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Take on the role of a hunter and, with your ever-reliable Palico, battle gigantic monsters in the new world and discover everything it holds secret – all in the name of research. The game was first released worldwide on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in January 2018 before later being released for PC in August of the same year. Monster Hunter: World has been nominated for more than 40 awards, including winning Game of the Year award at the Japan Game Awards and best Co-operative Game at The Game Awards in 2018. It has recently seen a paid expansion, Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, that was released September 6th, 2019 and which won the Best Ongoing Game award at Gamescom 2019.
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The recent paid expansion for Monster Hunter: World was first released for consoles on September 6th, 2019 and later for PC on January 9th, 2020. The expansion brings with it old monsters of previous games and also the G Rank difficulty of older games, choosing to rename them Master Rank Quests. Since it’s release, Iceborne has been nominated for five awards and won Best Ongoing Game at Gamescom 2019.
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Carve your way through an award winning adventure in the latest souls-like action game from legendary developers FromSoftware. Unlike their other games, like the Dark Souls series, Sekiro lacks character creation, the ability to level up stats and has no multiplayer elements. The game is focused on stealth, exploration and combat with particular emphasis put onto boss battles. Though it takes place in fictional areas, some are inspired by real-world locations in Japan with strong references to Buddhist mythology and philosophy. The game has been nominated for over 20 awards and has won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2019 as well as Game of the Year at The Steam Awards 2019.
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Enter the depths of Dead Cells in a new roguelike-metroidvania game developed and published by Motion Twin. The game was entered Early Access on May 10th, 2017, before being released across all platforms on August 7th, 2018. An iOS port released August 28th, 2019 and an Android port is planned for 2020. The player character is a Prisoner made of a greenish blob of an unknown substance with an immortal head and the ability to possess executed bodies. Though the head is immortal, the body is not and so death results in the head slinking back to the Prison Quarters to begin the descent once more. To tighten the gameplay, the developers looked to the Engineer from Team Fortress 2, taking inspiration from his use of turrets and other buildable items to help strengthen the character’s abilities in Dead Cells, forcing the player to use a combination of weapons and skills to progress.
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Rise as the Ashen One, an Unkindled, and link the fire by returning Prince Lothric and the Lords of the Cinder to their thrones in Firelink Shrine. Dark Souls 3 became the fastest-selling game in publishers Bandai Namco Entertainment’s history, selling over 3 million copies wordwide in the first two months of its release. The game features two Estus Flasks for the first time in the series. The first refills hit points and the second refills focus points and is new to the series with Dark Souls 3. Dark Souls 3 encourages exploration by featuring fewer maps than Dark Souls 2, but making the maps larger and more detailed.
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Play the run and gun action game inspired by 1930s cartoons, full of hand drawn animation, watercolor backgrounds and original jazz recordings. Players can play solo or in co-op as Cuphead and Mugman to fight through levels that culminate in boss fights in an attempt to repay their debt to the Devil. After reaching the Devil and having the contracts they need from those they have defeated, the players must choose whether to give the contracts to the Devil. If they player turns them over they are turned into evil lackeys and the game ends, if they refuse the Devil becomes furious and the player must fight him. Developer, Chad Moldenhauer, hand-drew the animations and painted the background using watercolors, colorizing them in Photoshop. The game runs at a framerate of 60, but the animations run at 24 frames which is a film standard.
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Forge your own path, explore a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes and discover twisted caverns and battle tainted creatures in the beautifully hand-drawn Hollow Knight. The game is a 2D metroidvania souls-like game in the world of Hallownest, consisting of large, inter-connected areas with unique themes. There are multiple endings in the game depending on the player’s actions. The first is the Hollow Knight ending, the second is the Sealed Siblings ending and the last is Dream No More, which sees the player fight the moth-like goddess, the Radiance, the true source of the infection. The game continues to be updated and the latest, the Godmaster update, adds extra content, including harder versions of bosses and further possible endings to the game.
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Play the unforgiving life of a medieval mercenary in this challenging turn-based open-world RPG. Boasting more than 100 abilities, more than 200 equipment pieces and no class or level restrictions, you can truly play the way you want to. Battle against numerous factions, brigands and the undead. Master the health system which features bloodletting and cauterizing of wounds and keep your morale high, as losing your sanity can bring panic attacks and paranoia. Discover new settlements, gather and upgrade your caravan, devote yourself to a deity, discover new cooking and alchemy recipes and embark on an epic campaign that will have long-lasting consequences.
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Smash your way through an endless number of blue and red boxes to your favourite songs in the most hyped VR game on the market. The game initially released on May 1st, 2018, for PC VR headsets and then November 20th, 2018, for PlayStation 4 VR. Since its release it has been nominated for more than 20 awards and won best VR/AR Game at the Golden Joystick Awards and The Game Awards 2019. A week after hitting the Steam store in 2018 it became the highest-rated VR game on the platform.
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Stay ahead of the Empire in Respawn’s third person action-adventure that sees you travel the galaxy as an abandoned Padawan in a bid to rebuild the Jedi Order. Master the lightsaber with a new innovative combat system, develop new Force abilities, meet iconic characters, visit recognizable locations and discover all new ones. Begin a new Jedi story and explore the galaxy however you want to. Avoid the Empire, solve puzzles, overcome obstacles and discover everything the Force has to offer in this wonderful story-driven cinematic adventure.
