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The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful problem solving and provide satisfying feedback on progress.
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+5.0
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
The game offers a large number of puzzles with scalable difficulty and extensive quality-of-life features that support…
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+5.0
Lingo 2
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful rule discovery, lateral thinking, and problem solving with…
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+5.0
Wayout
The game strongly challenges players' mental skills with increasingly difficult puzzles and demands mastery of…
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+4.0
The Swapper
The game features challenging puzzles that require logical thinking and skillful execution, especially in later stages.
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+5.0
Reflection of Mine
The game is very challenging, demanding high skill, patience, and problem-solving ability to overcome difficult puzzles.
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+5.0
Catherine: Full Body
The game features challenging, skill-based puzzles with a steep learning curve and multiple difficulty options to test…
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+5.0
Riven (1997)
The game challenges players with complex, multi-layered puzzles requiring observation, note-taking, and logical…
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+5.0
Hexcells Infinite
High skill and logical reasoning required to solve puzzles; difficulty ramps up with challenging handcrafted levels and…
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+5.0
A=B
The game challenges players with complex programming puzzles requiring skill, logical thinking, and optimization.
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+5.0
Code: Terraform
The game challenges players with complex coding puzzles, requiring skillful problem solving, debugging, and…
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+5.0
Poly Bridge 3
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skill, engineering understanding, and trial-and-error to master, with…
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+4.0
Cube Escape Collection
The game offers challenging puzzles that require significant brain usage and problem-solving skills, providing feedback…
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+4.0
Timelie
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful planning, precise timing, and problem solving with clear…
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+5.0
VVVVVV
The game is highly challenging, requiring precise timing and skill to overcome difficult platforming puzzles.
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+4.0
Delete
The game challenges players with increasingly complex puzzles requiring logical deduction and skillful reasoning…
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+5.0
Logic Bombs
The game challenges players with complex logic puzzles requiring skillful deduction and provides clear feedback on…
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+4.0
Death Squared
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skill, coordination, and problem-solving, with increasing difficulty…
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+5.0
The Bridge
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful manipulation of gravity and spatial reasoning, with increasing…
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+5.0
Understand
The game strongly challenges players' logical reasoning and puzzle-solving skills, with complex and varied rulesets…
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+5.0
Tumblestone
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skill, planning, and quick execution, with a steep difficulty curve…
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+5.0
Stephen's Sausage Roll
The game is extremely challenging and requires high skill in spatial reasoning and puzzle solving, with constant…
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+4.0
Meridian 157: Chapter 3
The game features challenging and logical puzzles that require skill and problem-solving, with feedback and progression…
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+5.0
7 Billion Humans
The game provides challenging programming puzzles with optimization goals that require skillful coding and logical…
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+4.0
Nancy Drew®: Ghost of Thornton Hall
The game features challenging puzzles and problem-solving tasks that require skill and logical thinking, providing a…
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