Top Intentionally Awkward Controls Games

There are many different levels where you can play with spinners, plunge into the subtleties of handling weapons, milk a cow, take part in a Mexican duel with your friends, have a good time fishing, play chess or simply chat in an anonymous club.

Surgeon Simulator is an over-the-top operation sim, stitching together pitch-black humour with life-saving surgery. Become Dr. Burke, a would-be surgeon with a less than conventional toolkit, as he performs procedures on patients including the Heavy from TF2! ...is that a hammer?

You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!

Manipulate your wrists, elbows and shoulders to get the arrow to the bow, draw it, aim and fire!Probably Archery gives the player more control over the minutia of their joint movements with tons of crazy scenarios to conquer, multiplayer battles to fight and brutal target challenges to dominate.

Make Me LAG is the first game that features a revolutionary new control scheme: your character actions are determined by the game frame count! Use external softwares and other tricks to lower the FPS count and control your character to defeat evil monsters and save the world!

This is a game where you can learn about chopsticks while challenging physics-based puzzles with handling chopsticks. Inspired by Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

An honest comedy about anxiety and feeling awkward, played through painfully relatable mini games.

Become the fella. Walk on the stilts.

Swipe right for the brand new NON-VR crazy physics-based dating simulator, Table Manners! Tonight's the night, you've secured a date and you're off to the most glamorous restaurant you know, there's only one problem - you're a disembodied hand with a knack for catastrophe!

You wake up tied to an office chair in the middle of an empty room. A mysterious device with a 10-minute timer is attached to you. Explore the office floors, try not to tip over, and find a way to escape!

The surgeon-simulator inspired Tea-making game is now available on Steam! Using the latest KS-001 Robo-Arm, you must practise making various types of tea.

A piece of Steam history - THE FIRST EVER NON VALVE GAME TO APPEAR ON THE STEAM PLATFORM!

Uh oh, seems like your delivery bike got stolen, but the pizzas need to keep being delivered!

Slash Quest is a quirky action adventure with unconventional controls and unlikely heroes. Spin a magic talking sword through exotic lands, fight nasty creatures, overcome puzzles and make friends on your way to reunite it with its rightful wielder, the Queen.

A cantaloupe with strong hind legs feels incredible pain.

SPIN. BOUNCE. STRUGGLE... In Space, nobody can hear you rage.

Play as a Vacuum Cleaner! ACUVAC is a Cleaner Collectathon with Destruction, Limb Controls, and a mix of Arcade and Sandbox elements! Suck, Blow, and Swing your hose around in this vibrant, Physics-based Action-Adventure!

A physics, parkour adventure! Launch yourself up a collection of biomes to reach the summit. Compete against friends by pushing them off platforms to throw them off course. Explore a unique world as a fish out of water.

A simulator for showing the way of writing and drawing in ancient China.

Tilt and jump your way out of the depths of a grand city. A difficult game where falling is your biggest obstacle, get used to starting over. Don't get too tilted :)

SPINGUN is a "manic two-button arcade shooter". Two buttons. One spaceship. Zero chance to survive.

Aim for 1st place! Collect and customize 20 drivers, race to increase your rank, make a comeback with food items and go insanely fast with 5 engine options!

You're Count Meowcula, a vampire cat that opened a barbershop. Wash and cut hairs, also clean your establishment and try not to bite your clients in this creepy cute game with minigames and chaotic controls. Manage your instincts and your reputation. Who said that beauty does not require sacrifices?

Cranked Up is an offbeat and challenging platformer game where you control rocket-powered donuts trying to save the world from an evil pizza.

A physics-based platformer with unique controls and a pun-laden narrator. Jump, stick, and attempt to roll a loop over obstacles. Perhaps this game will teach you patience. Stick with it! I'll be right there with you. In your earhole. *Plorp*

You take on the role of a lost astronaut who must return to the spaceship in zero-gravity space. Refill oxygen, avoid obstacles, and head towards the destination. Discover endless possibilities in this unique space adventure!

The hilarious game about the complexity of conversation. Move your tongue and lips to make your words come out and try not to let your face explode.

Foodie Bear is an adorkable platform action game. Our fat hero will eat a lot during the journey. He will become fatter and fatter, face more dangers at the same time. He will eat his favorite ice cream eventually !!

Platforming is much harder when you don't have a jump button! Walk, jump, climb and parkour by directly controlling each leg of a confused baby robot. Go from a glitching toddler to a somersaulting acrobat in the story mode, share a multi-legged robot, or compete against friends in minigames!

