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Games Like Deus Ex Machina, Game of the Year, 30th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

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Back by popular demand, the legendary video game and first ever interactive movie, starring Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Ian Dury (the Godfather of Punk), and Frankie Howerd (comic genius). Hailed as a breakthrough in the development of video games, Deus Ex Machina won Game Of The Year, and is…

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Back by popular demand, the legendary video game and first ever interactive movie, starring Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who), Ian Dury (the Godfather of Punk), and Frankie Howerd (comic genius). Hailed as a breakthrough in the development of video games, Deus Ex Machina won Game Of The Year, and is currently the subject of movies, books,...

Reviews: Positive — 84% — of 49 reviews
Released: 2016-09-29
Developer: Potassium Frog Limited
Genres: Indie
Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

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    97% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2016
    Dev: Colin Jones & The Potassium FrogPub: Potassium Frog Limited
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    The popular 1990's arcade adventure Slightly Magic has been remastered and restored by the original author/programmer Colin Jones. Combine objects with spells to activate, turn into a bird, a fish or even invisible!

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  2. #2 Rooftop Cop
    96% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
    Dev: Lawra Suits ClarkPub: Independent
    Windows · Mac

    A world of Police that have forgotten what, and why, they are policing. Rooftop Cop is a collection of five endless vignette games and a 7-track album. The games are set on a loose metaphysical timeline in which the Cops slowly lose their way.

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  3. #3 Crash Landing
    96% matchMostly Negative25% of 16 reviews2016
    Dev: Claws of LorekPub: Strategy First
    Windows

    Crash Landing is a simple sci-fi top-down shooter game, that follows in footsteps of games like Alien Breed or Shadowgrounds. With a little more focus on the story. Multiple enemies, different weapons, changing environments and action, all is designed to keep the game fun and interesting.

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  4. #4 Unlimited Escape
    95% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2015
    Dev: Carlo D'Apostoli ProjectsPub: Strategy First
    Windows

    'Unlimited escape' is an action / strategy game with unpredictable dynamics. The protagonist of the game will walk and explore endless mazes procedurally generated and will have a single mission: to save the prisoners scattered in the path leading them to the point of rescue.

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  5. #5 Contract
    94% matchMixed51% of 57 reviews2016
    Dev: S Houben
    Windows

    Contract is a side-scrolling shooter in which you must shoot, hack and massacre your way past armed guards, security systems and other challenges in order to reach your targets. You play as a man, blackmailed into the art of assassination by the kidnappers of his brother.

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  6. #6 Dammerlicht
    94% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2017
    Dev: Royal Tea Time Studio
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Dämmerlicht is a game based around the many worlds theory, where the actions of the player create alternate universes and allow you to experience each potential path the game world could take.

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  7. #7 Mines of Mars
    93% matchMixed61% of 71 reviews2018
    Dev: Wickey WarePub: Crescent Moon Games
    Windows · Mac

    Some suspected that Mars once harbored life. There was a reason that it wasn't ever found.

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  8. #8 Let There Be Life
    92% matchMixed63% of 32 reviews2015
    Dev: Backward pieS
    Windows · Mac

    Let There Be Life is an award-winning relaxing and creative experience that allows you to build trees and play with wildlife...just don't put too much shadow on the plants below!

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  9. #9 Knife Hit Dash
    91% matchMixed47% of 72 reviews2018
    Dev: D1ONE
    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 75.1 hrs≥1hr: 14%

    Knife Hit Dash is an interesting simulation that allows you to sharpen knife throwing skills. Try to become the best in this matter, actively practice in throwing knives, upgrading weapons and setting a personal record.

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  10. #10 The Haunting of Billy
    91% matchMixed47% of 43 reviews2018
    Dev: Targon Studios
    Windows

    It’s Halloween night and your girlfriend is missing! Play as Billy, fighting through the procedurally generated halls of an old, haunted mansion. Fight zombies, ghosts, goblins, and more with over 1 million costume combinations and more than 60 unique weapons to use!

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  11. #11 Vintage Hero
    90% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2017
    Dev: Frog the Door Games
    Windows

    Action, platforming, and everything you love about the 8-bit gaming era brought back to the modern world with a classic chip tune soundtrack and a gripping story. It's the year 198X... you know what to do.

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  12. #12 Bunny - The Horror Game
    89% matchMostly Negative31% of 48 reviews2018
    Dev: BunnyPub: Cheesecake
    Windows

    There is a terrible bunny in the house.

