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The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful problem solving and provide satisfying feedback on progress.
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+4.0
Train Valley
The game offers increasing difficulty with challenging puzzles requiring skillful timing and strategic planning.
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+4.0
SquareCells
The game challenges players with progressively difficult puzzles requiring skillful logical reasoning and problem…
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+4.0
Primordia
The game features challenging, logical puzzles requiring creativity and problem solving, rewarding skill and…
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+5.0
Still There
The game features challenging, technical puzzles requiring skill, logical thinking, and understanding of manuals.
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+4.0
Lumino City
The game features a variety of puzzles that require logic, memory, and problem-solving skills, providing a satisfying…
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+4.0
Kaizen: A Factory Story
Engages players in challenging puzzles requiring skillful optimization and problem solving.
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+4.0
Patrick's Parabox
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful logical thinking and mastery of recursive mechanics, with…
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+4.0
I Expect You To Die 3: Cog in the Machine
Challenging puzzles requiring skill and problem-solving; players receive feedback and feel effective when overcoming…
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+5.0
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Game requires skillful communication, quick thinking, and puzzle solving under time pressure with clear feedback on…
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+5.0
Sokobond
The game requires skillful spatial reasoning and puzzle solving, with increasing difficulty and complex mechanics…
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+4.0
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
The game offers a wide range of puzzles with varying difficulty, requiring skillful logic, math, and pattern…
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+4.0
Toki Tori 2+
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful reasoning and mastery of mechanics, rewarding player…
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+5.0
CaseCracker3
The game demands high skill in logical reasoning, detailed clue analysis, and complex puzzle solving with feedback on…
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+4.0
Homebody
The game features challenging puzzles requiring skill and logical thinking, with feedback and incremental progress…
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+5.0
SpaceChem
The game demands high skill in logic, programming-like puzzle solving, and optimization with clear feedback on…
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+4.0
Desktop Explorer
Puzzles are challenging and require skillful problem solving, rewarding players with a sense of accomplishment.
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+4.0
Fireboy and Watergirl: Online
The game challenges players with progressively complex puzzles requiring skill, timing, and coordination.
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+4.0
Beyond Shadowgate
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful thinking and problem solving, with feedback through deaths…
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+4.0
Pro Office Calculator
Game offers challenging puzzles requiring skill, problem solving, and occasional trial and error, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Supraworld
Challenging puzzles requiring skill, timing, and problem solving; players report feeling rewarded and proud when…
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+4.0
Closure
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful problem solving and precise execution, with rewarding feedback…
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+4.0
ISOLAND3: Dust of the Universe
The game offers challenging and varied puzzles requiring skillful observation and problem-solving, with feedback…
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+4.0
Still Life
The game features challenging and logical puzzles that require skill and thought, providing rewarding problem-solving…
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+4.0
The Crimson Diamond
The game offers logical puzzles and investigative challenges that reward skillful observation and problem solving, with…
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