There are some fairly easy games from the 1980s, such as the original Super Mario Bros (at least using warp zones).

Dark Souls is the only game on this list I HAVE beaten.

@@SillySnowFox same

@@hakanstorsater5090 I still don't know a regular person that can beat the original mario bros WITH warp zones. AND no save states. "easy" lmao

@Brendan Lewis Not your mom

haha, too good

Technically the hardest game ever is the book Winds of Winter.

World's hardest game: *ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF*

vavle is lazzy as hell i dont think they started making it yet :/ just look what happend to tf2 they didnt update it since 2011 :'(

@@ThatRandomGuyKZfaq easy game honestly

I was waiting for a GD comment LOL

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Must admit that GD and Mario Maker doesn't count on this. Every game where the levels are designed by players themselves are out of this world... Who the hell did those Geometry dash Demons, not even considering those such as a game level... ;) Those are just cactus jack right up to ass.

But the actual Geometry Dash levels are insanely easy. The game shouldn't be on here if you make the game harder yourself by playing user made levels

how difficult do you want a char in crypt of the necrodancer to be? Coda: YES

I still think meat boy is harder, one of the few games I didn't finish.

@@Gaze73 I feel like those games are on two different levels. Meat Boy has very precise platforming but gives the player infinite lives and the levels are really short, while Battletoads has much easier gameplay but you only get 3 continues. To me, Battletoads feels more difficult because of that, as it takes so much more time to actually get to practicing the level you're stuck on once you get far into the game and you don't have very much room for failure, whereas in Super Meat Boy, you can just take it level by level and all the levels are pretty short. I _did_ get stuck on the very final level of the main story for a long time, though, and if you count the Dark World levels in, then Super Meat Boy's infinitely harder. Still, I think if you can beat Battletoads (without cheating), you can absolutely beat Super Meat Boy as well.

@@GuyFromSomeWorld Of course I beat the story mode of SMB, but the dark levels were insane, I think I quit in the salt world.

I beat f zero gx on very hard 😏

people overestimate the difficulty of these games man… not to knock your accomplishment but battle roads isn’t even top 50 hardest games of all time

Hi, happy new year bud

How about both?

Wait, are you 2 separate beings, NANI!??!

@@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache Happy New Year, man.

Interesting so no same account :0

I agree! Ninja Gaiden should definitely be on the list!

That goddamn wind

This list could have been populated completely by NES titles...

ninja gaiden 3 gave me the most trouble. i honestly may have just stoppee playing it lol

David Whittle I was thinking the same thing! As someone who beat All of them on master difficulty before Dark Souls was a thing, I’m biased on what I think a hard game is. Haha. I was expecting it in this list.

Ty

Wtf, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is easy. How it is harder, than Silver Surfer and I wanna be the guy and Celeste. Very, very overrated.

@@user-ey5xw2nx9s Have you played Crash 4? I completed it (106%) and that was probably the hardest I've ever done in a videogame. I almost cried out of frustration.

@@babbisp1 Sorry, I didn't. Maybe, it's hardest

@@user-ey5xw2nx9s Why is there still people that think "I found it easy" = "it's easy".

@DreSaidSo stop wot

Memories

@@legends166gd7 don’t stop please these are hilarious lol

No, no i have not

Gd?

Yeah me to

You’re giving me hope for Dark Souls

Play Tubular Worlds my friends... Its a Shmup but not a Normal + Not really a "Bullet-Hell"shmup, but its sick, 3 lives*, no continues, a stupid shield you get after collecting 100 blue orbs ! that only shrugs off 1 small bullet, bigger ones + Lasers are deadly, AND after you died you loose all weapons and start the Level from the beginning..... Have Fun ^^

@@RUTH-km6ev "Shump" sounds a bit to jewish for me ;) , but I will have a look :)

Hollow knight is also more difficult than Dark Souls. The pantheon and the path of the way

yeah whoever was playing that vvvvvv game and the lost levels really sucked and kept making the same stupid mistakes repeatedly. it was probably the same person playing those 2 games.

And cuphead, he literally gets hit and then walks straight into the boss.

Cuphead is hard but not as any Contra

It's like those damn mobile game ads that show an idiot failing to win but they make the same stupid mistake 4 times.

*naah* 7:25

I don’t think we count games you can’t beat

Well in the gamboy version there is an end after level 8

People have basically beaten it

💀

@@kingenderdragona4791 It is possible to beat Tetris. There is a TAS run that reached the end. The game crashes at level 237. This crash is considered the end of the game, same as in Pacman. It is absolutely humanly impossible though. In fact, the vast majority of levels in the game are humanly impossible and haven't been reached by anyone.

