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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
Mechanic Escape
Game challenges player skill with increasing difficulty, requiring timing, precision, and memorization to succeed.
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+4.0
myPOPGOES
Game features challenging resource management and difficult minigames requiring skill and practice, with feedback on…
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+4.0
No Man's Home
Challenging AI requiring tactical thinking and skillful combat; players receive meaningful feedback.
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+4.0
QV
Puzzles require skillful thinking and some physical timing; difficulty scales well and challenges players progressively.
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+4.0
Skibidi Toilet Hero
The game offers challenging combat, requiring skillful shooting, timing, and strategic use of weapons, with difficulty…
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+4.0
StarCrawlers
Turn-based tactical combat with skill trees and gear upgrades requires strategic thinking and mastery.
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+4.0
STRIKEVOID
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, rewarding skill mastery and pattern recognition, especially in…
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+4.0
Super Hydorah
The game is challenging but fair, rewarding skillful play, pattern memorization, and mastery of weapon combinations.
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+4.0
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition
Combat requires strategic skill, managing aggro, cooldowns, and positioning; players receive feedback and must adapt…
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+4.0
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful spatial reasoning and precise triangle placement.
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+4.0
Void Invaders
The game offers increasing difficulty, challenging bosses, and requires skillful dodging and shooting.
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+4.0
Warlords Battlecry III
The game offers complex mechanics, unique races with distinct units, hero progression, and strategic combat requiring…
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+4.0
Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge
The game challenges players to solve physics-based puzzles requiring skill and experimentation, with feedback from…
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+4.0
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic)
High skill ceiling with complex rules, strategic planning, and risk management; players improve through learning and…
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+4.0
CrossCells
The game challenges players with progressively harder puzzles requiring mental arithmetic and logical reasoning…
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+4.0
Cube Runner
Game challenges reflexes and precision timing with increasing difficulty, especially in later levels, requiring skill…
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+4.0
Dune: Spice Wars
The game demands mastering complex systems, strategic planning, and skillful management, rewarding player competence…
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+4.0
Frederic: Resurrection of Music
Game requires skillful timing and coordination; mastering controls and achieving high scores is challenging.
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+4.0
古剑奇谭(GuJian)
Combat is challenging and requires tactical planning, skillful use of abilities, and strategic resource management…
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+4.0
Hexarchy
Game offers meaningful skill-based decisions, strategic deck management, and tactical combat challenges.
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+4.0
NASCAR Heat 4
Challenging AI and tuning options provide skill tests and feedback, rewarding player improvement.
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+4.0
Not Tonight
The game challenges players to spot discrepancies in IDs and documents under time pressure, requiring skill and…
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+4.0
Phantom Brigade
Combat requires skillful planning and execution, with meaningful feedback and tactical depth, rewarding player mastery.
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+4.0
POLYGON
Game offers skill-based gunplay, tactical team play, and a rewarding progression system with weapon upgrades.
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