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+4.0
Subnautica
The game challenges players with survival mechanics, resource management, and overcoming environmental hazards…
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+4.0
Terraformental
The game rewards skillful planning, optimization, and learning, with feedback through faster actions and progression.
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+4.0
Terraria
The game offers challenging boss fights, skill-based combat, and complex crafting systems that reward mastery and…
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+4.0
The Message from Deep Space
The game offers challenging puzzles across math, physics, chemistry, and linguistics that require skillful deduction…
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+4.0
The Vale: Shadow of the Crown
Combat and navigation rely on skillful listening and timing, with a learning curve and increasing difficulty that…
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+4.0
Tribal Hunter
The game offers challenging platforming and combat with a unique fullness mechanic requiring skillful management and…
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+4.0
Vermillion - VR Painting
The game offers a realistic oil painting simulation with a learning curve, skill development, and feedback through…
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+4.0
Voidigo
High skill ceiling with challenging combat, boss fights, and mechanics like jumping and stomping that reward mastery.
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+4.0
Voidspire Tactics
Combat is challenging and requires tactical thinking; players unlock new skills and classes progressively, with…
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+4.0
Wooden Ocean
Combat is challenging, strategic, and deep with many mechanics and skill trees requiring player mastery.
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+4.0
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
The game features a high skill ceiling with challenging platforming and movement mastery, rewarding player improvement.
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+4.0
Abiotic Factor
Game challenges players with skill-based combat, crafting complexity, and strategic base building.
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+4.0
Age of Empires II (Retired)
Game requires skillful micro-management, strategic planning, and resource management; AI difficulty scales and…
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+4.0
Airships: Conquer the Skies
Game involves skillful ship design, tactical combat, resource management, and strategic conquest requiring learning and…
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+4.0
ANIMAL WELL
The game offers challenging puzzles and platforming that require skill and problem solving, with feedback through…
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+4.0
Beyond Shadowgate
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful thinking and problem solving, with feedback through deaths…
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+4.0
Blade and Sorcery
Combat is skill-based with a high learning curve; players practice and improve weapon handling and magic use.
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+4.0
Brotato
Game requires skillful dodging, strategic item selection, and mastery of character builds with a steep learning curve.
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+4.0
CAPTURED
The game requires skillful observation, memory, and quick reactions to avoid enemies and correctly identify anomalies…
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+4.0
Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal
Game requires strategic planning, resource management, and skillful execution with increasing difficulty and complex…
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+4.0
Cube Chaos
The game challenges players to master complex synergies, combos, and strategic decisions with skillful management of…
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+4.0
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't
The game offers challenging puzzles and strategic decision-making with escalating difficulty and skillful play rewarded.
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+4.0
Deified
The game offers challenging tactical combat requiring skillful planning and adaptation to enemy mechanics and relic…
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+4.0
Demon Lord: Just a Block
The game demands skillful positioning, timing for parry and dodge, and mastery of weapon and ability synergies…
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