Ask for the shape of the challenge.

The only game here that ships the site’s own thesis as a menu option — combat and puzzle difficulty are two separate settings, and the two are genuinely unrelated demands.

A fishing game with an inventory puzzle and a night timer. Panic is the mechanic, and the punishment for giving in to it is deliberately mild.

A card game that keeps changing what kind of game it is. The difficulty is noticing which rules you are allowed to break, and when.

The difficulty is logistics — weight, terrain and route planning — with combat as an interruption you are usually allowed to walk around.

No reflexes and no fights — you fail by having rolled badly on the question of who you decided to be twenty hours ago.

Nothing fails quickly. A road laid in the first hour becomes unfixable in the twentieth, and that delay is the only real difficulty in it.

A blockbuster that expects to be finished, with the actual demands parked in optional bosses you can walk past without the story noticing.

A city builder where the scarce resource is time and every law you sign is unrepealable. The storm arrives on schedule whether or not the city is ready.

The aircraft are modelled well past where the tutorials stop. An instrument approach in an airliner is a procedure most people learn outside the game entirely.

Orbital mechanics with no tutorial worth the name. It is endlessly patient about failure and completely unwilling to explain a delta-v budget.