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Popular, well-rated games with a strong competence score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Intravenous
The game demands skillful stealth, tactical planning, and precise combat; AI is challenging and punishing, rewarding…
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+4.0
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
The game offers challenging tactical turn-based combat requiring strategic thinking and skillful unit management…
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+4.0
KINGDOM HEARTS III + Re Mind (DLC)
Combat system is deep and challenging especially in DLC with varied boss patterns requiring skill and mastery.
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+4.0
Lonely Mountains: Downhill
Game offers challenging skill-based gameplay with time trials, leaderboards, and mastery of controls and tracks.
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+4.0
LONESTAR
Game requires skillful planning, resource management, and strategic thinking to optimize builds and overcome challenges.
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+4.0
Potionomics
The game challenges players with complex time management, potion crafting ratios, and strategic deckbuilding with…
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+4.0
Preserve
Challenging puzzle and scoring system requiring skillful planning and optimization; players report satisfaction from…
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+4.0
Serious Sam Classics: Revolution
Game challenges players with large hordes of enemies, boss fights, and requires skillful movement and weapon choice.
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+4.0
Sky Rogue
Challenging combat requiring skillful flying, aiming, and tactical decision-making.
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+4.0
Sol Survivor
The game demands strategic tower placement, ability timing, and adapting to enemy types, with challenging difficulty…
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+4.0
Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
The game challenges players with quick decision-making, memory, and managing complex market interactions under time…
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+4.0
The House of Da Vinci 2
The game offers a range of challenging puzzles requiring skill and logical thinking, with feedback through puzzle…
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+4.0
Waves 2: Notorious
Game offers escalating difficulty, skill-based combat, and feedback through combos and upgrades, challenging player…
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+4.0
WitchSpring3 Re:Fine - The Story of Eirudy -
The game emphasizes stat growth through training, crafting, and exploration, with visible impact on combat…
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+4.0
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
The game challenges players with time-sensitive missions and requires mastering flight controls and tactics, rewarding…
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+4.0
Battlefield 4™
High skill ceiling with vehicle mastery, weapon handling, and tactical team play; players receive feedback and can…
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+4.0
Black Ice
The game involves skillful FPS combat, strategic hacking, and character progression with feedback from loot and…
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+4.0
Crop Rotation
The game challenges players to master complex synergies, optimize builds, and overcome increasing difficulty with…
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+4.0
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
The game features tight, skill-based platforming with a high skill ceiling, rewarding mastery of movement mechanics and…
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+4.0
Doll Explorer Prologue
Challenging puzzle gameplay requiring precise planning and execution to achieve optimal solutions.
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+4.0
Drunk Driving Simulator
Game challenges players with difficult, unpredictable controls and requires skill to manage impaired driving and…
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+4.0
Earthworm Jim
The game is challenging, requiring mastery of complex controls like whip timing and precise platforming, with…
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+4.0
Escape Goat 2
The game offers challenging puzzles and platforming that require skill and problem solving, with feedback on…
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+4.0
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
The game requires mastering complex tactical combat, managing resources, and making strategic decisions with permadeath…
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