Top 10 Hardest Video Games
I'm pretty sure most people have experienced the insane difficulty of the Turbo Tunnel. What most people probably don't know is that, aside from level 5, it doesn't get any easier than that. The last 4 levels of this game make the Turbo Tunnel look like a Kirby level.
In fact, I'm almost certain that level 11 is impossible unless you either use an old CRT television or use a pause trick at every corner.
I got to the last level with my college roommate and only reached the last boss once. The last boss is so hard I gave up. It takes hours to make a perfect run only to get destroyed by the last boss. It takes months of playing every day to perfect every level.
This is the one game where walkthroughs are allowed. I've only played this on the NES.
I used to think games set on the hardest difficulties were... But then I played Dark Souls, and my character took a ten-foot arrow to the knee and was launched off a cliff.
Your move, Skyrim on expert. Oh, and I only died 80 times to a dual boss battle Ornstein and Smough. No exaggeration, it took me 6 hours to beat them.
I have played Battletoads, and this game took way more lives for me to get past 4 bosses than it took for me to beat Battletoads. This game has made me rage quit to the point I felt like blowing my brains out for a few seconds. Then I smoke a cig and calm down.
I finished this without the hack of getting like 50 lives, and man, it took some work and getting used to. Nintendo needs to stop making people rage.
Extremely broken AI. Oh, and if you get hit three times, it's game over (unless you're using the Konami code).
It took me like a week just to pass level one. That code though, what would I do without it?
I've beaten this game on Normal Difficulty, and I refuse to play on Expert because of the insane amounts of rage I would experience.
This game is hard. Not only do some bosses take hours to beat, but the run-'n'-gun levels bombard you with enemies. You have a limited number of HP, which means you have to try as hard as humanly possible to stay alive. And then there's the Expert difficulty, which is just plain torture.
Why is this just number 11? Cuphead consists of boss fights that are damn hard. Except for the Root Pack and 2 other exceptions, all have taken me a lot of time, primarily Grim Matchstick! I took two weeks to crack him! Just a legend of a game.
This should be number 1. It's the hardest Mario game ever made.
Calling this game hard is an understatement. The Lost Levels include Poison Mushrooms that damage Mario, high winds that interfere with the timing of your jumps, and if that wasn't enough, the game also had reverse warp pipes that send you back to previous worlds. Even searching for secrets can be a pain. Even veteran players will have a hard time surviving.
Poison Mushrooms, 13 worlds, and warp zones that take you back to previous worlds. It pissed me off. I could barely even get to the first warp zone and only got from World 1 to World 4 (not 1-4).
The only way people could beat this game is with TAS or gaming skills (not by training in Call of Duty, but real games like Destiny, Mario LL, etc.).
One of the most competitive games I have ever played in my life. God of War is next, of course, but Ninja Gaiden - bruh, if you put this on hard, it's impossible to pass.
As somebody who has beaten both this and Dark Souls, I can say with absolute confidence that Ninja Gaiden is far more difficult.
It's not that hard. I beat it in 3 days.
An incredibly hard game where one mistake equals restarting the entire stage. Even messing up by a few milliseconds could screw you over completely.
Not long played the trial on Xbox 360 arcade. Damn, it's hard.
The levels start out easy, but as you progress they get harder and harder. I can't tell you how many times I've quit to the map and gone to the next level. My personal hardest level is level 13.
I think this game should be higher on the list. It's that hard.
Just got A+ on every level and 106% completion (maximum achievable). I have to say this was the hardest game I've played, having played a lot of games in my life.
This game should be a solid top ten.
This game is impossible. I swear it's just impossible. You can't beat this, and even if you get through the ending, you have to replay the whole game twice to get to the "true" ending.
No saves, only 2 hits before you die, and enemies that spawn everywhere and randomly. I can't even get through stage 1. And I've beaten games like Mega Man and Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels.
This is the most difficult and frustrating game ever! Enemies spawn everywhere and attack you from angles where you are incapable of hitting them. You even need to memorize parts of the game since jumps in certain areas will make an enemy spawn right where you are going to land.
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How is this not on the list?! It has some of the most precise platforming in any game I have seen!
