The 2010s saw a lot of great game releases and some of them were absolutely brutal. For this list, we’ll be looking at the games from 2010 to 2019 that offered up the biggest challenges. Our countdown includes "Enter the Gungeon" (2016), "Cuphead" (2017), "Super Meat Boy" (2010), "Dark Souls" (2011), and more! Which game gave you the most grief? Sound off in the comments below.
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Which game gave you the most grief? Sound off in the comments below.
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Geometry dash it will always be for me. I never played getting over it by the way but I’ve seen it and I’m just like it makes me rage just looking at it. Same for cuphead
I was hoping Donkey Kong Country Returns would appear as you have to play every level again as Donkey Kong in Mirror Mode.
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze seems tough enough as you have to play every level again without checkpoints.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 has you collect the final star without taking damage.
Cuphead gives us a lot of nostalgic vibes every time we play it. I really hope the DLC and the Netflix series come real soon.
why couldn’t they just give us FIVE LIVES
At this point I’m anticipating a sequel
Great game also may it rot in game hell
@Chris X exactly
@Chris X 4 years ago isent yesterday but also not long enough to be nostalgic I think he’s talking about the animation 100%
Hollow Knight should’ve been on this list or atleast an honorable mention
That last fight with Hornet drove me absolutely insane.
@Siegmeyer of Catarina it is though the pantheons and other post game content in other games might rival the difficulty of Mario kart I wouldn’t know though
@Saula yeah, once you do it one time it gets easier and easier to beat it again, but the first time… It tooks ages.
@JaGamin 500 no, I didnt know about that, I don’t play Mario cars games. Sounds pretty difficult!
@Siegmeyer of Catarina have you heard of Mario kart Wii ctgp expert ghosts now idk how hard all the pantheons are but the reason the ghosts in Mario kart are hard is cause they are made by world record holder who give almost no mercy on average it takes 2 years for someone to beat all the ghosts and that’s for the very very very select few who actually ever beat all the ghosts from what I know of the pantheons some are easy some are ruthless
Seeing Sekiro got number 1 on this list makes me proud of myself as I’ve beaten it twice.
It makes me proud that I beat it 4 times and got 100% on it and beat all the gauntlet challenges just within 71 hours haha
As someone who has beat over half and attempted almost all the games on this list, I can say with confidence that Sekiro is both the hardest and most fun. 10/10 game for me
100% proudest platuim trophy on my list
Sekiro is an amazing games 100% but once you learn the game mechanics and timings you can easily breeze through most of the game. Especially after beating it once
Im on ng+7 right now no kuro charm + demon bell, heck im struggling with owl father, ironically i already 100% all the gauntlet challenges i beat inner genni and inner ishin., Taking away kuro charm + demon bell is a different game.
@ThatOneGuy I don’t disagree with you but not having Kuro’s charm is the way Sekiro is meant to be played , that is the true hard mode of the game . After i have beaten Sekiro on base game and ng+ with no dmg modifiers it was just too easy on my second playthrough , that is why i used those modifiers and it made the game a lot harder witch is a + in my book , It totally changes how you approach any fight because you can’t just hope to block or chip dmg will end you soon if you do so , it also makes the game way more fun , Demon bell just makes it a little harder but not that big a deal really .
Outside of DS2 where you could join COC and make the game a lot harder i don’t remember having those options in other souls games , you could say you could use the ring where you take double dmg but then you are nerfing yourself , or in other means but that is not the true hard mode , that is just you weakening yourself to make the game harder .
@Saula but the fact that you could resurrect automatically means Sekiro is easier just for having that option. And I am I talking about base difficulty. No modifiers like taking off the charm or demon bell or anything like that. Pretty much every game has difficulty options where you can manually switch to make it harder on yourself. That doesn’t objectively make the game more difficult than others
@ThatOneGuy I don’t know about that . The only 2 really hard bosses in Bloodborne and i am talking ng+6 not ng which is much easier are Orphan of Kos and Laurence the First Vicar , any other boss is much easier . Isshin on ng+7 no Kuro’s charm and using the demon bell is comparable but probably easier because you get so many items to use and 3 times to fail if you use a Jizo statue . If you couldn’t die in Sekiro Ishhin would definitely be harder than any boss in BB .