"Look how hard it is"

El Pana Sintético lol

El Pana Sintético lol i thought so too

Yep lol

@@thewhiterabbit133 bruh

Gamers: Oh, crap....

Oh Sh*t 😂🤣

I just give up, you are omnipresent

Me: *I'm smiling but I'm angry in the inside as I Yeeted the Controller out of the Window*

Rayth He’s in many places but, not wherever I personally go.

Ye

these games r not even close compared to extreme demons thatPeople are trying to verify

Yeah, why isn’t GD there

@@callmedoruxisnoob probably because they only counted the level that robtop make

God this hits WAY different now that slaughterhouse and firework are verified. probably the pinnacle of modern possibilities for human standards.

Finally someone recognized it

Indeed

I never saw _one_ CAVE game. Where's Dodonpachi? Where's Mushihime-sama? Where's Ketsui?

Cuphead is fucking brutal though. It's a very hard game.

@@davidmock6981 bruh, i've beaten it in 1 Day

@@davidmock6981 i havent played it but from what ive seen of people playing it its frustrating

Cuphead is difficult on it's harder mode but still manageable

I bet it's a top 30 contender But then... DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION A

My brother beat it once because I said he couldn’t do it. I’m still not sure how he pulled it off.

@@Nihontopride - Man. It must take some balls to prove a statement like that wrong.

Yes with dragon lair

Ita hard to believe somebody remade a level from that game on Super Mario Maker 2.

I totally agree, both are great games by the way.

Indeed

wish you got a reset in that game because i fkd up in it majorly when i was young and stupid.

You are spot on believe it or not.

@Simon Dewitt I'm won't disagree with you that having money makes your life easier but isn't everything, even with money your life could be miserable like a failed marriage(which for a rich person is twice as hard and tasking), and if there are kids is very painful or an illness that no amount of money can heal, even a wrong comment on social media has turned celebrities's life upside down. Life is dificult with or without money if you don't know how to play the game.

@@yordan826 Yeah, but you have money.

Life is not that hard. I beat 3 other players at that board game

Ninja Gaiden NES without save states is fucking brutal, those eagles are insane with their knockback damage and scroll-back respawn bs

I see you too are also a man of culture

I thought the same thing.. especially like Ninja Gaiden 3 The Ancient Ship of Doom on the NES.. Christ!!! I still can't believe I never beat it.

That's right, Ninja Gaiden 1 after level 4 becomes a living hell on earth

NES versions, or even Ninja Gaiden Black...absolutely brutal

Replay factor is amazing, great game

Yeah rage games shouldn't count

Agreed.

"Getting Over It" for example is not hard and definetly not a rage game. You can't talk about difference if streamers greatly influence the way you think about a game.

@@Littlefighter1911 Getting over it is not a rage game? What's the definition of a rage game then?

what does halo 2 legendary count as

@Jalen Payton thought I was the only one lol

I still play this game religiously! Im pissed, it took me years to complete that game. I had some really awesome ninja cinimas of team missions.. and then the data got corrupted so I had to start over last month. 😭

Took me 5 years to finish it

Yeah where was Ninja Gaiden, but I guess they could only choose two from soft games otherwise the whole list would be full of from soft games 😹

@@unending_agony Ninja Gaiden is not From Soft

Yea..Me sad

bruh rayman is easy af i beat the whole game when i was like 8 lol

i swear if i see 1 hate comment

Your opinion, maybe you’re just naturally better at platformers than most others, including me.

Gradius III arcade literally takes the unfair title. I've not seen a ton of people ever beat the game without tool assisting, and the ones who have beat it legit have never done so on one life. These Watch Mojo guys would cry and cower in fear over Gradius 3 arcade.

@@Bloodreign1 try Hardcore Minecraft oh my f****** God that's like death mode from Doom cuz you only get one respond unless you're you're a freaking little cheater

@@NatetheNintendofan nah man dark souls is harder

More unfair is Forbidden Siren.

@@NatetheNintendofan lol you call that hard?

He hit with that one pixel

@@sabbathjackal lol true

Then you wont be depressed. Knowing how much you have to try before you can beat it is what making you depress.

It took me about 2 days to beat Celeste. Then I got to the B-sides.......

I didn't find Celeste so hard tbh, including B-sides

Shlok Kalekar same

@@captainperiwinkle Play C-sides and Ch 9 and collect golden strawberries (included 1A dashless) then come talk to me. :B

Try Stalin Subway 2 then! Compared to that game, Dark Souls and Devil May Cry 3 are lemonade.

