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+4.0
Pizza Express
The game offers a challenging balance of fast-paced pizza making and strategic management, requiring skillful…
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+4.0
Project Winter
Requires skillful survival, combat, deception, and strategic communication; learning curve noted.
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+4.0
RACCOIN: Coin Pusher Roguelike
Game offers skillful play through strategic synergies and mastery of combos, with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Re:BF
The game features strategic turn-based combat requiring skillful use of builds, skills, and monster allies, with…
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+4.0
RuneScape ®
The game offers a high skill ceiling with complex boss fights, skill training, and progression systems that reward…
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+4.0
SCP: Labrat
The game is described as difficult with significant brain usage, requiring skill to survive and progress, with feedback…
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+4.0
SimCity™ 4 Deluxe Edition
The game offers complex city management challenges requiring skillful balancing of budgets, services, and growth.
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+4.0
Star Ruler 2
The game requires strategic thinking, mastering complex economic and diplomatic systems, and skillful ship design and…
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+4.0
Street Fighter™ 6
The game offers deep mechanics with a high skill ceiling, extensive tutorials, combo trials, and ranked matchmaking…
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+4.0
The Age of Decadence
The game demands skillful specialization and mastery of complex mechanics; failure is common without competence.
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War
Game challenges players with complex tactical combat, resource management, and strategic positioning; AI is punishing…
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+4.0
Warstone TD
Challenging gameplay with strategic depth, skill trees, and meaningful upgrades; requires skillful planning
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+4.0
World War Z
The game offers a challenging difficulty curve, skill trees, weapon upgrades, and requires tactical teamwork, providing…
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+4.0
Age of Wonders 4
The game offers deep strategic and tactical challenges with meaningful combat mechanics and progression systems…
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+4.0
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic)
High skill ceiling with complex rules, strategic planning, and risk management required to succeed.
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+4.0
BRAVELY DEFAULT II
The game requires skillful use of the Brave/Default battle system and job synergies to overcome challenging bosses…
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+4.0
Brickadia
The game offers a high skill ceiling with complex building, wiring, and physics challenges that provide satisfying…
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+4.0
Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
The game is challenging with a high skill ceiling, requiring tactical thinking, deck synergy mastery, and adaptation to…
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+4.0
Dead Effect 2 VR
The game features RPG progression, weapon upgrades, skill trees, and challenging combat that reward skill and mastery.
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+4.0
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Challenging combat with stamina management, boss fights requiring skill and pattern learning, and progression through…
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+4.0
Drakensang: The River of Time
The game features complex tactical combat, skill progression, and challenging boss fights requiring strategic thinking…
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+4.0
Eco
Requires skill development, specialization, and mastery of complex systems with feedback on performance
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+4.0
ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition
The game offers complex strategic challenges including managing resources, technology trees, diplomacy, and tactical…
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+4.0
Fading Afternoon
Combat is skill-based with nuanced mechanics, counters, and enemy variety; players improve through experimentation and…
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