If there’s anything harder than playing a difficult computer game, it’s trying to rank the top 10 hardest games of all time. With close to 50 years of gaming experience, from arcade machines to consoles, computers and handheld devices, it’s impossible to really compare. Is a platformer more difficult than a shooter, a modern 3D action game more difficult to master than a turn-based tactical puzzler? But however anyone can make this list, certain titles always seem to rise to the top. So here are our 10 toughest games of all time, ranked.
10. XCOM: UFO Defense
This original 1994 masterpiece launched the X-COM series that is still going strong today. But UFO was difficult on two levels. The battles were brutally hard, with some lost spaces of fog of war that could leave you in tatters. While at the base, overlooking a little thing it could spell doom for Earth further down the road.
9. Celestial
celestial is a challenging and satisfying platform game with an interesting topic. If you manage to complete it, you can try the harder versions of all levels. And if you can somehow get away with it, guess what? yes there is a Even harder waiting for you…
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8. Mushihimesama
welcome to the bullet hell bullet hell. This is a terrific shooter, but the unpredictable patterns of incoming fire make it much more difficult than average. 2D shoot ’em up. What it lacks in complexity, it makes up for in pure, unadulterated onscreen havoc. Honorable Mention: garegga battle
7. Super Mario: The Lost Levels
There are people who find Mario games complicated and others who somehow manage to get past them. For the last, much smaller group of gamers, those good folks at Nintendo put together The Lost Levels, a tracing to Super Mario Bros that was much more challenging.
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6. cup head
Don’t let the cute graphics fool you. Instead, think about the sheer brutality one of those early cartoons that Cuphead’s look is based on. So get ready for boss face after boss intention, and more than capable of ruining your day if you make even the slightest precision error. beautiful and imaginativebut totally out of you.
5. Dwarf Fortress
Few games have deserved more than Dwarf Fortress to get a modern makeover. But we are not sure that we can pass through the pure anguish of everything again. Take control of a dwarf settlement and watch as you slowly destroy it, dwarf by dwarf, despite your best efforts. If it’s in the game, it can and will go wrong. get ready for say goodbye to your friends. Remember: losing is fun!
4. Super Boy Meat
A fast and furious platform game which seems to operate on its own level of insanity. You have to get into a zen state to stand a chance, sort of become one with the meat-rix to find a way through each screen. And even then, you will die regularly.
3. Ninja Gaiden Series
If we were to go with an individual game, it would be ninja gaiden ii. But any game in the series would be in the “more difficult games” category. A relentless and brutal Fight your way through a series of increasingly difficult enemies that are hard enough to avoid, let alone beat. Honorable Mention: sekiro
2. Ghosts and goblins
Time side scrolling fighting platform games have been kept alive mainly by handheld and mobile gaming, the advantage has been largely removed from the difficulty. In their heyday these were games where you had to repeatedly put money into a slot to play, so the business model called for them to be frustratingly unforgiving. Ghost’s’n Goblins epitomized this. Honorable Mention: Against
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1. Dark Souls Series
There are plenty of games that you could include in this slot that have fueled your own personal nightmares. We’ll let you replace Dark Souls with elden ring, demon soul, blood borneY nioh, choose your option. You could make a top 10 incredibly dark, harsh, and frustrating fantasy action RPGs from the last decade. And if you’ve covered them all, we salute you.
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