
- 30FTL: Faster Than Light78,05094.02%95.13%
- 31Clone Drone in the Danger Zone38,40893.94%96.16%
- 32Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition70,62193.90%95.10%
- 33Valheim535,06993.86%94.02%
- 34Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun38,26293.82%96.02%
- 35DOOM + DOOM II28,22393.72%96.64%
- 36Super Hexagon25,01693.60%96.88%
- 37Paint the Town Red32,02393.46%95.98%
- 38The Binding of Isaac62,39093.41%94.70%
- 39Game Dev Tycoon44,87593.41%95.20%
- 40LIZARDS MUST DIE26,46293.28%96.27%
- 41Resident Evil 4 (2005)95,73693.25%94.08%
- 42Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number77,89993.20%94.20%
- 43One Finger Death Punch16,32893.14%97.89%
- 44A Dance of Fire and Ice81,26893.13%94.09%
- 45Barotrauma86,85493.12%94.01%
- 46S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl47,95093.07%94.67%
- 47Plague Inc: Evolved62,90993.05%94.26%
- 48The Talos Principle32,81693.00%95.32%
- 49Geometry Dash605,41892.94%93.06%
- 50Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes16,87592.87%97.30%
- 51Kingdom Rush - Tower Defense16,58892.80%97.27%
- 52Crypt of the NecroDancer26,32692.72%95.51%
- 53Rain World52,26292.68%94.08%
- 54Touhou Luna Nights14,76692.57%97.36%
- 55Five Nights at Freddy's58,38992.55%93.78%
- 56Peggle Deluxe13,82392.53%97.61%
- 57Nuclear Throne19,58292.46%96.06%
- 58Super Meat Boy38,41592.43%94.26%
- 59Zup! S15,95792.41%96.82%
- 60ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights44,61692.25%93.79%
- 61Skul: The Hero Slayer57,21892.09%93.26%
- 62Hitman: Absolution62,21092.07%93.15%
- 63XCOM: Enemy Unknown58,26292.05%93.19%
- 64Mini Metro16,52792.05%96.07%
- 65DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT57,68392.04%93.19%
- 66Trombone Champ10,96892.01%97.94%
- 67ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist17,99791.87%95.40%
- 68PAYDAY The Heist40,86691.77%93.33%
- 69Post Void12,20691.69%96.85%
- 70Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game24,77391.67%94.21%
- 71Antichamber17,64691.60%95.12%
- 72Rabbit and Steel11,07991.56%97.12%
- 73Five Nights at Freddy's 225,74091.38%93.70%
- 7460 Seconds! Reatomized19,09291.31%94.41%
- 75LIMBO61,15791.30%92.27%
- 76Hacknet25,93191.28%93.55%
- 77Superflight11,56291.28%96.37%
- 78Kingdom Rush Frontiers - Tower Defense10,45091.19%96.75%
- 79Kindergarten10,27591.18%96.81%
- 80Risk of Rain (2013)29,81191.12%93.05%
- 81Muse Dash120,91991.01%91.48%
- 82VVVVVV10,45790.98%96.21%
- 83Tiny Rogues10,58390.97%96.25%
- 84Rabi-Ribi12,21690.85%95.33%
- 85Hook8,90690.84%96.96%
- 86Cat Goes Fishing16,10590.80%94.16%
- 87Resident Evil34,86990.75%92.29%
- 88Gothic II: Gold Edition17,33890.75%93.83%
- 89Hitman: Blood Money15,72690.71%94.09%
- 905D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel8,86890.65%96.58%
- 91Clustertruck18,24390.65%93.53%
- 92Downwell8,53190.53%96.55%