Obviously not top 10, but for sure top 25 at LEAST.
This game is very cheap at times I swear this game cheats cause there were times where I tried jumping on a platform only to miss it by an inch or end up jumping over the platform I lost more lives in this game then in the originals.
I can never get past this level with a lizard on a platform as it will always push to your death.
That Slippery Climb Gem took me two hours...
No lie these are the hardest games on this list it deserves the top 5 at least, dark souls for me was a piece of cake compared to this game
If you think the arcade version of this is hard, well here's my first difficult game in my childhood, folks.
Contrary to popular belief, this game is actually not impossible. In fact, I just literally beat the creators at their own game.
That's right. Just to beat the mere story mode of this game, you must literally beat the flipping game itself. How badass is that?
This game is my favorite racing game ever. I spent so much time trying to beat everything, and after trying and trying and tying, I would finally beat something and it felt so rewarding. Especially because you also unlocked some new characters too. This game is perfect.
You don't know what the hell you're doing at all in this game. Not even the Nerd can beat it.
Oh, and I forgot the Sharktronic Shark boss. It is probably hard.
It's the hardest game ever, but also the best and most fun!
I spend hours playing this game and voting for it on this site instead of doing my work.
Why this game is hard:
1. There are countless enemies on the screen at once, all trying to kill you.
2. Some enemies must be hit dozens of times to be killed.
3. One hit kills you.
4. You can die from touching walls, floors, ceilings, and even rubber ducks. Basically, anything that's not a power-up can kill you. You can distinguish power-ups by the fact that they appear only once certain enemies are killed.
5. Power-ups do not exist just to make the game easier. Many levels are actually impossible to beat without them.
6. Enemies will take you by surprise, coming from the back of the screen, so levels require memorization to tell when you should expect an attack from behind.
7. You may think that checkpoints make the game easier, but they often do the opposite. You will have to obtain all the necessary power-ups to beat the level while missing out on all of those available before the checkpoint.
I've probably missed some points, but those above should explain why Battletoads is a breeze compared to this gaming challenge.
This is the game where you see how far you can push it. So far, players have pushed it to ungodly amounts ever since the first demon level was uploaded.
Players have done some of the hardest stuff in gaming history. The GD community will keep on searching for the ceiling, no matter how high it truly is. Once 2.2 is released, the ceiling will rise the farthest it has gone in a single update, and the player base will improve accordingly.
Geometry Dash is the game that gets harder and harder as it ages. It may be one of, if not the hardest game ever made.
Laugh out loud. I finished this game when I was in 6th grade. You know how long it took me to finish it? ONE YEAR and 6 months on easy.
This game had to be released twice because of the difficulty! This needs to be way higher. This needs to be number one. This is so hard!
This game is hard. From a mature gamer's point of view, this game is very much fun.
This is a terrible game, and the developers should feel ashamed. It's free, though, so there's no use complaining there.
Not only does it require some insanely precise platforming with its awkward controls and threat of instant death, but there are traps everywhere that you will have no idea even exist until you've died to them. It's so disrespectful of the player that it isn't fun to play. You only do it because you want to tell people you've beaten it.
How is this not in the top 3? The amount of work you need to put into this game just to beat a boss is absolutely insane. I'm not even sure how this isn't higher up on the list, considering how (in my opinion) it is the hardest platformer in current gaming.
Destroyed me for video games. It was the first video game I ever played. I put hours and hours (and hours) into it and gave up after about 50 attempts at the Great Palace.
I've never played an adventure game since.
How the heck is this number 36? It should be number 1! Adventure of Link is the hardest game I've played. It took me a long time to finish level 1, and don't get me started on the Great Palace.
It's easier if you read Nintendo Power's cheats and guides for Zelda 2.
I played Dark Souls and this game. I can absolutely guarantee that Bloodborne is even harder than Dark Souls!
This is very underrated. This is WAY harder than Dark Souls! Should be swapped.
A better game (just my opinion), but also a harder game. Should be WAY higher.
I had a friend who beat this game easily. I saw him do it several times. It was amazing. I couldn't last but a few seconds.