Congrats bro

Right? Took me 3000+ deaths to beat farewell wbu?

@@DJMrWaiter I don't know but propably even more, I spent hours on end on that.

@@tungdil_1458 mad props lol

That game isn't hard, it is just a programming and disigne nightmare

Geometry dash harder

This exactly! Same with celeste mods too, they wipe the main game completely out the picture when it comes to sheer difficulty it's insane

We count beating the game. And according to top players "beating the game" is to beat atleast some of the hardest levels and finish all of the main game stuff.

And isnt that a good thing that it has a difficulty chart? The moment we count are the hardest moments in the game. For example you can play on easy mode for cuphead. We dont count that. We count the expert difficulty as its difficulty because we choose the hardest parts of the game to determine the difficulty.

And its beating levels. Its like on cuphead but you can choose from all levels. Cuphead's earlier levels are easy.

very late but as someone who has beaten the first and last dark souls game as well as sekiro, beating only the main levels without playing any online levels and "completing" the game is harder than all of them.

Also undertale nutral is pretty hard

@@thatminecraftplayer8767 lmao how

@@imperialhollow5902 im terrible at any game thats not minecraft

I used to cry and scream at the top of my lungs at the TV. I also broke controllers and put a few holes in the wall. My parents' reaction ranged from mocking me to grounding me, and I deserved it.

@@GinjaNinja77 Getting grounded from video games: more than fair. Mocking: never ok. Parents do it sometimes anyway, so I'm not saying your folks must have been monsters, but don't go around thinking you deserve that even if you were a terror.

I use to get hella mad would yell fuck outta nowhere when I died nothing too crazy and throw the controller but always at the pillow I knew damn well if I broke it I’ll be the one buying the replacement not my parent lol

@@nickfitzpatrick2152 I stopped throwing controllers when they went cordless and over $50 haha

you beat it, then the game is like "yeah nope lmao" because EVERY LEVEL after that one is harder.

Never passed this damn third level. Too bad, the animation was really nice for the Nes, with the big punches and kicks..

Me and a friend have decieded to finish the game before we go to sleep, we have finished it at sun rise after ~9 hours and wanted to kill someone after seing the ending

I came to the last lvl :) After googling i apperently came the the second last lvl :( Still tho...

I got past the snake lvl or the or the jet lvl, whatever one comes later

Oh man turbo tunnel... The place where if your friend died, you both restart.

I found it significantly easier than castlevania cota and the dark souls game. That being said it’s my favorite game of all time

@@famedgamer2594 same, far easier.

IKR, watching this was harder than getting the C-side summit golden strawberry in Celeste

And that's just on Easy mode.

@@Alexander-nr5tt You’re not Alexander.

Strider Stryker not really, I got my first job on the first attempt.

*finding a good job*

LEX there you go

i'm a kid i don't have to worry about dat yet! if ur a adult den i'm out!

Strider Stryker I identified as a T Babe on my first and got hired that week not kidding

DLC is tough tho and some B sides are hard too.

Geometry Dash is really easy in itself, although some there are some very difficult community made levels.

Steve Johnson yep

Yes

Steve Johnson the first few stages you should be able to beat in like five tries but the harder once just feel impossible

I agree

Kepabra There is super meat boy in the list

Its not on the list, cuz the general game isnt that hard. Its only P5 and some of them with bindings. I think they meant games that r hard to beat the regular game, thats all.

@@blackswan7098 its still part of the regular game, if you buy voidheart edition that wont be a problem because it comes with every dlc. And the dlcs are more like free downloadable updates

@@alextheconfuddled8983 true, but its a small part of the game and a huge difficulty curve. That would be like getting upset because FFXIV isnt on the list cuz savage raids r harder than most things in many games even tho its only the 1% of the game that 90% of players never experience...its not the "game" tho. Its like hyper lategame ONLY lol.

@@blackswan7098 They had megaman on the list because of achievements, I think it would be fair to count a dlc as part of the game, especially considering absolute radiance is easily THE hardest boss in any videogame. That's not even taking into consideration beating the pantheon 5 on radiant. I expected hollow knight to at least be top 5 after seeing the games on the list. Also it's still a massive part of the game in terms of play time.

