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+4.0
Potato Flowers in Full Bloom
Combat is strategic and rewards skillful planning, resource management, and tactical decision-making; players receive…
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+4.0
Ugly
The game offers challenging puzzles and boss fights that require skill, timing, and mastery of mechanics, providing a…
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+4.0
Angeline Era
Combat requires skillful bump-slash mechanics and dodging; bosses and levels provide challenging tests of player…
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+4.0
Atelier Meruru ~The Apprentice of Arland~ DX
The game involves mastering complex alchemy systems, strategic combat, and time/resource management with clear feedback…
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+4.0
弹幕音乐绘 ~风雷幻奏曲~ / Barrage Musical ~A Fantasy of Tempest~
Game offers skill-based bullet dodging challenges with multiple difficulties and a learning curve.
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+4.0
Deep Snake
The game challenges players with increasing difficulty, requiring skillful maneuvering and mastery of unique controls.
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+4.0
Dressmaker
The game involves skillful pattern placement, sewing mechanics with optional assist, and strategic resource management…
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+4.0
Heart's Medicine - Time to Heal
Game challenges players with time management, reflex-based mini-games, and achieving high scores, requiring skill and…
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+4.0
House of Necrosis
The game challenges players with difficult bosses, strategic combat, and resource management, rewarding skillful play…
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+4.0
Hyper Jam
Game is easy to learn but hard to master with skill-based combat, parrying, and strategic perk selection providing a…
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+4.0
Lab Rat
Puzzles provide challenging, skill-testing logic problems with satisfying solutions and feedback.
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+4.0
Merge Maestro
The game challenges players with complex synergies, strategic planning, and skillful resource management, rewarding…
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+4.0
Orbox C
The game offers a steady difficulty curve with increasingly complex puzzles that require skillful planning and logical…
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+4.0
Russian Subway Dogs
The game requires skillful juggling of items, precise timing, and mastery of mechanics to achieve high scores and…
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+4.0
Spirits Abyss
The game features challenging gameplay requiring skillful platforming, combat, and strategic use of items, with a steep…
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+4.0
Stellar Code
The game challenges players with science-based puzzles and reasoning, requiring skillful interpretation of clues and…
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+4.0
TetherGeist
The game provides challenging precision platforming that requires skillful execution and mastery of mechanics, with…
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+4.0
The Doors of Trithius
Skill-based progression with meaningful challenges and tactical combat requiring mastery and strategy.
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+4.0
TR-49
The game challenges players to solve complex puzzles and make logical deductions, rewarding skillful pattern…
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+4.0
Trust Me, I Nailed It
The game challenges players to think strategically and optimize attack and defense sequences, requiring skillful…
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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
Black Ice
The game involves skillful FPS combat, strategic hacking, and character progression with feedback from loot and…
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+4.0
Crop Rotation
The game challenges players to master complex synergies, optimize builds, and overcome increasing difficulty with…
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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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