Most painful game you played

[Lune]

What's the most difficult game you played, for me its far cry 1

[Irene ❤]

Contra
Enemy runs around, steps on your leg and you died

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

E. Y. E Divine Cybermancy with difficulty and enemy waves set to max.

I think that difficulty was balanced for 5+ players in co-op.

[Birds]

Some joke custom maps in wc3. A few of them had gameplay elements where it was clear the author wanted it to be fun, but they just weren’t.

[Grynn]

100% Orange Juice. Sometimes you make all the right moves and still lose

Also, shout-out to Fallout NV. The game itself isn't difficult but trying to get it running anywhere near stable and not spazzing out makes my soul yearn for death.

[EpirusWarriorμολὼνλαβέ]

Just play Field of glory empires at suicidal level, description : the question will not be how you win, but how many turns you will survive.

[Basarab Laiota]

gotta agree with Far Cry 1, those harder difficulties were bull

[Bergman]

Ghosts and goblins (nes, Famicom)

[Mr. Smiles]

Probably some virtual boy game after about an hour of play.

[EpirusWarriorμολὼνλαβέ]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Bergman:

Ghosts and goblins (nes, Famicom)

I have played when I was kid in console, have beaten using only one coin while it was in
arcade machines, after few try of course.

[Lune]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Basarab Laiota:

gotta agree with Far Cry 1, those harder difficulties were bull

Ikr, even the enemies instantly headshot you inside a tent

[76561199375289074]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde = harder than darksouls

[dobrowol]

Elden Ring

[gugnihr]

I have tried many excessively difficult games but usually I don't really play them for long if they are too difficult in most cases I just give up.
I remember in particular a few ones... Ninja Gaiden, I tried the first stage for a few minutes, I was not even too interested I just tried it because so many people loved it so much but personally there was nothing particularly interesting for me in it and it was obscenely difficult so I just forgot about it I would haven't liked it that much anyway.
And expecially Shadow of the beast 2, this one is a game that I would really want to like, on the Amiga it has wonderful music, wonderful art style, the game is interesting but it is so absolutely crazy with its difficulty... It throws waves of enemies at you giving you bare bones controls and not enough speed to deal with them and this is only the beginning... this game also has "puzzles" in it, like an adventure, and in many many cases if you do somethimg wrong you just softlock yourself, but there is no handholding, you do not exactly know what you are supposed too do so often, if only there weren't waves of enemies succesfully trying to kill you around every corner, you would just end up wandering around trying to find the next thing to do while instead you have just softlock yourself for some mistake without even realizing it, except you never get to that point because those stupid enemies already killed you. Basicalòly when you start the game you are dead, and if you were not there would have been puzzles for you to solve that don't tell you clearly if you fail them and also don't give you a second chances in most cases if you fail them you just need to quit and start a new game because you have made it impossible to complete it but it does not clearly say that to you, but hey, you are already dead anyway so who cares?

[Schindler's Lifts]

Overwatch.

I play games to have fun, not to be constantly yelled at for having too much fun.

[Shiro♌]

If not Witcher 3, Othercide, then probably Tales of Arise.
I mean.. I'd have expected to beat all final stages - bosses - On the easiest difficulty on the very first try, yet, I have failed numerous times with each.

Then again, I have never enjoyed playing on the hardest difficulties, they're there for players, who're truly investing time to master the game's gameplay afterall, and not for the players like me, who're there for the possible characters' development, lore in general, and the presented story.

I don't believe, we can and shall include multiplayer game into the list, because this would be way too region and sometimes even situation dependable, whereas difficulties of singleplayer games are stale and never changing, unless you were to use some mods..
However, if we're gonna include multiplayer games aswell, then I'll choose those seperately.. In particular, I'd go with Rocket League, Valorant, and Tekken.

Even though I shall be able to beat more than ~70% of the entire playerbase of Rocket League now and back then, where's the fun in doing so? Sweating, mindlessly doing the same thing over and over.. I'd rather take the time to think about my playstyle, gameplay, and play as a team player rather than as effective as possible..
When it comes to Valorant, I've mostly carried aim memory from CS:GO, so I do succeed at around ~65% of pure skill fights, but lose over ~70% of fights with abilities included, as I don't even have a year of experiences.
The same kinda applies to CS:GO, as I have refused to learn smoke line-ups, pop flashes' lineups, and all of that advanced and completely unnecessary stuff for casual gameplay.
I'd compare Tekken to the boring line-ups. If you don't know all the movement sets, how does each other look like and what kind of moves of the other characters it affects, you're simply bound to lose to veterans, as literally nobody plays Tekken nowadays besides those Tekken fans, who have sunk hours into their games.