Someone knows

Yea I Can't Even Beat One Extreme Demon

Tartarus

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No cap, but like .01% of players beat the top 10

Yep 😂

as soon as I heard Battletoads and Cup Head, my first thought was "The Mexican Runner" LOL (he has some amazing speed runs of both titles)

exactly what I thought as well. I beat the first one on my Dads NES, but I was never able to beat Castlevania III, and I hear that game is longer than the first as well

My five minutes of fame is having my name printed in Nintendo Power for finishing it. My kids haaaaaate it when I remind them of it.

@@Murf_Workshop Part 3 is definitely longer and twice as hard. I beat the original as well, and I actually made it to Dracula in 3 but I was never able to beat him.

Specifically the international version. For some absurd reason, enemies deal more damage during the last stages compared to the Japanese release.

I use Sypha for most of it.

It took me 1.5 years to beat one of the levels

​@@Reneryx one of the first levels

I can’t beat level 1...

Ben Amiibo Then learn how to play n00b

It took me 1 day to beat the first 10 levels with less then 2000 attempts

Except Dr Khal’s Robot

In the game I got hit hard multiple times and I die over a thousand times

So true lol

The point of that game. You die so much that you come back stronger

@@RomanTorchic I didn’t find that one that hard honestly

Yes I think so

@Prado I feel like it would depend on if weather or not we including the fan games that stick its original bullet hell formula. Also would it be against the rules to bring in the RNG patch of touhou. Or does it not count with how it mods the game.

@Prado cave.

they put a harder one so we can let it pass. It's not like they can fill the entire list with bullet hells

@Prado any game that's a bullet hell in general is much harder than dark souls, Japanese games with there 8 different difficulties scare me.... Your not human if you complete games like those.

and Mario Maker.

Actually, the top one would in fact be a mobile Game: GEOMETRY DASH When you get yo the hardest levels (aka the Extreme Demons) like Astral Divinity or Bloodlust you see how fucking hard that Game is.

Alvar GD i cant even beat stereo madness

@@alvargd6771 Those are only the levels made by the community. That shouldn't really be counted in the difficulty of the game itself.

@@genieinthepot2455 1) featured levels are choosed by the creator itself 2) featured levels are over 99.9% of levels, Every single one choosed by RobTop. 3) They have a difficulty robtop itself added into the game, "extreme demon" 4) the community Would be dead by now if RobTop didn't make featured levels a thing. 5) the featured levels give secreto coins, stars and orbs as well as RobTop's levels (apart from the custom levels he made that were tutoriales, memes and an animación of a "snake" 6) I played for like 2 years, so stop talking about shit you little noob

elden ring is one if the easiest games i have ever played

and shadows die twice

I would say that DS3 is the hardest of them all. Simply because the Bosses are sometimes too fast for your possible movement. But thats just my opinion My list from hardest to easiest would be: 1.Dark Souls 3 2.Dark Souls 2 3.Bloodborne 4.Dark Souls 1 Sekiro is in a hole other dimension and I never played Demons Souls

@@domikarus5237 Dark Souls 2 was the easiest game. And I actually blasted through Dark Souls 3 because I no-lifed Bloodborne haha but that was just my personal experience

@@Captain_Orphiel did you count the dlc's too? They are pretty fkd up :D

@@domikarus5237 I've beaten Darksouls I with no great effort, as for demon souls... f**k it, I simply can't, it's too damn hard. or... it's just me!

Celeste fucking sucked. The gameplay mostly

@@brehisvdnd1289 mm9 was actually good

I honestly don’t understand what people like so much about Celeste. It had a cookie cutter story of “overcoming and acknowledging you weakness to become a better person”. What is so great about the game that it distinguishes itself so much?

@@brehisvdnd1289 sounds like someone has a small truck and smaller hands

@@brehisvdnd1289 yes hello i would like ur opinion please

Lost Levels not the Original.

I was surprised to see that one on this list. It's hard but not that hard.

evil3drummer You have to beat the game 9 times to unlock the final worlds

@@evil3drummer SMB The Lost Levels is a brutally hard game. You'd know if you'd played it.

@@iwoomy752 Beat it several times lol

You are right Celeste is not that hard, at least as long as you avoid the b-sides and the other extra content. The standard game is challenging, but doable. The game is still fantastic though.

I disagree that game was insanely difficult, the reason anyone can beat it is because you instantly respawn with no repercussions in contrast to say darksouls where you lose your stuff and have a loading screen and everything respawns everytime

agreed. it's tough but nothing crazy

The B sides and C Sides are ridiculous.

Chapter 9 Have fun wasting hours of your life only to realize you aren’t even close to finishing

I played back to the future 2 on SNES. Not sure how similar it is. It was challenging for sure and took me months to finish, but I was also a kid. I doubt I'd struggle with it this much today.

