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+4.0
Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes
The game offers tactical challenges requiring strategic thinking, planning, and skillful unit management, with…
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+4.0
Highrise City
The game offers complex challenges in resource management, production chains, and balancing city growth, requiring…
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+4.0
Last Epoch
The game offers meaningful skill challenges, build experimentation, and progression feedback, with a satisfying…
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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
Marathon
High skill ceiling with challenging PvP and PvE, steep learning curve, rewarding mastery of gunplay and tactics.
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+4.0
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Combat is challenging and requires strategic thinking; players feel rewarded by mastering mechanics and overcoming…
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+4.0
NGU INDUSTRIES
The game involves complex optimization, balancing production chains, and strategic research choices that challenge…
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+4.0
Night of the Dead
Game involves skillful base building, trap design, combat, resource management, and progression through leveling and…
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+4.0
Pizza Connection 2
The game requires skillful management, strategic planning, and micromanagement to succeed, with challenging campaign…
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+4.0
Rush Royale
Game requires strategic thinking, quick decision-making, and mastery of deck upgrades and merges to succeed.
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+4.0
RUSSIA BATTLEGROUNDS
Game is described as difficult with high challenge (Dark Souls level), requiring skill to survive against many enemies…
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+4.0
Shining Soul II
The game demands skillful real-time combat, strategic stat and skill point allocation, and mastery of charge attacks…
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+4.0
Star Shelter
Game involves skillful zero-G movement, resource prioritization, survival tactics, and mastering crafting and combat…
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+4.0
侠客风云传(Tale of Wuxia)
Requires skillful management of stats, strategic turn-based combat, and mastery of various mini-games
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+4.0
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
Combat is tactical and challenging, requiring strategic thinking and mastery; puzzles vary in difficulty and require…
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters
The game is challenging and punishing, requiring skillful tactical play and mastery of complex mechanics, rewarding…
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+4.0
WASTED
Challenging gameplay with skill-based combat, learning curve, and strategic resource management
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+4.0
Wretch: Divine Ascent
Game requires skillful planning, understanding of item synergies, and tactical thinking to optimize builds and counter…
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+4.0
Ashen Empires
Game involves skill mastery, strategic combat, and complex tradeskills requiring player effort and learning.
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+4.0
Card Survival: Fantasy Forest
Game is challenging with complex survival mechanics requiring skill, planning, and learning from failures.
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+4.0
Final Upgrade
The game involves complex logistics puzzles, optimization of production chains, and skillful management of resources…
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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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+4.0
Ghost Exorcism INC.
The game requires skillful use of tools, understanding ghost behaviors, and strategic exorcism, with a learning curve…
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+4.0
HELLDIVERS™ 2
High skill ceiling with challenging combat, requiring teamwork, strategic use of stratagems, and mastery of mechanics…
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