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Popular, well-rated games with a strong competence score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Windowkill
The game offers skill-based bullet hell gameplay with upgrades and boss fights requiring mastery and strategic play.
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+4.0
9 Kings
Game offers skillful strategic deckbuilding and tactical placement with meaningful feedback and challenge scaling.
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+4.0
Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered
The game requires significant skill, strategic thinking, and problem solving to overcome challenges and RNG.
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+4.0
DOOM 64
The game offers challenging combat, intricate level design, and puzzle solving that require skill and mastery.
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+4.0
Legend of Grimrock
The game offers challenging puzzles and tactical combat requiring skill and learning, rewarding player mastery and…
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+4.0
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
High skill ceiling with complex micromanagement, tactical positioning, and detailed unit control requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Minion Masters
Game rewards skillful deck building, timing, and tactical play; players improve by learning counters and mastering…
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+4.0
SimplePlanes
The game requires skill and knowledge in aerodynamics and engineering to build effective flying or driving machines…
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+4.0
Space Engineers
The game features complex engineering challenges, physics-based building, resource management, and survival mechanics…
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+4.0
Upload Labs
Game involves significant problem solving, optimization, and skillful management of complex systems with feedback on…
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+4.0
You Have to Win the Game
The game is challenging with precise platforming, timing, and skillful dodging required; players improve through…
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+4.0
Bang Bang Barrage
The game demands skillful timing, aiming, and recoil management, with challenging enemies and bosses providing feedback…
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+4.0
Chicken Invaders 4
Game offers skill-based bullet hell gameplay with challenging waves and bosses, requiring precision and strategy.
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+4.0
Chronicon
Game offers deep skill trees, complex item crafting, and challenging endgame content requiring skill and strategy.
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+4.0
Creaks
Puzzles provide a satisfying challenge with a fair difficulty curve and rewarding problem solving.
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+4.0
Gloomwood
Game challenges players with stealth mechanics, resource management, and tactical combat requiring skill and planning.
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+4.0
Granny
The game challenges players with puzzle-solving, stealth, and timing requiring skill and strategic thinking.
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+4.0
I wanna be the Creator
The game features challenging platforming requiring skill, precision, and learning from failure, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Moonring
The game offers challenging combat, tactical depth, and skill-based progression; players feel rewarded for mastering…
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+4.0
One Way Heroics
Challenging roguelike gameplay with strategic turn-based combat and skillful resource management.
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+4.0
Ostriv
The game offers a challenging economic and resource management system requiring skillful balancing and strategic…
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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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+4.0
SNKRX
Game offers skill-based challenges in positioning, build optimization, and resource management with feedback through…
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+4.0
Songs of Syx
The game features complex management systems and challenges that reward skillful planning and problem solving.
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