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+4.0
Meddl Dash
The game features challenging high-speed driving requiring precise timing and skillful maneuvers, rewarding mastery and…
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
The game emphasizes skillful melee and ranged combat, tactical thinking, and teamwork, with a steep learning curve and…
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+4.0
Mirage Feathers
Game offers challenging bullet hell mechanics, skill mastery, and feedback through scoring and upgrades.
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+4.0
Roots of Yggdrasil
The game offers challenging strategic puzzles, skillful building placement, deck management, and resource optimization…
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+5.0
Shogun Showdown
The game is challenging and rewards skillful play, strategic planning, and mastery of mechanics; mistakes are clearly…
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+5.0
Perennial Order
High skill ceiling with challenging one-hit-death bosses requiring pattern recognition and precise timing.
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+4.0
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
The game challenges players to solve mysteries through logical deduction, evidence presentation, and argumentation.
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+4.0
Age of Mythology: Retold
The game offers significant brain usage, strategic depth, and skill-based challenges in both singleplayer and…
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+4.0
Garbanzo Quest
The game offers a well-balanced challenge with skill-based platforming and boss fights that reward mastery.
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+4.0
Star Trucker
Game involves skillful driving, resource management, and system maintenance with feedback and progression.
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+4.0
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
Game has a learning curve with different roles having unique mechanics; skillful play and mastery are rewarded; AI…
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+4.0
Robot Rumble 2
Steep learning curve and complex building system challenge player skills; success requires mastering mechanics and…
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+4.0
Sumerian Six
The game challenges players with complex puzzles and strategic planning, rewarding skillful execution and offering…
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+4.0
Ten Bells
The game challenges players to spot subtle and obvious anomalies, testing observation skills and memory, with feedback…
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+5.0
Maxwell's puzzling demon
The game is highly challenging with complex puzzles requiring deep understanding and skill, providing strong feedback…
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+4.0
DEATH IN UNISON
The game requires significant brain usage, multitasking, skillful communication, and overcoming escalating challenges…
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+4.0
Gori: Cuddly Carnage
Combat is skill-based with combo chaining and boss fights testing player mastery; some criticism of simplistic combat…
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+4.0
Akimbot
Combat and platforming require skill and mastery; difficulty ramps up and players receive feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Shadow of the Ninja - Reborn
The game demands skillful platforming, precise timing, and mastery of complex controls, rewarding player improvement…
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+4.0
Spectral Scream
The game offers a challenging experience requiring skillful use of items, strategic planning, and learning enemy…
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+4.0
FAIRY TAIL: DUNGEONS
Game is easy to learn but hard to master with strategic deckbuilding, combos, and tactical decisions in battles and…
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+4.0
Slash/Jump
The game offers a satisfying learning curve with skill-based platforming and precise mechanics.
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+4.0
Tactical Breach Wizards
The game challenges players with tactical puzzles requiring skillful planning and optimization, with feedback through…
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+4.0
Tunnel Escape
Strategic turn-based combat with resource management and skill customization provides a satisfying challenge and skill…
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