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+4.0
Strategic Mind: Blitzkrieg
The game offers challenging tactical gameplay with complex mechanics, unit customization, and skill progression…
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+4.0
Tap Dungeon
The game challenges players with tactical turn-based combat and strategic skill combinations, rewarding skillful play…
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+4.0
The Darkest Tales — Into the Nightmare
Challenging platforming and combat requiring skill and learning; some complaints about floaty controls but overall…
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+4.0
The Haunted: Hells Reach
The game challenges players with increasing waves of enemies, requiring skillful shooting, melee combos, and strategic…
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+4.0
The Last Flame
The game offers a challenging learning curve with complex mechanics, requiring skillful decision-making and mastery of…
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+4.0
The RPG Engine
Engages users in complex map building, terrain sculpting, character customization, and use of many assets requiring…
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+4.0
Toki Tori 2+
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful reasoning and mastery of mechanics, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
The game offers challenging AI, tactical gameplay, and a leveling system rewarding skillful play and strategy.
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+4.0
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful spatial reasoning and precise triangle placement.
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+4.0
Trickster VR: Co-op Dungeon Crawler
Combat requires skillful timing, aiming, and strategy with varied enemy types and difficulty progression.
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+4.0
Unexplored
The game is challenging with skill-based combat, puzzle solving, and requires learning item interactions and enemy…
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+4.0
Vagrus - The Riven Realms
Game is challenging with complex mechanics requiring skillful management and strategic planning; punishing but fair…
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+4.0
Warhammer: Vermintide 2
The game features a high skill ceiling with challenging combat mechanics, requiring mastery of blocking, dodging, and…
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+4.0
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Combat is complex and layered, requiring skillful timing, positioning, and resource management, with a steep learning…
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+4.0
Zombie Panic! Source
Game requires skillful teamwork, resource management, and tactical play; players learn maps and weapon usage to improve…
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+4.0
ZomDay
Game offers challenging waves, boss fights, skill upgrades, and weapon mastery; players report satisfying combat and…
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+4.0
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
The game is challenging with complex mechanics, requiring skillful management of units, spells, and strategy to…
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+4.0
Arcanists
The game has a steep learning curve, skill-based turn-based combat, ranked play, and strategic depth requiring mastery…
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+4.0
Avernum 3: Ruined World
The game features tactical turn-based combat with strategic positioning, skill development, and difficulty settings…
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+4.0
BATTLETECH
The game offers challenging tactical combat requiring skillful positioning, heat management, and mech customization…
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+4.0
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Game involves skillful combat, strategic resource management, and puzzle solving with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Buriedbornes2 - Dungeon RPG -
The game has a steep learning curve, requires skillful management of limited skill uses, strategic planning, and…
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+4.0
DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin
High skill ceiling with challenging combat, boss fights, and PvP; requires learning enemy patterns and mastering…
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+4.0
Deathtrap
Requires strategic trap upgrades, character skill builds, and active combat to overcome increasingly difficult waves.
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