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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
Karting Superstars
Game offers skill-based driving mechanics, challenging AI, and time trials that reward mastery and improvement.
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+4.0
MachineCraft
Steep learning curve requiring skill and technical understanding to build functional machines; players report rewarding…
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+4.0
PGA TOUR 2K23
Game offers challenging swing mechanics, skill trees, and realistic physics rewarding player skill and mastery.
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+4.0
Pizza Express
The game offers a challenging balance of fast-paced pizza making and strategic management, requiring skillful…
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+4.0
Rotwood
Combat is skill-based with combos and dodging; players improve through practice and mastering weapons; some grind for…
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+4.0
Safety First!
Game requires skillful coordination and dexterity to master challenging physics-based puzzles.
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+4.0
SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3
The game requires strategic thinking, learning unit roles, and mastering complex mechanics, providing skill challenges…
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+4.0
The Blackout Club
The game requires skillful stealth, teamwork, and strategic use of gadgets, with a learning curve and challenge…
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+4.0
The Surge
Challenging combat requiring skill, timing, and learning enemy patterns; progression through upgrades and mastery of…
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+4.0
THYSIASTERY
The game requires skillful tactical combat, resource management, and strategic skill development to overcome…
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+4.0
Warcube
Combat requires skillful timing, aiming, and chaining combos; players receive feedback and can improve their…
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+4.0
Wizards and Warlords
The game involves mastering complex mechanics, managing multiple systems, and overcoming strategic challenges with…
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+4.0
Crimson Oath
Combat requires skillful parrying, timing, and pattern recognition; bosses are challenging and demand mastery.
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+4.0
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
The game demands understanding complex political, economic, and diplomatic systems, with a steep learning curve and…
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+4.0
Crookz - The Big Heist
Challenging tactical gameplay requiring skillful timing, planning, and execution with feedback from mission success and…
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+4.0
Dungeon Siege II
The game offers skill-based combat, tactical decisions, and character progression with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Elsword
The game requires skillful combo execution and mastery of character abilities, with challenging PvE and PvP content…
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+4.0
Fast and Low
Game is challenging with skill-based shooting, tactical decision making, and requires significant brain usage.
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+4.0
Gallipoli
Gunplay is challenging with realistic recoil, suppression effects, and ballistics requiring skill and tactical thinking.
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+4.0
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Game demands skillful aiming, movement, and knowledge of weapon mechanics; described as easy to learn but hard to…
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+4.0
Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition
The game offers challenging bullet hell gameplay requiring good reflexes and skillful dodging, with adaptive difficulty…
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+4.0
Idle Hacking: An Inaction RPG
Game rewards skillful optimization, theorycrafting, and strategic decision-making with complex crafting and progression…
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+4.0
Joe Danger
The game offers skill-based challenges with increasing difficulty and rewards mastery of timing, combos, and precision.
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+4.0
Kingpin — Life of Crime
The game is challenging with punishing combat requiring skill, strategy, and mastery of mechanics; players receive…
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