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Play as Isaac in his bid to escape his religious mother as she attempts to sacrifice him as an offering to her god. Play though randomly generated dungeons and collect a number of items that will improve Isaac’s stats. The game has a new graphics engine, offers a more intense experience than the previous game and boasts more than 500 hours of gameplay. The Binding of Isaac is a truly immersive game will have a long-lasting effect on you. You don’t want to miss the latest in this wonderfully crafted franchise.
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The game puts you in control of the silent Diogenes who resides in a large metal cauldron and wields a Yosemite Hammer to grip objects and move himself. Developed by Bennet Foddy, the game also features voice-over commentary by Bennet as he discusses various philosophical topics and even provides quotes relating to disappointment when progress is lost by the player. Getting Over It is aimed towards “a certain type of person, to hurt them” and is inspired by Sexy Hiking, a game released by Jazzuo in 2002. There are no checkpoints in the game with the game, putting the player at constant risk of losing all of their progress. Once reaching the top, the game concludes by asking the player if they are recording the gameplay, if the player indicates they are not they are provided with access to a chatroom with other players who have completed the game.
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Recruit, train and lead a team of flawed heroes in this gothic roguelike turn-based RPG that puts emphasis on the psychological stresses of adventuring. The game features an Affliction system which is inspired by both fiction and historical events, such as by Hudson in Aliens and by the soldiers in Band of Brothers. Darkest Dungeon has a disembodied narrator follow you through your trials and is voiced by Wayne June. The game has a number of difficulty levels such as Darkest, which is the game’s normal mode, Radiant, which reduces the campaign length but maintains the difficulty level and lastly Stygian, which gives enemies increased health and forces the player to complete the game in 86 in-game weeks or before losing 13 heroes. Darkest Dungeon has plenty of content and its DLC packs all add extra enemies, quests and heroes to ensure you keep going back into the dark for more punishment.
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Play as Madeline and survive your inner demons and make it to the top of Celeste Mountain in a stunning platformer from the creators of TowerFall, Matt Makes Games Inc. The game contains more than 700 screens of hardcore platforming challenges as well as B-side and C-side chapters to unlock. Madeline can jump, climb and perform a mid-air dash. There is an Assist Mode that gives players the opportunity to modify the game’s mechanics, such as giving Madeline invincibility, infinite air-dashes or even slowing the game down. Celeste is available on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, launching on January 25, 2018.
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Rebuild XCOM and reclaim Earth from alien rule in the sequel to the award winning turn-based strategy game from Firaxis Games. After player feedback from the first game, Firaxis Games added procedural generation of maps and mod support to XCOM 2. The game offers four difficulty settings: Rookie, Veteran, Commander and Legend for those wanting a true challenge. After beating the game players can enable Ironman mode which deletes the save file whenever the player performs an action, making decisions and death final. XCOM 2 has five character classes, each with their own abilities. These are the Ranger, Grenadier, Specialist, Sharpshooter and Psi Operative. The game also introduces new enemies, including the Vipers.
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Difficult video games are often targeted towards the hardcore player or a player-base that has a certain interest in the genre it is released. They are not generally aimed at players searching for a quick game or a game to kill some time on, but rather intend to blend frustration with reward.
There is no set genre for the difficult games to fall into, they can be strategy games, like the XCOM games, RPG, such as the Baldur’s Gate franchise or even rogue-like, such as Risk Of Rain.
Whatever the genre it is released for, a difficult game will focus on balance and fairness in exchange for the difficulty it offers. The Dark Souls series is famous for both its difficulty and fairness, it gives no guidance to players and lets them choose their own path and their own strategy with failure being more of a learning curve than a dead end.
Frustration is part of the process of playing a difficult game. Games such as Cuphead offer a challenge but gives the player the small hint of hope and belief that the next try will lead to success. It is this careful balance between frustration and success that can make a difficult game addicting.
Difficult games can be for everyone, though they tend to have a dedicated player-base they offer reward in the way of personal dedication, strength and character to continue forward and even complete.
They make us go back to them time and time again, feeling like the next try is the one that results in success, giving us value for money. It is all of these factors that make difficult games popular, and the challenge of beating them is what separates the casual from the hardcore gamers.
This is where Tags come in.
In the world of hardest Games, fantastic games can be found at incredible prices but you can also be at a greater risk of being left disappointed.
Not all games reach their potential and get a release, unfortunately many games are left abandoned by their developers or are even released in a poor state and are yet still available to purchase on Steam.
Steam is in the business of selling games and sometimes that can mean a drop in quality in order to get more titles onto the Steam Store and available for purchase.
At Allkeyshop, we believe in quality over quantity and because of that we use every bit of data that Steam offers and we use that to provide the most detailed analysis of a game’s ranking.
Our rankings will take all available pieces of data into account, in particular we focus on the real ratings, real opinions and recommendations of those that play the game.
As a part of our ranking, we ensure that only those that own the game, have it currently available in their library and are logged into their account can vote for their favourite games. This, along with our other data, ensures we have the most accurate ranking system possible.
We only show the top 15 games so that you are not overwhelmed with hundreds of games and swamped in too much data. We plan on refreshing our top 15 each week, but we may change this plan if we find it has a real demand from you, our users.
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