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+4.0
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
The game is challenging with complex AI and requires skillful stealth and planning; players receive feedback via a…
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+4.0
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Combat involves skillful chaining of combos, exploiting enemy weaknesses, timing counters, and managing multiple…
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+4.0
Keyword: A Spider's Thread
The game challenges players with logical puzzles, deduction, and hacking-like mechanics requiring skillful observation…
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+4.0
Laysara: Summit Kingdom
Game offers challenging logistics, resource management, and city layout puzzles requiring skill and optimization.
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+4.0
Little Racers STREET
The game offers skill-based racing with challenging AI, vehicle upgrades affecting performance, and difficulty levels…
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+4.0
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
The game features challenging tactical combat, boss fights requiring strategy, and skill upgrades that reward mastery…
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+4.0
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Combat is strategic and challenging with card mechanics and tactical positioning, requiring skill and planning.
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+4.0
Military Incremental Complex
Game involves skillful management of resources, crafting, and strategic prestige choices with feedback on progress and…
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+4.0
Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge
The game features challenging puzzles including sudoku, nonograms, renograms, and logic puzzles that require skill and…
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+4.0
Paper Dolls 2 纸人贰
The game challenges players with difficult puzzles, timing-based combat mechanics, and trial-and-error boss fights…
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+4.0
Partisans 1941
Requires skillful planning, timing, and execution of tactics; challenging AI and mission design.
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+4.0
Rebel Inc: Escalation
The game is challenging, requiring strategic thinking and skillful management of multiple complex systems to succeed.
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+4.0
Rise of Legions
Game is easy to learn but hard to master with a high skill ceiling, requiring strategic thinking, deck building, and…
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+4.0
Shank 2
Challenging combat with skill-based counters and boss fights; difficulty praised but sometimes frustrating.
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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
Star Fox
The game requires skillful timing, aiming, and mastery of maneuvers like barrel rolls and boosts; challenge mode and…
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+4.0
Star Saviors
Game offers challenging bullet hell gameplay with skill-based dodging and progression through upgrades and perks.
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+4.0
Still Life
The game features challenging and logical puzzles that require skill and thought, providing rewarding problem-solving…
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+4.0
Tales of Escape
Puzzles are challenging and require skillful problem solving, with some frustration reported due to obscure clues.
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+4.0
Tetris Blast
The game offers challenging puzzles and strategic depth, requiring skillful planning and execution of chain reactions.
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+4.0
The Eyes of Ara
Challenging puzzles requiring logical thinking and note-taking, with some very difficult puzzles especially in later…
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+4.0
Tiny Thor
The game requires precise platforming skills, mastering hammer throwing, and solving puzzles with increasing difficulty…
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+4.0
Valentino Rossi The Game
Game offers skill-based challenges with realistic physics and AI difficulty settings, rewarding player improvement and…
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+4.0
Vietnam ‘65
The game challenges players with logistics, intelligence gathering, and tactical combat requiring skillful planning and…
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