Hidden Gem Difficult Games Free

Highly rated Difficult games on Steam that are free to play, capped at 25,000 reviews. The cap filters out everything you've already heard of.

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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.
  1. 1Iron Snout93.21%
  2. 2Quaver89.36%
  3. 3POSTAL88.98%
  4. 4TrackMania Nations Forever88.77%
  5. 5You Have to Win the Game88.21%
  6. 6RED HOT VENGEANCE88.19%
  7. 7Dark Deception87.62%
  8. 8Vecter87.59%
  9. 9Toribash87.26%
  10. 10Neon Boost86.37%
  11. 11Loading Screen Simulator85.98%
  12. 12MINDNIGHT85.25%
  13. 13Stormbound83.71%
  14. 14Mitos.is: The Game83.00%
  15. 15Never Split the Party82.59%
  16. 16Builders of Egypt: Prologue81.79%
  17. 17LET IT DIE81.33%
  18. 18Artifact58.12%