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Rune Coliseum
The game offers skillful turn-based combat with strategic deckbuilding and timing mechanics; players report a learning…
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+5.0
Parking Garage Rally Circuit
High skill ceiling with challenging drifting mechanics, leaderboard competition, and mastery of physics-based controls.
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+4.0
Lorn's Lure
The game demands precise platforming and mastery of complex movement mechanics, with a high skill ceiling especially in…
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+4.0
God of War Ragnarök
The game offers challenging combat requiring skillful timing, parrying, and strategy, especially on higher…
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+4.0
Beyond Shadowgate
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful thinking and problem solving, with feedback through deaths…
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+4.0
Faaast Penguin
Game rewards skillful timing, chaining attacks, and track knowledge; players report satisfying mastery and competitive…
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+5.0
Slackers - Carts of Glory
High skill ceiling with challenging controls, mastery of drifting, and pursuit of platinum medals on time trials.
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+4.0
UFO 50
Games range from challenging to very challenging, requiring skill mastery and rewarding player progression and…
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+4.0
Deadshot
Games require skillful aiming, reflexes, and strategic positioning; progression systems reward mastery and improvement.
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+4.0
Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action
Combat requires precise timing and mastery of complex mechanics, rewarding skillful play and strategic thinking, with…
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+5.0
Train Sim World® 5
The game demands skillful operation of trains, mastering complex safety systems, and precise braking, with tutorials…
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+5.0
Industry Idle
Game involves complex resource management, optimization, and strategic planning with a steep learning curve and skill…
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+4.0
Pyrene
Game offers deep strategic and tactical challenges with complex synergies and mechanics, rewarding skillful play and…
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+5.0
NanoApostle
High skill ceiling with challenging bosses requiring learning attack patterns, precise parrying, and mastery of…
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+4.0
PICO PARK 2
Game challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles requiring skill, timing, and coordination.
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+4.0
Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
The game offers skill-based platforming challenges, time trials, and boss fights that require mastery of movement and…
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+4.0
Dice Player One
The game challenges players with complex dice synergies, strategic planning, and adapting to bosses, rewarding skillful…
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+4.0
DeathSprint 66
High skill ceiling with challenging tracks, precise movement, and mastery of abilities required; players report…
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+4.0
Wild Bastards
Gameplay involves tactical planning, skillful FPS combat, and adapting to enemy types, providing challenging and…
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+4.0
MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
The game features complex mechanics, high skill ceilings, and competitive online play with ranked modes, rewarding…
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+4.0
Satisfactory
The game challenges players to master complex factory building, optimization, and resource management.
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+4.0
I Am Your Beast
The game challenges players to master levels for S ranks and speedruns, rewarding skillful play and tactical decisions.
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+5.0
Zero Hour
High skill ceiling with realistic gunplay, tactical room clearing, and learning maps; players improve through practice…
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+4.0
Utopia Must Fall
Game requires skillful aiming, prioritization, and strategic upgrade choices to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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