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The game challenges players with complex strategic and tactical decisions, including managing resources, combat, and diplomacy, rewarding skillful play.
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+5.0
Warfare
The game is challenging, requiring skillful micromanagement, strategic planning, and careful resource use. Players…
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+4.0
Anomaly: Warzone Earth
Game requires tactical planning, route optimization, unit management, and timely use of abilities, providing…
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+4.0
The Escapists 2
The game requires skillful planning, problem solving, and overcoming challenges with a significant learning curve and…
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+5.0
Gloomhaven
The game demands high skill and strategic thinking, with complex tactical combat and a steep learning curve.
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+4.0
Banana Drama
Game involves skillful micromanagement, strategic planning, and overcoming tactical challenges.
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+5.0
Hive
The game is a deep abstract strategy requiring skillful planning and tactical thinking, with challenging AI and…
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+4.0
Hex of Steel
Game offers challenging AI, complex tactical and strategic decisions, and rewards skillful play.
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+4.0
Bloons Adventure Time TD
The game offers strategic depth and challenge, especially on harder difficulties, rewarding skillful planning and…
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+4.0
Crusader Kings II
The game requires mastering complex mechanics, strategic planning, and adapting to unpredictable events.
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+5.0
Long Live The Queen
The game requires mastering many skills and strategic planning to survive; failure leads to death and replay.
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+4.0
Solar Settlers
The game challenges players with resource management, strategic planning, and increasing difficulty that requires…
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+4.0
Command & Conquer™ Generals Zero Hour
The game offers challenging AI, skill-based micromanagement, and strategic depth, rewarding effective tactics and…
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+4.0
Ark Nova
The game offers challenging AI and complex strategic decisions requiring skill and planning.
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+4.0
Mad Games Tycoon 2
Game involves overcoming complex management challenges, optimizing game features, and strategic decisions to succeed.
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+4.0
Grimshire
The game requires skillful resource and time management, optimization, and overcoming escalating challenges with…
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+4.0
Pyrene
Game offers deep strategic and tactical challenges with complex synergies and mechanics, rewarding skillful play and…
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+4.0
Enter the Chronosphere
The game challenges players to master complex mechanics, anticipate enemy moves, and optimize builds, rewarding…
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+5.0
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
The game demands strategic thinking, complex planning, and mastery of multiple interlocking systems, rewarding skillful…
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+4.0
Stellaris
The game offers complex strategic challenges, requiring skillful management of resources, diplomacy, warfare, and…
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+4.0
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
The game challenges players with complex strategy, tactical battles, and management of multiple systems, rewarding…
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+4.0
Earthling's Undertaking
The game demands mastering complex systems, strategic combat, and long-term planning, providing strong skill challenges…
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+4.0
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Game offers challenging AI, skill-based unit management, and strategic depth requiring player skill.
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+4.0
X-COM: Apocalypse
The game offers complex tactical challenges, strategic management, and adaptive AI requiring skillful play and…
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+4.0
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition
The game challenges players to master unit creation, resource management, and strategic combat, rewarding skillful play…
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