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Popular, well-rated games with a strong competence score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Pot's On!
The game challenges players to optimize inventory layouts and synergies, rewarding skillful planning and strategic…
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+4.0
Queens Casino
The game offers challenging card battles with unique rules per heroine and a skill system requiring strategic thinking.
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+4.0
Rayman® Legends
The game offers skill-based platforming with increasing difficulty, time trials, and challenges that test player…
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+4.0
Shell Shockers
The game rewards skillful aiming, positioning, and strategic play with a high skill ceiling and feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
The game requires skillful chess knowledge, strategic thinking, and mastery of shotgun mechanics to overcome…
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+4.0
Slayaway Camp
Puzzles increase in difficulty and complexity, requiring skillful planning and problem solving.
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+4.0
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, with skill-based controls, combos, and scoring rewarding player improvement.
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+4.0
Space Pirates and Zombies
Combat requires skillful piloting and tactical positioning; progression involves overcoming increasingly difficult…
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+4.0
Swarmlake
Game demands skillful movement, swarm management, and score optimization with clear feedback and leaderboards.
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+4.0
THE CANON OF BALLS
The game offers challenging physics-based platforming requiring skill mastery and precise control, with feedback…
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+4.0
The Incident at Galley House
The game provides challenging deduction puzzles requiring logical reasoning and skillful information management, with…
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+4.0
Thief II: The Metal Age
The game challenges players with complex stealth mechanics, sound and light management, and large levels requiring…
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+4.0
Traditional Chinese Medicine Simulator
Success depends on understanding complex medical concepts and applying knowledge effectively.
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+4.0
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skill and creativity, with feedback through progression and…
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+4.0
vivid/stasis
Game offers a wide difficulty range with skill-based challenges and rewarding progression, appealing to both beginners…
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+4.0
Fate/EXTELLA LINK
Gameplay involves mastering combos, active skills, and strategic use of abilities with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
The game requires skillful management of multiple systems under pressure, with unpredictable animatronic behavior and…
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
The game offers challenging mechanics, especially on later nights, requiring skill and mastery.
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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
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
The game offers a challenging bullet hell experience requiring skillful dodging and pattern memorization, with…
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+4.0
Max Payne 3
The game offers challenging gunplay, skillful use of bullet time, and tactical cover mechanics requiring player skill.
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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
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
The game involves mastering complex rice farming mechanics and skillful combat, with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Salt and Sanctuary
Challenging combat requiring skillful dodging, parrying, and boss pattern learning; progression through leveling and…
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