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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
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
Game has a learning curve with different roles having unique mechanics; skillful play and mastery are rewarded; AI…
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+4.0
Highrise City
The game offers complex challenges in resource management, production chains, and balancing city growth, requiring…
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+4.0
Pharaoh™: A New Era
The game involves complex city-building mechanics, resource management, and strategic planning, requiring skill and…
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+4.0
Pixel Starships
Game requires mastering complex mechanics, AI scripting, and strategic ship and crew management, rewarding skill and…
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+4.0
Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition
Game involves strategic skill in managing match-3 combos, spellcasting, and character progression with meaningful…
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+4.0
Railroad Tycoon 3
Game challenges players with complex economic management, strategic railroad construction, and scenario goals.
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+4.0
Road Scars: Origins
Game is described as challenging with a high difficulty curve, requiring skillful driving and combat to succeed…
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+4.0
Robot Rumble 2
Steep learning curve and complex building system challenge player skills; success requires mastering mechanics and…
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+4.0
Rolled Out!
The game offers challenging levels with a skill ceiling, speedrunning elements, and feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Spectral Scream
The game offers a challenging experience requiring skillful use of items, strategic planning, and learning enemy…
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+4.0
The Initial
Combat requires skillful timing, dodging, and combo execution; bosses demand pattern recognition and precise reactions.
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+4.0
The Iron Oath
Combat is tactical and challenging with skill trees and ability management; players feel effective overcoming strategic…
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+4.0
WASTED
Challenging gameplay with skill-based combat, learning curve, and strategic resource management
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+4.0
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty
Combat requires skillful timing of deflections and counters; boss fights test mastery, though some difficulty spikes…
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+4.0
Air Defender
The game challenges players with complex radar management, threat identification, and tactical decision-making…
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+4.0
Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China
The game rewards skillful stealth and combat, with a significant challenge and scoring system encouraging mastery.
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+4.0
Bridge Constructor
The game challenges players with physics-based puzzles requiring skillful design and iterative testing to succeed.
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+4.0
Car Mechanic Simulator
The game involves skillful diagnosis, repair, and progression through increasingly complex jobs with feedback on…
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+4.0
Cart Racer
The game is challenging with difficult controls and physics, requiring skill and persistence to succeed.
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+4.0
Commander: The Great War
Game requires strategic thinking, resource management, and tactical planning with challenging AI and meaningful…
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+4.0
Cricket 26 - The Official Game of the Ashes
Gameplay is challenging with improved batting difficulty and tactical bowling, requiring skill and providing feedback.
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+4.0
Devil of the Plague
The game challenges players with escalating difficulty, requiring skillful coordination and adaptation to survive…
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+4.0
Dimensionals
Game offers skill-based turn-based combat with strategic decision-making and progression through unlocking and…
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+4.0
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Challenging puzzles and platforming require skill and problem solving; some puzzles noted as very difficult.
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