@Mighty Odean Games Exactly , it’s the intended way to play the game , the only reason why that isn’t the default state of the game is because a lot of people couldn’t or wouldn’t want to beat it since it would a lot tougher . It’s bad enough that game journalists are frothing at the mouth at the difficulty at any FromSoft game but especially Sekiro since you can’t use summons in the game , imagine what they would be like if there was no Kuro’s charm and you take chip dmg .
Bloodbourne was the most brutal game I’ve played in a long time.
Of all the soulsborne games. Bloodborne was not the hardest. But it definitely had its sections that were damn near impossible. Orphan of Kos, Ludwig. Its still one of the best games i ever played.
@Keelan Coburn I think bloodborne is easier for sure
Nah, I found bloodborne the easiest of it all but then I fought orphan and Laurence
I just platinumed it lol
@CleetusVanDamme530 Bloodbourne was actually my introduction to the series. After about a week of constantly dying, I gave the game to my friend 🤣🤣🤣. That was it for me.
The mid 2000s and Early 2010s were awesome, imo
@leon Same. 👍👍👍💯💯💯💯
Yup my childhood basically.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is truly a hard game. I couldn’t even beat the first Ogre battle without dying so many times.
Personally I found Dark Souls 2 alot harder than Dark Souls 1, but the difficulty in DS2 was more frustrating than fair compared to DS1 (The only BS moment in DS1 is definitely the infamous Bed of Chaos). As for missing games on the list… Wings of Vi. Anyone here who has seen or played Wings of Vi knows what Iam talking about. That game was pure evil.
Yeah esp ds2’s tedious boss runs
What I love about The Witness is that even though I’ve been playing it for years (still not completed lol), I can go back and try figure out the puzzles (and must likely not). I refuse to look up a walk-through for it xD
What’s awesome about this list is that these aren’t just some of the hardest games out there, they’re also some of the most satisfying gaming experiences on the market once you get over the learning curve. It also doesn’t take as long as a lot of people think and/or claim, for any of these games really, as long as you keep an open mind to your options, learn from mistakes, and resist the urge to rage/blame the game because that’s a good way to learn absolutely nothing about what you did wrong
Sekiro was perfect match for me and my brother. We have completed multiple playthrough but still can go on. I like the world of dark souls but for me the crisp amd fast combat style of sekiro with a realistic swords clashes resulting in every combat. Its most active combat i have ever played where enemy reacts to you as much as you react to them.
Being a new souls lover i can’t comprehend how souls veterans would have been shocked with the first playthrough of sekiro.
@Himanshu Rajput have you tried dark souls 3? It’s the best in the series imo
@Shmluh Yup I liked that game a lot. A good combat with some engaging narrative. I was sold and want sequel to be much bigger than Fallen order.
I’m most of the way thru Fallen Order and it’s like Souls + Uncharted, they really managed to save this game from EA, playing it on Jedi Master difficulty and it really feels like a Souls game
@TheWildHealer I would be able to in few weeks. As my brother has succeeded in acquiring ps5.
@Himanshu Rajput I bought playstation just to play Bloodborne haha. And I must say it was worth it, best souls game I’ve ever played
Shocked not to see Hollow Knight, while some can be easy other bosses and it’s difficulty spikes can make for one hell of a challenge:
Try beating Cuphead without Dying once. It’s impossible.
ouf, yeah
@Raul Flores That used to happen to me a lot as a child. Though l noticed that after taking long breaks for weeks, months or even years l have less difficulty in games l use to struggle with in the past.
My 7 yr old son quit that game after 2 hours. He cried for a whole day. Lol
Pretty sure cuphead, celeste and meat boy are way harder than sekiro.
Most of these games made me realize caffeine is _not enough_ of a boost to my reaction speed. That’s why I choose cheetah blood. It’ll quench ya! It’s the quenchiest!
It is strange how subjective difficulty is. I didn’t really find Cuphead, Super Meat Boy and Celeste too difficulty, but then Dark souls I find nightmarish…
I’ve beaten 3 FromSoft games so far, and will probably be stuck in Cuphead on the casino roulette boss gauntlet forever
And I’m the opposite. Hard platformers absolutely destroy me while Dark Souls and the like are my happy place. Look how unique we all are!
I think Nioh is a good place to start. You can develop your own style of play through the weapons and clothing and you can team up with friends. Personally, I found the first a bit more challenging than the second.
the first is imo way harder if you don’t cheese it. You can cheese the game with some insane Susanobuilds, but if you play it normal it gets super frustrating, especialy the human bosses. Nioh 2 is much fairer in this regard.