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FOREWARNED
Game involves skillful exploration, puzzle solving, evidence gathering, and tactical survival against unique Mejai.
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+4.0
Ghost of Yotei
Combat is skill-based with a rock-paper-scissors weapon system requiring tactical weapon switching and precise timing…
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+4.0
Grail
The game offers deep strategic complexity, skill expression, and meaningful decision-making in deck construction and…
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+4.0
Grounded
Challenging combat requiring skillful blocking and parrying; progression through crafting and exploration.
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+4.0
Handy Harry's Haunted House Services
Game involves skillful navigation, task completion, and evasion of ghosts with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
hexceed
The game challenges players with logic puzzles that require skill and strategic thinking; players report satisfaction…
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+4.0
Honkai: Star Rail
Combat rewards strategic planning, skillful team composition, and adaptation to enemy weaknesses with clear feedback.
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+4.0
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition
The game features challenging tactical combat requiring strategic planning, positioning, and skillful use of spells and…
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+4.0
Katanaut
Combat requires skillful timing, dodging, parrying, and mastery of stamina management; players improve through learning…
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+4.0
KLETKA
Game challenges players with survival, resource management, combat, and strategic decisions; players receive feedback…
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+4.0
Men of War™
The game is challenging and requires skillful micromanagement, strategic thinking, and mastery of complex mechanics.
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+4.0
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition
The game involves complex D&D 3e mechanics, character builds, tactical combat, and problem solving, providing skill…
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+4.0
NIMBY Rails
The game involves complex management of train scheduling, route optimization, and economic balancing, rewarding skill…
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+4.0
Oaken Tower
Game rewards skillful planning, optimization of item combinations, and strategic decision making with clear feedback…
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+4.0
Obama Maze
The game is challenging with difficult maze navigation, stamina management, and skillful evasion of Obama, requiring…
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+4.0
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Combat requires skillful timed button presses and strategic badge management; boss fights and tactical battles provide…
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+4.0
Persona 3
Combat requires strategic exploitation of enemy weaknesses and persona management; social link progression and stat…
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+4.0
Plasma
The game offers complex programming and engineering challenges that require skill and learning, though lacks structured…
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+4.0
Pray Game
Combat is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful resource and ability management, with a steep learning curve…
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+4.0
PULSAR: Lost Colony
Game requires skillful coordination, managing complex ship systems, and tactical combat, with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando
The game features skill-based combat with weapon upgrades, experience progression, and increasingly challenging enemies…
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+4.0
Retro Gadgets
The game challenges players to learn and apply Lua programming and logic to build functional gadgets, providing skill…
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+4.0
RV There Yet?
Game challenges players with physics puzzles, driving mechanics, and problem solving requiring skill and coordination.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams
The game offers challenging combat, skill mastery, and build optimization with feedback through boss fights and…
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