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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
Opus Magnum
The game challenges players to solve complex puzzles and optimize solutions, providing feedback and leaderboards.
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+4.0
Leisure Suit Larry 7 - Love for Sail
The game features challenging puzzles requiring skillful problem solving and some outside-the-box thinking, with…
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+4.0
The Message from Deep Space
The game offers challenging puzzles across math, physics, chemistry, and linguistics that require skillful deduction…
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+4.0
Space Quest™ Collection
Challenging puzzles require skill and problem solving; players feel accomplishment overcoming difficult obstacles.
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+4.0
Orbox C
The game offers a steady difficulty curve with increasingly complex puzzles that require skillful planning and logical…
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+4.0
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube
The game offers progressively challenging puzzles requiring skillful thinking and platforming, with feedback through…
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+4.0
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The game features complex puzzles and challenging dungeons that require skill and problem-solving, rewarding player…
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+4.0
The Room
Challenging puzzles require observation, logic, and problem-solving skills with satisfying feedback on success.
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+5.0
Classic Sudoku
Game offers a steep learning curve with advanced techniques and handcrafted puzzles that challenge and improve player…
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+4.0
Last Call BBS
The game features challenging puzzles requiring skill, optimization, and problem solving, with feedback and histograms…
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+5.0
The Black Watchmen
The game requires solving complex puzzles, cryptography, research, and critical thinking with challenging and varied…
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+4.0
HUMANITY
Puzzles require skillful execution, problem solving, and progressively complex mechanics, rewarding player mastery.
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+4.0
BOMBANANA!
The game challenges players to solve complex puzzles under time pressure, requiring skillful communication and…
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+4.0
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy
The game challenges players to solve puzzles, find contradictions, and think critically, providing satisfying feedback…
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+4.0
Quilts and Cats of Calico
Game offers challenging puzzles and strategic depth requiring skill and thoughtful planning.
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+4.0
COCOON
Puzzles provide satisfying challenges that ramp up in complexity, rewarding skillful problem solving and logical…
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+4.0
LYNE
Increasing difficulty and complex puzzles provide skill challenges and feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Braid
The game features challenging puzzles that require skillful timing, problem solving, and mastery of unique time-based…
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+4.0
Flood of Light
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful planning and execution, with feedback via ratings and…
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+4.0
Paper Bride 3 Unresolved Love
The game features challenging and varied puzzles that require skillful thinking and provide feedback, with some puzzles…
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+5.0
TEST TEST TEST
The game strongly emphasizes challenging puzzles and cryptography requiring skill, logical thinking, and problem…
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+4.0
ANIMAL WELL
The game offers challenging puzzles and platforming that require skill and problem solving, with feedback through…
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+4.0
Tricky Doors
Game offers a range of puzzles with varying difficulty, requiring skill and logical thinking; players report feeling…
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+4.0
Escape Goat 2
The game offers challenging puzzles and platforming that require skill and problem solving, with feedback on…
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