Is there a term for games with overly precise controls?
Solution 1:
There doesn't seem to be an "official" term for these. They're almost certainly a subset of the "simulation" genre, but the formal term depends on who you ask.
Octodad's Twitter account suggested "awkward-like".
This was part of a Twitter conversation around a Gamasutra article, where some other suggestions were made like "clumsimulation," "limb-disentanglers," and "QWOPlikes."
I'm personally fond of "bumblecore" myself, which was suggested by one of the Octodad designers.