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+4.0
Hargrave
The game offers challenging platforming and boss fights requiring skill and precision, with feedback through…
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+4.0
Hell Maiden
Game offers challenging bullet hell gameplay with boss fights requiring skillful dodging and strategic build choices.
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+4.0
Iron Blight
The game challenges players with realistic weapon mechanics, resource scarcity, manual reloading, and strategic combat…
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+4.0
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Game offers skill-based challenges, time trials, trick mastery, and nuanced controls rewarding player improvement and…
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+4.0
Savant - Ascent REMIX
Game is challenging with a high skill ceiling, requiring learning enemy patterns, mastering dodging, and precise timing…
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+4.0
Street Legal Racing: Redline v2.3.1
The game challenges players with complex mechanical tuning and racing skill, requiring learning and mastery to progress.
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+4.0
Swarm
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skill mastery and pattern memorization to succeed.
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+4.0
Touhou Kinjoukyou ~ Fossilized Wonders.
The game is challenging with brutal bullet patterns and difficulty spikes, rewarding skillful play and mastery of…
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+4.0
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered
The game challenges player skill with varied mission types, difficulty levels, and precise gunplay requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Hellbrella
The game demands skillful movement, pattern recognition, and mastery of unique umbrella mechanics, with rewarding…
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+4.0
MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
The game requires skillful piloting, heat management, and tactical experimentation with mech builds and combat…
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+4.0
Natural Selection 2
High skill ceiling with steep learning curve; players must master FPS aiming, RTS commanding, and team coordination.
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+4.0
NHL 26
The game features a steep learning curve, especially with the new goaltending system and realistic gameplay mechanics…
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+4.0
Wasteland Bites
Game requires skillful multitasking, quick decision-making, and mastery of enemy mechanics with clear feedback on…
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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
Anomaly Exit
Game challenges players to spot subtle anomalies and develop strategies, with feedback on success and failure…
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+4.0
Beat Da Beat
The game is challenging with multiple difficulty levels and requires skillful dodging and timing, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Buck Up And Drive!
High skill ceiling with complex drifting, fighting game style inputs, and challenging police encounters requiring…
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+4.0
Hellbound: Survival Mode
Gameplay involves skillful aiming, movement (bunny hopping, strafing), and surviving increasingly difficult waves, with…
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+4.0
Hyper Chess
Game involves skillful real-time decision making and strategic planning with a novel chess variant, providing…
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+4.0
Of Guards And Thieves
Skill-based stealth and shooting mechanics with tactical gameplay and class differences require mastery and provide…
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+4.0
Paragnosia
The game challenges players to spot subtle anomalies, requiring observation skills, memory, and quick reactions, with…
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+4.0
Stoneshard: Prologue
The game is challenging with complex mechanics, requiring skillful play and strategic decision-making to overcome…
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+4.0
The Karters 2: Turbo Charged
High skill ceiling with challenging mechanics like boosting, drifting, and reserve management; players report learning…
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