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+4.0
Painkiller: Black Edition
The game challenges players with fast-paced combat, boss fights requiring strategy, and skillful movement like bunny…
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+4.0
Pavlov
Game requires skillful gunplay, reloading, and tactical thinking; described as easy to learn but hard to master.
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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
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition
The game features challenging and logical puzzles requiring observation, note-taking, and problem-solving skills.
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+4.0
Réussir : Code de la Route - Nouvelle Édition (French Highway Code)
The game challenges players with varied questions and tracks performance, encouraging skill improvement.
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+4.0
Ruff Ghanor
The game offers challenging strategic combat and deck management requiring skill and mastery, with a learning curve…
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+4.0
RUINER
Challenging combat requiring skillful dodging, aiming, and tactical use of abilities; punishing difficulty encourages…
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+4.0
Scrutinized
Game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful multitasking, evidence analysis, and threat…
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+4.0
Space Engineers
The game features complex engineering challenges, physics-based building, resource management, and survival mechanics…
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+4.0
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
The game offers complex resource management, micromanagement of economy and military, and challenging missions that…
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+4.0
SWARMRIDERS
Game challenges players to survive increasingly difficult waves, requiring skillful reflexes and aiming to achieve high…
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+4.0
The Banner Saga
Combat is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful use of unique mechanics and thoughtful decision-making.
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+4.0
The Classrooms
The game requires skillful navigation, puzzle solving, and learning unique entity behaviors, providing challenging and…
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+4.0
The King is Watching
The game offers challenging strategic gameplay requiring skillful multitasking, planning, and adaptation to RNG and…
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+4.0
The PenguinGame 2 -Lies of Penguin-
The game features challenging boss fights requiring skill, pattern recognition, and mastery of mechanics, with…
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+4.0
TOP DOG
Game is challenging with skill-based dogfighting, requiring mastery of controls and strategic upgrades.
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+4.0
Urbek City Builder
Game challenges players with complex resource balancing, building placement puzzles, and progressive unlocks requiring…
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+4.0
Vestaria Saga II: The Sacred Sword of Silvanister
The game provides challenging tactical gameplay with varied unit abilities and difficult maps requiring skillful…
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
Gameplay is skill-based with fast, responsive combat and challenges such as Horde mode and higher difficulties…
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+4.0
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Puzzles are more difficult and complex than the first game, requiring skillful problem solving and logical thinking…
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+4.0
7 Days to End with You
The game challenges players to decipher a new language through puzzles and context clues, requiring skill and problem…
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+4.0
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
Gameplay is challenging with skill-based dogfighting and mission objectives; difficulty ramps and mastery is rewarded.
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+4.0
Alchemy Factory
The game offers complex automation challenges, requiring skillful factory design, optimization, and problem solving…
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+4.0
Aliens: Dark Descent
The game is challenging with tactical combat, stress management, and resource constraints requiring skillful play and…
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