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Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines
The game offers skill-based platforming challenges, time trials, and boss fights that require mastery of movement and…
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+4.0
Dice Player One
The game challenges players with complex dice synergies, strategic planning, and adapting to bosses, rewarding skillful…
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+4.0
DeathSprint 66
High skill ceiling with challenging tracks, precise movement, and mastery of abilities required; players report…
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+4.0
Wild Bastards
Gameplay involves tactical planning, skillful FPS combat, and adapting to enemy types, providing challenging and…
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+4.0
MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics
The game features complex mechanics, high skill ceilings, and competitive online play with ranked modes, rewarding…
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+4.0
Satisfactory
The game challenges players to master complex factory building, optimization, and resource management.
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+4.0
I Am Your Beast
The game challenges players to master levels for S ranks and speedruns, rewarding skillful play and tactical decisions.
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+5.0
Zero Hour
High skill ceiling with realistic gunplay, tactical room clearing, and learning maps; players improve through practice…
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+4.0
Utopia Must Fall
Game requires skillful aiming, prioritization, and strategic upgrade choices to survive increasingly difficult waves.
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+4.0
Meddl Dash
The game features challenging high-speed driving requiring precise timing and skillful maneuvers, rewarding mastery and…
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2
The game emphasizes skillful melee and ranged combat, tactical thinking, and teamwork, with a steep learning curve and…
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+4.0
Mirage Feathers
Game offers challenging bullet hell mechanics, skill mastery, and feedback through scoring and upgrades.
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+4.0
Roots of Yggdrasil
The game offers challenging strategic puzzles, skillful building placement, deck management, and resource optimization…
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+5.0
Shogun Showdown
The game is challenging and rewards skillful play, strategic planning, and mastery of mechanics; mistakes are clearly…
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+5.0
Perennial Order
High skill ceiling with challenging one-hit-death bosses requiring pattern recognition and precise timing.
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+4.0
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
The game challenges players to solve mysteries through logical deduction, evidence presentation, and argumentation.
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+4.0
Age of Mythology: Retold
The game offers significant brain usage, strategic depth, and skill-based challenges in both singleplayer and…
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+4.0
Garbanzo Quest
The game offers a well-balanced challenge with skill-based platforming and boss fights that reward mastery.
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+4.0
Star Trucker
Game involves skillful driving, resource management, and system maintenance with feedback and progression.
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+4.0
Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions
Game has a learning curve with different roles having unique mechanics; skillful play and mastery are rewarded; AI…
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+4.0
Robot Rumble 2
Steep learning curve and complex building system challenge player skills; success requires mastering mechanics and…
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+4.0
Sumerian Six
The game challenges players with complex puzzles and strategic planning, rewarding skillful execution and offering…
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+4.0
Ten Bells
The game challenges players to spot subtle and obvious anomalies, testing observation skills and memory, with feedback…
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+5.0
Maxwell's puzzling demon
The game is highly challenging with complex puzzles requiring deep understanding and skill, providing strong feedback…
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