Hard indie games

Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)

Vitamin Games

A musical bullet-hell where all things beautiful are deadly. Dodge well little nanobot, you don't have much time.

Super Macabre Madness

Hellicine Interactive

First game from this studio

Super Macabre Madness is a fast-paced 2D platformer where you’ll die over and over again. Can you beat it before it beats you?

Skyturns

Skyturns

Crazy flow, crazy speed, crazy skill, crazy levels. This game is hard, skill-based, and super fun once you get it.

MEMEDASH

NoEscape Studios

It’s a full-on ragebait platformer! Beat iconic meme-themed levels to make it to the very end. Be careful though, some levels are literally designed to push you over the edge.

Jump Kiwi

SwishmonTF

Kiwis are flightless birds, but that shouldn't stop you from climbing your way up the highest peak in the realm. You will have your skill, patience, and perseverance tested as you run, jump and climb from platform to platform to reach the top of the mountain.

Proto Zero

ExtraWildGames

There Is No Point In Looking Back. The Only Way Left Is Forward. - O. Escape the mega complex and find out what happened to the world our Protagonist Yuuto once knew after his long slumber, in this new generation 3d action sci-fi brawler.

Flappy Wings Multiplayer

Rokito Games

Master your timing in this fast-paced 2D arcade runner! Dodge endless pipes to set high scores, level up, and unlock quirky characters. Play solo to test your reflexes, share the screen in local PvP, or race players worldwide in chaotic online multiplayer.

Lostbound

Tenkarider

Find all the Artifacts before you’re caught in this Roguelite Action RPG. Embrace your destiny and escape a collapsing world. Darkness is alive. The Hand erases your path and drags you into the Abyss. Every step shapes your run.

OverBlocked

JAMworld

Keep the ball alive while clearing the tables of blocks across 64 levels. To help you out, you have 12 upgradable power-ups, a time-limited light beacon on the ball, and paddle steering assistance. Create your own levels and custom games to share with others. Eyes on the ball!

Pogo Gnom

KILIRAU

A garden gnome on a pogo stick climbs 800 metres to the moon. No checkpoints. After every fall, a fictional Garden Office issues you an official notice — with a reference number, and a very precise record of how many times you have failed in that exact spot.

Jono

Part Time Monkey

Work together to complete one million levels, one player at a time. Continue where the previous left off. Chat with others while you wait for your turn. How long will it take?

Jump Bait

Tim Anderson

Jumpbait is a precision platformer about short levels, fast retries, and platforms that wait for exactly the wrong moment to betray you.

Bony Bones Adventures

KMH Productions

Bony Bones Adventures is an action 3D platformer where you have to go through the path of an ordinary skeleton who challenged the invaders. Complete quests, look for ancestors equipment, fight enemies, and defeat bosses.

Banana Clicker

Siphon Games

A goofy idle clicker about bananas. Click it, buy upgrades from a cast of strange characters, catch slices, survive banana storms and black holes, and dress your banana in astronaut helmets and devil horns. When the run tops out, ascend and start again stronger.

Escape The Cavern Abyss

Luke Silva

Collect keys, battle enemies, overcome deadly obstacles, and manage your resources as you fight to escape the Cavern Abyss in this challenging 2D platformer.

Discard

GiorgioFox

A hypnotic roguelike deckbuilder where you actually throw your cards: the wind bends them, the rails bounce them back, the pockets pull them in. Unlock ever stronger decks, chain combos that multiply the pot and decide when to cash out, or throw it all to the wind. Then go again.

FORK BOMB: A Programming Game

Quiet Machines

Write real code in a Python-like language to control one machine that copies itself. Then watch a thousand copies of your program eat a world. A single-player programming incremental game about self-replicating machines.

GODSPEED

Kyrie

GODSPEED is a brutal first-person arena shooter about never standing still. Fight your way out of hell with two crucifix pistols, conquer four arenas and bosses, and compete for the fastest times on the global leaderboards. The hardest difficulty isn't meant to be fair.

Dreamspring

Billyfighter

Dreamspring is a dark fantasy styled, open world dungeon crawler inspired by games like Morrowind and King's Field. Explore a dying kingdom and it's different realms in first person action combat, styled in a mix of retro and vaporwave aesthetics.

Domebreak

Second Player Studio

Keep a dying farm alive under a stone dome, hire mercenaries, and climb the Abyss Tower for the light your town is running out of. A card-battler roguelike and farming sim in one loop: 130 floors, three endings, and a locked drawer your father left behind.

Climb Up Together

cnsgames

21 titles on Steam

A 1-4 player co-op climbing game. Killed in a traffic accident, you wake up in hell as skeletons at the foot of a tower that reaches the living world. Climb past various parkour courses, collect your body parts on the way up and become human again by the summit.

ScriptReader

Ditru

Hone your skills and break records never before seen. An extreme challenge for players who find current games unsatisfactory. Die, restart, adapt, memorize level layouts, and become increasingly better.

SpyCat: Codename Wu

Yuchu Games

SpyCat: Codename Wu is a 2D action-adventure platformer starring a feline secret agent. Run, climb, sneak, and fight past traps and pursuers. Every conversation walks the line between trust and betrayal. Uncover the truth, expose the conspiracy, find your place between humans and animals.

Moonball

DeetoDev

Play with up to 4 players in a game of Moonball! A 2d platformer sport game involving skill and sometimes a bit of luck ;) Score on the opposing team by knocking the ball into their goal! Pick up weapons and wacky power-ups to give your team and advantage...or disadvantage.