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+4.0
Jagged Alliance 3
Challenging tactical combat with smart AI and skill-based mechanics; requires learning and mastery.
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+4.0
Keeper's Toll
The game offers skill-based combat with meaningful boss fights and tactical positioning, rewarding player mastery and…
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+4.0
Knight Club +
High skill ceiling with technical combat, timing, and strategic use of character traits and weapons.
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+4.0
Knightfall: A Daring Journey
The game features a high skill ceiling with satisfying gunplay, horse drifting mechanics, and tactical racing to towns.
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+4.0
Midnight Fight Express
Combat is skill-based with a learning curve; players improve through mastering combos, counters, and weapon use…
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+4.0
Multiplayer Platform Golf
The game challenges players with difficult platforming and golf shots requiring skill, timing, and precision…
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+4.0
NETHER HEROES
Game offers challenging bosses and requires skillful pattern recognition and reaction, with some complaints about…
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+4.0
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
The game offers challenging strategic and tactical gameplay with a steep learning curve and skill-based tower…
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+4.0
Oxygen: First Breath
Game challenges players with resource management, survival mechanics, and weather events requiring skillful planning…
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+4.0
Pawnbarian
The game challenges players with strategic puzzles requiring skillful planning and execution, rewarding mastery and…
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+4.0
Please, Don’t Touch Anything
The game challenges players with puzzles requiring observation, logic, and deduction, rewarding skillful problem…
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+4.0
Pocky & Rocky Reshrined
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful play and pattern memorization to progress and…
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+4.0
Project Hardline
Players report skill-based gunplay, weapon balancing challenges, and tactical map knowledge; some guns require mastery…
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+4.0
Puzzle Agent
Puzzles vary in difficulty from easy to challenging, requiring skill and logical thinking, with feedback via scoring…
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+4.0
Resonance
The game features challenging and logical puzzles that require critical thinking and skillful use of inventory and…
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+4.0
Rising Hell
The game demands skillful platforming, fast reflexes, and mastery of enemy patterns and boss fights.
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+4.0
Sanctum
The game is challenging with strategic planning and skill-based shooting; players must master tower placement, weapon…
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+4.0
Scythe: Digital Edition
High skill ceiling with strategic planning, managing resources, and executing combos; AI difficulty levels provide…
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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
Shadows of Adam
Combat requires strategic use of AP and abilities, puzzles are challenging but intuitive, and boss fights demand…
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+4.0
ShapeHero Factory
Game challenges players to optimize factory layouts and resource management under time pressure, rewarding skillful…
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+4.0
Skewer Squad
The game features escalating difficulty, requiring skillful micro-management and build optimization to succeed.
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+4.0
Sputnika Game
The game challenges players to master aiming, timing, and gravitational physics, with skill-based difficulty and…
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+4.0
STARWHAL
The game requires skill mastery of unique controls and offers challenging single-player modes and competitive…
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