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High competence scores, with story at +0 or below.
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+4.0
Planetbase
Requires strategic planning and problem solving to balance resources and survive harsh planetary conditions
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+4.0
Tricky Doors
Game offers a range of puzzles with varying difficulty, requiring skill and logical thinking; players report feeling…
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+4.0
Wild Growth
The game requires skillful timing, resource management, and strategic upgrades to overcome increasingly difficult…
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+4.0
SlipSlop: World's Hardest Platformer Game
Game requires skillful timing and mastery of slippery physics to progress; players report challenge and learning curve.
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+4.0
1 Screen Platformer
The game challenges players with precise platforming, timing, and pattern memorization, rewarding skill mastery and…
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+4.0
Furi Demake - The Chain
The game is challenging with skill-based combat, pattern memorization, and aiming for S-ranks, providing strong…
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+4.0
IRON REBELLION
Game offers skill-based mech control, aiming, and tactical combat with a high skill ceiling and responsive feedback.
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+4.0
Protolife
The game demands skillful execution, quick thinking, and mastery of complex tower-building patterns, with challenging…
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+4.0
Rocket Bot Royale
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, requiring skillful aiming, timing, and strategic use of powerups.
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+4.0
Smack Studio
The game offers a challenging and skillful fighting experience plus a complex character creation tool that rewards…
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+4.0
STATIONflow
The game challenges players with complex logistics and increasing difficulty, requiring skillful planning and…
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+4.0
Strata
Puzzles require skillful planning and problem solving with increasing difficulty and feedback on performance
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+4.0
Subway Surfers
The game has a real skill ceiling with fast-paced reflex challenges and mastery of timing and route memorization.
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+4.0
Touge Shakai
High skill ceiling with challenging physics and driving mechanics; players improve through practice and mastering…
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+4.0
Executive Assault 2
Game offers significant skill and strategy challenges, with complex base building, resource management, and tactical…
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+4.0
Gladio Mori
The game offers a high skill ceiling with complex physics-based combat and a challenging moveset editor that rewards…
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+4.0
Heavy Bullets
The game demands skillful aiming, quick reflexes, and strategic resource management, with clear feedback on performance…
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+4.0
POPULATION: ONE
Game requires skillful aiming, climbing, flying, and strategic play with a significant learning curve and rewarding…
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+4.0
Production Line : Car factory simulation
Game challenges players to optimize production efficiency, manage bottlenecks, and master complex research trees…
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+4.0
Starship EVO
The game challenges players with complex building, logic wiring, and optimization of ship systems, rewarding skill and…
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+4.0
Valgrave: Immortal Plains
High skill ceiling with fluid combat, aiming, movement, and combo mastery emphasized.
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+4.0
AFTERBURN
Game is challenging to master, especially in later missions and endless mode, requiring skillful maneuvers and quick…
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+4.0
BIT.TRIP BEAT
The game is challenging with a high skill ceiling requiring precise timing and pattern memorization to succeed.
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+4.0
Blueprint Tycoon
The game challenges players with complex logistics, optimization, and problem-solving, rewarding skillful management…
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