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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
Heroes Wanted
Game challenges players with strategic deck building, elemental synergies, and boss mechanics requiring skill and…
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+4.0
I Am The Hero
The game has a high skill ceiling with complex combos, juggle mechanics, and challenging boss fights requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Ludus Magnatus: Gladiator Manager Simulator
The game challenges players to optimize team composition, training, and tactics to overcome AI opponents; skillful…
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+4.0
Revhead
Game challenges players to diagnose, repair, and optimize cars; racing requires skill and tuning knowledge.
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+4.0
The Ratline
The game challenges players with complex deduction puzzles requiring skillful analysis and logical reasoning.
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+4.0
Alien Shooter 2 Conscription
Game offers challenging combat especially on higher difficulties, requiring skillful weapon and resource management.
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+4.0
Banzai Escape 2: Subterranean
Game features skill-based combat with smart AI, tactical cover mechanics, and increasing difficulty loops that…
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+4.0
Battlerite Royale
High skill ceiling with emphasis on aiming, positioning, and ability usage; players report rewarding skill-based…
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+4.0
Blood of Steel
Game rewards skillful combat, positioning, and strategy with a noticeable learning curve and skill-based outcomes.
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+4.0
Boogeyman
Game requires skillful listening, timing, and resource management to survive increasingly difficult nights.
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+4.0
Chained Wheels
The game challenges players with physics-based obstacles and requires skillful coordination and timing to succeed.
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+4.0
Chasm: The Rift
The game challenges players with difficult combat, requiring tactical weapon use, dismemberment strategies, and…
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+4.0
Chromosome Evil
Game requires skillful resource management, tactical control, and decision-making with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
DCL - The Game
The game offers challenging flight mechanics and skill-based racing with feedback via leaderboards and time trials…
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+4.0
Defend Your Life: TD
Game offers increasing difficulty, strategic tower upgrades, and hero leveling requiring skillful play and adaptation.
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+4.0
Defunct
High skill ceiling with challenging momentum-based controls and precision required for speedrunning and collectibles.
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+4.0
Evospace
The game involves mastering complex production chains, energy management, and factory optimization, providing a strong…
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+4.0
Fallen Tear: The Ascension
Combat requires timing, skillful dodging, counterattacks, and build adaptation; bosses provide challenging tests of…
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+4.0
Fellowship
High skill ceiling with challenging dungeon mechanics, boss fights, and progression through timed runs.
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+4.0
Five Nations
The game offers challenging AI that adapts and requires skillful micro and macro management, with a steep learning…
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+4.0
Help Will Come Tomorrow
The game challenges players with complex resource management, survival mechanics, and strategic planning, rewarding…
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+4.0
IGNOBLE
The game provides satisfying progression and skill upgrades, rewarding player effectiveness and mastery over runs.
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+4.0
Ironsight
Game offers skill-based gunplay with recoil mastery, tactical movement, and challenging combat against varied opponents.
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+4.0
Project Starship
The game is challenging with precise controls and requires skillful dodging and mastery of power-ups; players report a…
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