Most Reviewed Difficult Games Under $40
The most-reviewed Difficult games for games under $40, ranked by total review count.
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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.
- 1Counter-Strike: Global Offensive9,745,55386.05%86.05%
- 2Dota 22,745,90780.65%80.64%
- 3PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS2,735,95660.55%60.46%
- 4Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege1,533,95582.28%82.26%
- 5HELLDIVERS 21,151,76575.24%75.16%
- 6Dead by Daylight922,44078.51%78.44%
- 7Geometry Dash625,58592.92%93.05%
- 8Hollow Knight553,55696.70%96.91%
- 9Don't Starve Together539,86094.76%94.95%
- 10Valheim538,63493.83%93.99%
- 11Monster Hunter: World513,86688.70%88.77%
- 12The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth433,85596.69%96.96%
- 13Bloons TD 6391,48396.89%97.19%
- 14Risk of Rain 2350,71193.56%93.80%
- 15Hades306,62897.61%98.02%
- 16Hunt: Showdown 1896275,94974.10%73.70%
- 17ULTRAKILL238,13096.88%97.38%
- 18SCP: Secret Laboratory232,39590.83%91.08%
- 19DOOM220,04795.05%95.51%
- 20Resident Evil 2218,63996.52%97.05%
- 21Cuphead217,59695.68%96.18%
- 22Slay the Spire216,62796.94%97.49%
- 23DOOM Eternal216,10091.10%91.39%
- 24Balatro195,58197.22%97.85%
- 25Counter-Strike: Source192,50395.73%96.29%
- 26Dead Cells181,97996.41%97.04%
- 27Devil May Cry 5168,56795.42%96.04%
- 28Half-Life162,95595.84%96.50%
- 29Darkest Dungeon160,79791.28%91.67%
- 30DARK SOULS: REMASTERED153,36091.99%92.44%
- 31Ori and the Will of the Wisps145,60595.76%96.50%
- 32Kerbal Space Program144,90394.88%95.56%
- 33Celeste144,61096.60%97.40%
- 34Oxygen Not Included142,83295.97%96.74%
- 35Outlast137,67595.67%96.44%
- 36Frostpunk136,35692.20%92.73%
- 37Aimlabs136,30590.70%91.12%
- 38Insurgency: Sandstorm132,77584.85%84.85%
- 39DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin130,75583.98%83.90%
- 40Helltaker127,81096.76%97.68%
- 41Hotline Miami126,55795.98%96.85%
- 42Resident Evil 3123,86683.49%83.37%
- 43The Long Dark122,95088.66%88.96%
- 44Muse Dash121,60491.02%91.51%
- 45My Summer Car115,85894.15%94.94%
- 46Don't Starve113,23295.61%96.55%
- 47Elite Dangerous106,96777.95%77.29%
- 48Resident Evil 4 (2005)97,08693.27%94.12%
- 49TEKKEN 795,20483.69%83.55%
- 50Albion Online92,75979.11%78.48%
- 51The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition89,96489.43%89.92%
- 52Blender89,48894.90%96.01%
- 53Enter the Gungeon89,48194.12%95.14%
- 54METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE88,53594.91%96.03%
- 55Barotrauma88,39793.10%94.02%
- 56Noita88,02794.13%95.17%
- 57DEVOUR87,88189.94%90.50%
- 58Overcooked! 283,18989.84%90.42%
- 59A Dance of Fire and Ice82,46193.09%94.07%
- 60Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy82,14282.57%82.28%
- 61Metro: Last Light Redux80,53090.54%91.24%
- 62Papers, Please79,82595.92%97.29%
- 63Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number79,38693.10%94.12%
- 64FTL: Faster Than Light78,37993.96%95.11%
- 65DRAGON BALL FighterZ76,49789.81%90.44%
- 66Beat Saber76,16694.29%95.51%
- 67Katana ZERO75,64696.42%97.93%
- 68Golf With Your Friends74,77087.10%87.38%
- 69Pizza Tower72,21596.67%98.29%
- 70TEKKEN 871,61959.74%56.21%
- 71Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition71,20593.82%95.06%
- 72Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem67,88359.64%55.91%
- 73Ghostrunner66,46390.41%91.23%
- 74GTFO66,40584.08%83.94%
- 75Alien: Isolation66,20692.07%93.14%
- 76Blasphemous66,00989.20%89.84%
- 77Chivalry: Medieval Warfare65,07882.89%82.57%
- 78Plague Inc: Evolved64,95092.98%94.22%
- 79Hitman: Absolution62,99892.06%93.18%
- 80The Binding of Isaac62,65093.32%94.65%
- 81Ultimate Custom Night62,50793.43%94.79%
- 82CONTROL Ultimate Edition62,36485.92%86.07%
- 83CODE VEIN62,12683.38%83.12%
- 84LIMBO61,61791.22%92.23%
- 85Battlerite59,24584.74%84.70%
- 86Five Nights at Freddy's58,80292.52%93.81%
- 87XCOM: Enemy Unknown58,44092.01%93.21%
- 88DRAGON BALL Z: KAKAROT58,02691.97%93.18%
- 89Skul: The Hero Slayer57,42792.03%93.26%
- 90Remnant: From the Ashes57,06784.40%84.29%
- 91Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation55,82392.82%94.22%
- 92Rain World55,36992.43%93.77%
- 93They Are Billions51,21485.12%85.14%
- 94Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen48,84087.85%88.44%
- 95DiRT Rally 2.048,20088.13%88.79%
- 96S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl48,04793.00%94.67%
- 97Realm of the Mad God Exalt47,62783.14%82.75%
- 98Assetto Corsa Competizione47,51091.34%92.67%
- 99Hero Siege46,89470.29%67.16%
- 100DARK SOULS II46,63287.58%88.14%
