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+4.0
Death Roads: Tournament
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful positioning, deck management, and tactical…
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+4.0
DED
The game is challenging especially on Hardcore mode, requiring skillful timing, aiming, and strategic decision-making…
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+4.0
Dota Underlords
Game requires strategic thinking, skillful planning, and adaptation to evolving meta; players report satisfying…
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+4.0
Dread Templar
The game offers challenging combat, skill-based movement, and a progression system rewarding mastery and exploration.
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+4.0
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
The game demands skillful calculation of odds, strategic deck building, and adapting to enemy gimmicks, providing a…
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+4.0
Eternal Dread 3
Combat requires timing, dodging, stamina management, and strategic skill use; progression and skill mastery are…
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+4.0
Field of Glory: Empires
The game requires skillful management of complex systems like decadence, trade, and military tactics, rewarding mastery…
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+4.0
我来自江湖 From Jianghu
Combat is described as deep and strategic, requiring skill and tactical thinking; players improve through training and…
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+4.0
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
The game offers challenging AI, complex logistics, and tactical combat requiring skill and strategic planning.
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+4.0
Heroes Wanted
Game challenges players with strategic deck building, elemental synergies, and boss mechanics requiring skill and…
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+4.0
Hexarchy
Game offers meaningful skill-based decisions, strategic deck management, and tactical combat challenges.
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+4.0
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
The game is challenging with complex AI and requires skillful stealth and planning; players receive feedback via a…
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+4.0
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Combat involves skillful chaining of combos, exploiting enemy weaknesses, timing counters, and managing multiple…
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+4.0
Keyword: A Spider's Thread
The game challenges players with logical puzzles, deduction, and hacking-like mechanics requiring skillful observation…
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+4.0
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Game offers challenging logistics, resource management, and city layout puzzles requiring skill and optimization.
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+4.0
Little Racers STREET
The game offers skill-based racing with challenging AI, vehicle upgrades affecting performance, and difficulty levels…
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+4.0
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
The game features challenging tactical combat, boss fights requiring strategy, and skill upgrades that reward mastery…
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+4.0
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Combat is strategic and challenging with card mechanics and tactical positioning, requiring skill and planning.
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+4.0
Military Incremental Complex
Game involves skillful management of resources, crafting, and strategic prestige choices with feedback on progress and…
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+4.0
Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge
The game features challenging puzzles including sudoku, nonograms, renograms, and logic puzzles that require skill and…
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+4.0
Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰
The game challenges players with difficult puzzles, timing-based combat mechanics, and trial-and-error boss fights…
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+4.0
Partisans 1941
Requires skillful planning, timing, and execution of tactics; challenging AI and mission design.
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+4.0
Rebel Inc: Escalation
The game is challenging, requiring strategic thinking and skillful management of multiple complex systems to succeed.
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+4.0
Rise of Legions
Game is easy to learn but hard to master with a high skill ceiling, requiring strategic thinking, deck building, and…
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