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+4.0
Total War: MEDIEVAL II – Definitive Edition
The game requires skillful management of armies, battles, and diplomacy with meaningful feedback and challenge.
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+4.0
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia
The game offers challenging combat requiring strategic planning, resource management, and mastery of mechanics like…
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+4.0
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
The game offers challenging combat, including a Nightmare difficulty, requiring skill and strategic planning.
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+4.0
Umineko When They Cry - Answer Arcs
The game challenges players with complex logic puzzles and mysteries requiring skillful reasoning and interpretation.
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+4.0
Warhammer® 40,000: Dawn of War® - Dark Crusade
The game requires strategic planning, tactical unit control, and mastery of faction-specific mechanics, with a…
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+4.0
WitchSpring R
Combat requires strategy and skillful use of mechanics; progression involves mastering crafting, training, and battle…
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+4.0
Withering Rooms
The game offers challenging combat and puzzles, rewarding skill development and mastery of mechanics, with meaningful…
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+4.0
Zeus + Poseidon
Game challenges players with complex city management, logistics, resource balancing, and strategic problem solving.
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+4.0
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Challenging gameplay with difficult bullet-hell levels requiring skill and mastery; players receive feedback and can…
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+4.0
Alien Swarm
Game rewards skillful play, coordination, and mastery of different classes and weapons; higher difficulties provide…
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+4.0
Ancient Dungeon
Challenging combat and boss fights requiring skill and timing; players report satisfaction from mastering mechanics.
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+4.0
Anyland
Players engage in complex building, scripting, and animation challenges with feedback and skill growth.
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+4.0
ASTLIBRA Revision
Challenging combat with skill-based boss fights and complex RPG mechanics rewarding mastery and optimization.
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+4.0
Astral Ascent
Combat is skill-based with a high skill ceiling; players learn enemy patterns and improve through repeated runs and…
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+4.0
BALL x PIT
The game offers skill-based aiming, strategic ball fusion and evolution, and requires learning enemy patterns and…
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+4.0
Besiege
The game requires skillful engineering and problem solving to build functional siege machines; trial and error and…
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+4.0
Black Mesa
The game offers challenging combat, puzzles, and boss fights with improved AI and mechanics, requiring skill and…
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+4.0
Blood Typers
The game challenges players with skill-based typing under pressure, requiring mastery of mechanics and providing…
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+4.0
Caravaneer 2
The game features complex economic simulation, tactical turn-based combat, and skill progression requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Caves of Qud
High skill ceiling with complex mechanics, strategic combat, and character builds; players report learning curve and…
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+4.0
Cheese Rolling
Players experience a learning curve mastering timing, physics, and grabbing techniques, with skill progression and…
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+4.0
Circadian Dice
The game offers deep strategic choices and skillful dice management, rewarding effective play and learning over time.
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+4.0
Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
The game features tight, skill-based platforming with a high skill ceiling, rewarding mastery of movement mechanics and…
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+4.0
Darkwood
Requires skillful resource management, combat timing, and strategic barricading; challenging gameplay with meaningful…
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