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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
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
The game offers challenging mechanics, especially on later nights, requiring skill and mastery.
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+4.0
God of War Ragnarök
The game offers challenging combat requiring skillful timing, parrying, and strategy, especially on higher…
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+4.0
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
The game offers a challenging bullet hell experience requiring skillful dodging and pattern memorization, with…
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+4.0
Max Payne 3
The game offers challenging gunplay, skillful use of bullet time, and tactical cover mechanics requiring player skill.
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+4.0
PICO PARK 2
Game challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles requiring skill, timing, and coordination.
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+4.0
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
The game involves mastering complex rice farming mechanics and skillful combat, with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Salt and Sanctuary
Challenging combat requiring skillful dodging, parrying, and boss pattern learning; progression through leveling and…
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+4.0
STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R
Game offers deep skill systems, crafting, and combat mastery with feedback and challenges, rewarding player…
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+4.0
1982
The game offers challenging gameplay with skill expression, requiring players to learn enemy patterns and strategize…
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+4.0
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Challenging gameplay with difficult bullet-hell levels requiring skill and mastery; players receive feedback and can…
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+4.0
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream
The game offers complex alchemy puzzles, strategic turn-based combat, and progression through skillful crafting and…
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+4.0
Boomerang X
The game challenges players with skill-based aiming, movement mastery, and combo execution.
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+4.0
Contract Rush DX
Gameplay is skill-based with challenging boss fights and tests of mastery; players improve through learning patterns…
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+4.0
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
The game offers complex tactical challenges, skill trees, and requires strategic planning and execution, rewarding…
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+4.0
D&D Lords of Waterdeep
The game challenges players to manage resources, plan strategies, and outmaneuver opponents, with AI providing a decent…
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+4.0
DEMON'S TILT
Game rewards skillful play, learning complex mechanics, and mastering fast-paced pinball action with boss fights and…
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+4.0
Dicevaders
The game offers complex strategic depth, skillful dice and resource management, and meaningful feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Harbinger
Game challenges players with skill-based shooting and movement; missing shots causes health loss, requiring precision…
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+4.0
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
The game offers challenging tactical gameplay requiring skillful squad management, aiming, stealth, and strategy, with…
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+4.0
Hoop Land
Game offers skill-based gameplay with adjustable difficulty, shot timing mechanics, and deep management challenges that…
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+4.0
Levelhead
The game features challenging platforming requiring skill mastery, with a steep learning curve and rewarding…
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+4.0
Mayonnaise Simulator
Gameplay involves skillful dodging, aiming, and shooting with a skill gap and challenge increasing over time.
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+4.0
Overload
The game offers challenging AI, skill-based aiming and navigation in 6DOF environments, with multiple difficulty levels.
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+4.0
pureya
The game features skill-based minigames with scaling difficulty and achievements requiring mastery, providing players…
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