Climb huge mountains, impale hundreds of enemies, and solve tricky physics puzzles... all using only a spear. Pole-vault yourself to victory in this epic joust-'em-up adventure — or face your friends in online co-op and PvP multiplayer!

You're all bound up and stuck in a hospital gown, but that won't keep you down! Hop to it in this silly 3D physics based parkour platformer, Bound Up & Squirming!

Goblins are prohibited from entering a local tavern, but luckily, they hatched a cunning plan. Move and balance the three goblins to help them quench their thirst and end goblin discrimination in this cute wobbling simulator.

Skate through an increasingly burdensome path by controlling your individual feet and body tilt in this desperately difficult challenge game.

Swing through ropes and overcome obstacles.

A short horror game in where you retrieve captured creatures in an abandoned scientific installation with your fishing ship.

In this difficult-to-master Foddian adventure, embark on a hilariously BRUTAL mission as Jeff, a turtle with massive human legs trying to find his father! Spin, Jump, and Zoom through the world as quickly as you can, your father awaits!

A rage-inducing skill based game with a dynamic story that unfolds following the player choices

Human Rocket Person is an absurd & fun platformer where you jump & fly through different levels on your trusted pogo stick using ass-juice as fuel. It’s unbearably hard and by the end of this game, you will never play a platformer again.

The lion fly in the sky... because King of Beasts.

Take control of Vandozer's three pistons to jump, skid, and cling your way through many challenging levels!

This difficult video game is living proof of how difficult it is to make video games.

رجل عالق في برميل وسط صحراء مليئة بالتحديات! استخدم الماوس لتقفز وتدحرج وكافح نحو القمة. لعبة فيزيائية تعتمد على الدقة والإصرار، غلطة واحدة قد تعيدك للبداية! A man stuck in a barrel in a desert of challenges! Use your mouse to jump, roll, and climb to the top. One mistake can send you back to start!

You are a machine learning model tasked with driving an active ragdoll in a computer physics simulation. Take manual control of your feet to retain balance, walk, navigate obstacles, and perform various tasks. A challenging game partially inspired by Bennett Foddy's work.

Inspired by true events. Drifting the giant cargo ship through a tiny, winding canal... What could go wrong?

Circle Tank is a one-button minimalist coffee-break tank action game. Through three acts, mash uncontrollably as an onslaught of cuboid enemies threaten your existence. Intentionally awkward controls make this a rage-inducing challenge that will put you to the test. Can you survive?

A retro-ish, rhythm-ish game about catching raindrops and dodging hazards with an unusual two-level control scheme. You've got to try it to understand it.

Guppy is a 2D watercolor fish simulation. Hide in the shade of lilies and venture carefully into the open in search of food. Try not to get eaten.

An intern in an intergalactic corporation managing the universe. Use your tentacle to perform unusual office tasks and try to not destroy all life on the planets you look after. Every day brings completely new challenges. Expect everything - chainsaw robots, bug infestation, space trips, and more.

A digger. No transmission. No steering. No brakes. No problem! BH Trials is an obstacle course game where you only control the digger's articulated arm. Crawl, climb, avoid the obstacles, and solve the puzzles in a unique driving game. Control a mechanical spider in the up to 4-players co-op.

It's a difficult game about a man with hooks.

In 2083, I couldn’t survive, I started stealing takeout food.This is a 3D shooting game with a story-oriented approach. It is very simple to play, and the whole story has over 10,000 Chinese words.

The game that simply confuses your fingers.

Hovering in the sky over Edo City with a loincloth! A jet pack firefighting 3D action feelinggame with the most mysterious operation ever!

Ball is Life is a challenging 3D precision platformer and visual novel with simple levels and plenty of balls. Hop to the beat of a lo-fi soundtrack and discover new shenanigans.

Physics-based arcade game that will leave you in stitches and begging for more. Unleash your 'special web fluid' to swing across the city, defeat neuter drones, and collect adult magazines.

Help your partner perform the heist of a lifetime! Send him instructions for how to get to each vault and make a getaway with your newly found fortune!

Turn your keyboard into a chaotic physics toy! Solve creative challenges across 24 levels using nothing but your keys in this quirky, tactile puzzler.

Control the UFO. Carry the Luggage. DON'T DROP IT. – A simple yet challenging foddian game for aliens.

Octodad: Dadliest Catch is a game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about his life. Octodad's existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodan...

You’re a machine learning specialist who makes neural networks but your cat seems to be better at it. Now you must solve puzzles to build a cat-to-human translation system (who knows what else this cat is capable of!). Earn a fortune, buy kickass cat outfits, learn how machine learning really works!