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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
NavalArt
The game involves significant skill in shipbuilding, understanding physics, and combat mechanics; learning curve is…
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+4.0
Neon Chrome
Game rewards skillful play, tactical use of destructible environments, and mastery of weapons and abilities; difficulty…
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+4.0
NIMBY Rails
The game involves complex management of train scheduling, route optimization, and economic balancing, rewarding skill…
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+4.0
Oblivion Override
Combat is skill-based with pattern recognition, dodge timing, and build optimization; boss fights are challenging but…
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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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+4.0
Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves
Game challenges players with strategic planning, skillful trap management, and real-time combat requiring timing and…
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+4.0
Secret Neighbor: Hello Neighbor Multiplayer
The game involves skillful play including deception, tactical movement, and teamwork; players report a learning curve…
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+4.0
Shadow Warrior Classic Redux
Challenging gameplay with difficult enemies and boss fights requiring skill and tactics.
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+4.0
Supraworld
Challenging puzzles requiring skill, timing, and problem solving; players report feeling rewarded and proud when…
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+4.0
Tangy TD
The game features challenging difficulty spikes, a large skill tree, and requires strategic thinking and skillful…
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+4.0
The Bug Butcher
Game requires skillful timing, aiming, and combo management with increasing difficulty and strategic use of upgrades.
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+4.0
The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
Game challenges players with complex physics puzzles and building tasks requiring skill and problem solving.
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+4.0
The Nameless: Slay Dragon
Challenging combat with deep mechanics, skill checks, and resource management requiring strategic thinking and mastery.
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+4.0
The Spike
Game offers skill-based timing and positioning challenges, with rewarding mastery of spiking, serving, and blocking.
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+4.0
The Typing of The Dead: Overkill
Requires skillful typing to progress, with increasing difficulty and feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Titan Attacks!
The game offers increasing difficulty, skill challenges, and feedback through upgrades and leaderboards.
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+4.0
Turok 2: Seeds of Evil
The game is challenging with complex level design, strategic combat, and skillful use of weapons and objectives.
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+4.0
Virgo Versus The Zodiac
Combat requires skillful timing, strategic equipment management, and mastery of complex mechanics with feedback on…
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+4.0
Warzone 2100
The game offers deep RTS gameplay with a large tech tree, challenging missions, and skill-based unit management, though…
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+4.0
Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
Game offers challenging combat, boss fights, and requires skillful use of mechanics like dash jump and weapon upgrades.
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+4.0
CozyTyper
Focus on improving typing accuracy and speed with detailed feedback and progress tracking; challenges encourage skill…
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+4.0
Dead Grid
Game offers a steep learning curve, tactical depth, and skill mastery with meaningful feedback.
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+4.0
Force Reboot
Skill-based fast movement and shooting with challenging enemy encounters and a steep difficulty curve.
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+4.0
Froggy's Battle
Game offers skill-based combat with enemy patterns, timing, and build optimization; hard mode is challenging.
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