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+4.0
Rome: Total War™ - Alexander
The campaign is challenging with a 100-turn limit and tough AI, requiring skillful tactics and strategic planning.
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+4.0
Ultimate Admiral: Age of Sail
Game offers challenging naval and land battles requiring skillful micromanagement and tactical planning.
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+4.0
Captain Forever Remix
The game is skill-intensive with a steep difficulty curve, requiring mastery of ship building, balance, and combat…
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+4.0
Legioncraft
Game demands strategic thinking, understanding complex rune and unit interactions, and overcoming challenging boss…
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+4.0
Polygoneer
Game tests reflexes, accuracy, and coordination with increasing difficulty and combo scoring.
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+4.0
SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE
The game offers challenging rhythm gameplay, especially on pro difficulty, with skill tests in multitasking and puzzle…
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+4.0
They Always Run
Combat and platforming provide skill challenges and require mastery, though some controls are clunky.
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+4.0
Active DBG: Brave's Rage
The game demands skillful timing, strategic card play, and mastery of real-time mechanics, with a learning curve and…
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+4.0
Convoy
Combat requires tactical positioning, weapon management, and micromanagement; players improve skills over repeated…
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+4.0
Ells Tales: Chairbound
High skill ceiling with challenging physics-based controls and punishing failure conditions requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Eternal Dread 3
Combat requires timing, dodging, stamina management, and strategic skill use; progression and skill mastery are…
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+4.0
Safety First!
Game requires skillful coordination and dexterity to master challenging physics-based puzzles.
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+4.0
SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3
The game requires strategic thinking, learning unit roles, and mastering complex mechanics, providing skill challenges…
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+4.0
The Blackout Club
The game requires skillful stealth, teamwork, and strategic use of gadgets, with a learning curve and challenge…
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+4.0
The Surge
Challenging combat requiring skill, timing, and learning enemy patterns; progression through upgrades and mastery of…
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+4.0
THYSIASTERY
The game requires skillful tactical combat, resource management, and strategic skill development to overcome…
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+4.0
Crisis in the Kremlin: The Cold War
The game demands understanding complex political, economic, and diplomatic systems, with a steep learning curve and…
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+4.0
Fast and Low
Game is challenging with skill-based shooting, tactical decision making, and requires significant brain usage.
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+4.0
Gallipoli
Gunplay is challenging with realistic recoil, suppression effects, and ballistics requiring skill and tactical thinking.
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+4.0
Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition
The game offers challenging bullet hell gameplay requiring good reflexes and skillful dodging, with adaptive difficulty…
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+4.0
Kingpin — Life of Crime
The game is challenging with punishing combat requiring skill, strategy, and mastery of mechanics; players receive…
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+4.0
R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program
Game offers skill-based combat with dodge rolls, aiming mechanics, and build optimization; players feel rewarded by…
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+4.0
The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
The game features deep and complex systems with challenging combat and cultivation mechanics that reward skill and…
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+4.0
The Surge 2
Challenging combat with skill-based directional parrying and boss fights requiring mastery of mechanics.
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