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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
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator
The game challenges players with progressively harder puzzles and realistic tool usage, providing feedback and skill…
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+4.0
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Puzzles require intellectual challenge, logic, and interpretation of complex clues, providing satisfying skill-based…
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+4.0
HELLCARD
Game involves strategic planning, skillful card play, and overcoming challenging enemies with feedback on performance…
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+4.0
How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country
Game requires strategic thinking, resource management, and timing to succeed; skill trees impact gameplay effectiveness.
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+4.0
Inverted Angel
The game demands skillful reasoning and interpretation of subtle narrative cues, with challenging puzzle-solving and…
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+4.0
Legend Battles
The game demands skillful play with complex AI, tactical decision-making, mastery of specialists, and challenging…
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+4.0
Logic Town
The game offers a range of puzzle difficulties, tests logical deduction skills, and provides feedback on mistakes…
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+4.0
Mega Mosaic
The game requires logical deduction and skillful reasoning to solve a massive, complex puzzle with feedback on errors.
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+4.0
Mosaic of the Strange
The game offers logical deduction puzzles with increasing complexity and multiple difficulty settings that challenge…
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+4.0
Odallus: The Dark Call
The game offers challenging combat and boss fights that require learning patterns and skillful execution, rewarding…
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+4.0
Pale Coins
Combat is challenging and requires skillful timing and strategy; progression through leveling, attribute allocation…
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+4.0
Pray Game
Combat is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful resource and ability management, with a steep learning curve…
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+4.0
Scoot
Game offers challenging trick execution and skill mastery; players report difficulty and learning curve.
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+4.0
ShapeHero Factory
Game challenges players to optimize factory layouts and resource management under time pressure, rewarding skillful…
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+4.0
Space Gladiators
The game is challenging with a high skill ceiling, requiring mastery of combat mechanics, enemy patterns, and strategic…
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+4.0
Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers
The game is challenging with skill-based dodging and shooting, requiring learning enemy patterns and reflexes…
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+4.0
Star Realms
Game requires skillful deck building, strategic card purchasing, and tactical play to overcome opponents and…
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+4.0
Stella Sora
Combat requires skillful dodging, timing, and strategic team building; players receive feedback through challenging…
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+4.0
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors
The game demands skillful timing, positioning, and mastery of character moves; difficulty ramps up and rewards player…
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+4.0
The Pale Beyond
The game challenges players with survival resource management and strategic crew assignments, requiring skillful…
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+4.0
Vector
Game requires precise timing, skillful execution, and memorization to achieve 3-star completions and collect bonuses.
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+4.0
Wee Tanks!
Game offers challenging levels, boss fights, and survival mode requiring skill and mastery; players report difficulty…
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+4.0
X3: Terran Conflict
Steep learning curve with complex mechanics requiring skill development and mastery.
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+4.0
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
Game offers challenging AI, especially in Challenge mode, requiring skill and strategic thinking.
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