The Best Unforgiving Games

Update : The Fight: Aftermath added at rank #15.
1

Will You Snail? (2022)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation.

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  • platform
  • unforgiving
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • precision
  • 2d
  • fast-paced
  • scroller
  • short
  • comedy
  • puzzle
  • non-linear
  • funny
  • story

2

REDO! (2019)

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PC Windows

REDO! is a game about a girl trying to find another human in a dystopian world overrun by biomachines. It's a lonely and evocative game about exploring the unknown and overcoming obstacles to see what is left.

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  • metroidvania
  • unforgiving
  • post-apocalyptic
  • nonlinear
  • dark
  • pixel
  • immersive
  • atmospheric
  • 2d
  • sci-fi
  • dystopian
  • adventure
  • exploration
  • action

3

Sunblaze (2021)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Lead Josie, aka. Sunblaze into a superhero training simulator built by her dad, a retired protagonist fighting the evils of our universe. Sunblaze is a brain-twisting precision platformer with hundreds of challenging levels, an awesome story, a superb soundtrack, and a beautiful game design.


  • platform
  • superhero
  • unforgiving
  • precision
  • 2d
  • puzzle
  • training
  • stylized
  • scroller
  • controller-support
  • cartoony
  • cute
  • pixel
  • story
  • robots

4

Sockventure (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

In this challenging 2D platformer game, play as a Superhero and help the Kid to find all the missing socks inside the cursed washing machine, Sockventure has stunning colorful graphics, hand-crafted levels, tight controls and fun ever-changing gameplay.


  • platform
  • superhero
  • unforgiving
  • 2d
  • precision
  • collectathon
  • comic
  • scroller
  • fast-paced
  • comedy
  • replay-value
  • retro
  • book
  • hardcore
  • controller-support

5

Million to One Hero (2019)

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80
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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

An exciting platform game, filled with action, skill, wits and competition that hides a secret inside: A powerful editor that you can use to create your own adventures… and by adventures we don’t mean simple levels… We mean full campaigns, with their world map, NPC’s and your own unique story!

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  • platform
  • 2d
  • unforgiving
  • japanese
  • precision
  • metroidvania
  • city-building
  • choices
  • narration
  • jrpg
  • puzzle
  • mythology
  • rpg
  • minimalist
  • pixel

6

FLASHOUT 3 (2022)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

FLASHOUT IS BACK! Where high speed meets high stakes. Where unforgiving combat, loud electronic music and addictive boosts of adrenaline mix up to separate winners from losers. Where gravitation is nothing more than an empty word. Take part in an exciting, head-to-head fight to the finish!


  • racing
  • unforgiving
  • auto
  • cyberpunk
  • tutorial
  • 3d
  • immersive
  • bullet-hell
  • simulation
  • split-screen
  • flight
  • driving
  • vr

7

Help Will Come Tomorrow (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Linux

In an uninhabitable Siberian wilderness, in a wake of October Revolution, a group of passengers survives the mysterious catastrophe of Trans-Siberian railway train. They must endure in a harsh ice-clad climate until rescue arrives. Facing many dangers, their own weaknesses and, their own prejudice.


  • survival
  • unforgiving
  • rogue-like
  • resource-management
  • immersive
  • choices
  • narration
  • simulation
  • political
  • historical
  • atmospheric
  • management
  • strategy
  • crafting
  • story

8

Outbreak: The Nightmare Chronicles (2020)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Xbox One PC Windows Linux

Experience an immersive and horrifying episodic single-player survival horror nightmare. Trapped alone in a desolate manor and hunted by monstrous foes, you will need to scrounge for supplies, manage your resources, solve puzzles and battle the undead to survive.


  • survival-horror
  • unforgiving
  • roguevania
  • pve
  • lore
  • tps
  • horror

9

NERVE (2021)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Hurtle through beautiful unforgiving worlds, where every frame is enthralling, every moment is exhilarating, every death is deserved, and every success is earned. RACE | DODGE | DIE | REPEAT


  • unforgiving
  • runner
  • abstract
  • soundtrack
  • racing
  • rhythm
  • psychedelic
  • arcade
  • fast-paced
  • third-person
  • difficult
  • surreal

10

Exophobia (2024)

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Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Explore and fight your way through a crashed human spaceship infested with relentless hordes of aliens as you become more powerful with exciting weapon upgrades and powerups in this retro inspired first-person shooter.


  • first-person
  • shooter
  • unforgiving
  • metroidvania
  • fps
  • boomer
  • action-adventure
  • combat
  • retro
  • reflexes
  • aliens
  • stylized
  • pixel
  • space
  • colourful

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