They too forgot super gouls n' ghosts for SNES, it was the sequel, and its very difficult. I beated the game on professional mode recently.

@@delvincalixbustillo5379 Ghosts 'n Goblins is harder.

@@Darskul I had never played Ghosts n Goblins, but I want to. If I beated Super gouls n ghosts on professional mode I think I can beat that one.

@@delvincalixbustillo5379 Let me re-iterate, it's 100x harder.

@@Darskul OMG, if you say so... I will play beacuse I love hard games. Thanks for the recomendations.

The hardest things I have ever beaten out of a video game: 4. m 3. y 2. w 1. i 0. f -1. e

@@ThePikeOfDestiny I *Shot* *My* _Wife_

Maaaaaan the pantheon tho

Pantheon of Hallownest is just too much lmao, I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

good luck beating the D-sides

@waylon lewin wait what? Are they actually turning Celeste into a Netflix show? Dear God please no.

@waylon lewin Celeste is easy though, there's so many harder games, it's not even the hardest platformer

@Will Riley I agree. I didn't think Celeste was that hard. It did have some frustrating moments, but besides that not really. Also why is Hollow Knight not on this list!?!

@@twilightprincess3886 w/o Godmaster HK is easy though.

G_E_B yeah but god master exists

@Chloe Potter Yeah. Every weekend was a begging contest, with my mother as judge.

That's what made it so hard as two player mode was even harder than single player because of the friendly fire. Not only could you hit your partner, the game made it so that close combat was the norm so there was plenty of friendly fire. It's the hardest game I've ever played and it makes most games look easy. One of the very few games I've never managed to beat. Second was Ghouls and Ghost and Super Ghouls and Ghost as it only took two hits to get killed and there's very little health options. I did managed to beat both games once. Third for me was the Contra series as if it wasn't for the Konami code, those games were hard.

@@saysoun752 For me, that was only half of the problem. The other half was my brother being OBSESSED with the aspect, to the point of ignoring, avoiding & even HELPING the enemy beat me up. If it wasn't for KZfaq, I wouldn't know anything after level 2. But for what it's worth, it did allow me to discover a few details the creators threw in that most players didn't/don't know about.

10 shades of rhythm games

rhythm and pvp games are the only games that are actually hard. dark souls being hard is just a meme since the average joe can beat it in a couple of hours

Oh god..I shudder at the thought of Mega Man & Bass I had to freaking cheat codes to even finish that one. that game was tough as nails even as Bass the classic equivalent of Zero from the X games.

But could you beat airman

Better check the Bro-ble.

I saw that too! What the crap!? lol yikes

key to speeder bike level, loose so many times you win only due to muscle memory

I unlocked the AX cup and beat it on master fairly easy, but that's because I used broken ass great shark lmao

No one said it was your fault

Both are hard. To me DS2 is probably the hardest.

@@ManEaterBrainBug We all have opinions, but I disagree with what you said. DS2 is much more restricted in its world and level design. DS1 lets you wander into several hard areas like Blighttown or the Catacombs from the very start. DS2 tends to guide you along a few paths at a time. Majula only connects to 2 areas at the start: Tower of Flame and the Forest of Giants. The enemy placement and behaviour is much more tame; ranged attacks are very broken and having enemies walk back to their starting point if you lead them far away is an effective form of crowd control. The bosses tended to be similar in their mibesets as well, so you don't have to constantly adapt to a new set of moves, so the repetition is just training you for nearly every boss. DS1 doesn't have these most of the time and thus, it's a lot harder

@@chaoskiller6084 I find DS2 the hardest because it's gameplay is the weakest. It plays very slow and clunky, giving you fewer opportunity windows to react wich can become a nightmare in certain areas. In Iron Keep for instance (SotfS version) you get ganked into oblivion by Alonne Knights wich are simply much faster than you and you barely can even react to them. Also DS2 throws unbalanced bs at you like the Ancient Dragon boss fight.

@@ManEaterBrainBug Fair points, but the Iron Keep is a pain, but with range and good positioning along with a few secret walls, it's still possible to handle. Bosses that are unbalanced are usually avoidable, like Ancient Dragon and Gank Squad. I've never really noticed the clunky movement at all. This can be because of the difference in total playtime or our difference in preferability in controls.

demon's souls is the hardest for me, only one i haven't beaten. after that i would say sotfs is my hardest, especially if you count the dlcs. ds1 got really easy with the remastered version because lag was a large part of the challenge in ds1.