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  13. #13 Brick Breaker Ultimate
    89% matchMixed39% of 56 reviews2017
    Dev: RewindApp
    Windows
    Median: 12 minMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 38%

    Brick Breaker Ultimate is a "Brick Breaker" style game where you aim to make the best score. To do this, simply break the bricks with your balls that you can recover during your game.

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  14. #14 Flippt
    88% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2017
    Dev: Luetso, LLC
    Windows

    Flippt is a highly addictive, casual puzzle game. A sequence of colored gems are briefly shown, then you have to repeat that pattern on the tiles below. Simple, right? Not so fast! It's easy to learn, yet difficult to master.

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  15. #15 Little Miss Lonely
    86% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2017
    Dev: Club Cotton Games
    Windows

    Little Miss Lonely is a game about childhood, fear and the relationships. You play as nine year old Robin in this short, narrative driven side-scrolling game.

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  16. #16 Back To Life 3
    87% matchMixed40% of 10 reviews2014
    Dev: Carlo D'Apostoli ProjectsPub: Strategy First
    Windows

    The journey of the small beneficial cell reaches its final chapter!

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  17. #17 A Week of Circus Terror
    86% matchMixed56% of 34 reviews2016
    Dev: Richard Haraším
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 86.0 hrs≥1hr: 36%

    A hand-drawn, point & click indie horror game about the haunted house and his owner. During the day, you have to search for some informations, but when the night comes, you have to understand, why are the possessed toys trying to kill you. You have to find a way to go through them and save your life!

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  18. #18 Half Past Disaster
    84% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2017
    Dev: Golden Age Creative
    Windows · Mac

    Dive into the beautiful cartoon world of Half Past Disaster with either Greg or Meg and platform your way through time, evil creatures, epic bosses and the legal department to save time. Prepare for a challenge, but remember, time only moves when you do.

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  19. #19 Necro Immortallis
    82% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2018
    Dev: Vidas Salavejus
    Windows

    Indie horror game about a cruel escape from the artificial death lurking in the forest during World War 2.

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  20. #20 Brain Crush
    85% matchNo user reviews2017
    Dev: Chano H. Hansen
    Windows

    Brain Crush is a mind, “strategy”, and fast thinking game in a world of 2D. Basically, the biggest goal of the game is to reach a blue portal looking a lot like the main character. The game might improve your real life reflexes and logic thinking as well. Jo tak!

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  21. #21 Don't Look Back
    83% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2017
    Dev: catbull
    Windows

    Don't Look Back is a VR Horror, Puzzle solving game.

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  22. #22 Back To Life 2
    84% matchMostly Negative36% of 11 reviews2014
    Dev: Carlo D'Apostoli ProjectsPub: Strategy First
    Windows

    The adventure of the little beneficial cell continues!

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  23. #23 Skinny
    81% matchMixed57% of 98 reviews2019
    Dev: lol
    Windows

    Skinny is a weak horror game.

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    82% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
    Dev: Xivek's Toybox
    Windows

    Buffy Stole your Sandwich is an arcade rage game with non-physics based barrels. If you die, you are sent all the way back to level one.

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  25. #25 Volotic
    81% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2018
    Dev: Scott Garner
    Windows

    Volotic is an experimental nonlinear sequencer by artist Scott Garner. What does that even mean? It means a fun way to create songs for everyone, with no musical experience required. In Volotic, you compose a song by arranging a selection of "towers" on a grid.

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  26. #26 Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest: Episode 1
    79% matchVery Positive80% of 589 reviews2018
    Dev: Pavel KostinPub: HeroCraft PC
    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 23.4 hrs≥1hr: 31%

    What do you do if you are the only one left aboard a spaceship? Your team has embarked on a mysterious expedition a few years ago, the ship’s machinery has started acting up and it seems there are ghosts wandering about. Luckily, the black hole above you doesn’t pose any problems…yet.

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  27. #27 this was for you.
    77% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2019
    Dev: Watercress
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    After the crash, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Even now, I haven’t found my way forward. I keep going back to that place. These memories are all that's left. this was for you. is an interactive visual novel, originally created for NaNoRenO2019.

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    78% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
    Dev: Mask
    Windows

    A hard puzzle game.

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  29. #29 DEUS EX MACHINA 2
    79% matchMixed57% of 112 reviews2015
    Dev: Automata Source
    Windows · Mac

    The legendary video game is reborn, Deus Ex Machina 2 is a darkly comic cradle-to-grave roller-coaster of your entire life. A surreal journey from before your birth, through the temptations and dangers of your life, and beyond your own death.

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  30. #30 8-in-1 IQ Scale Bundle
    77% matchMostly Positive74% of 107 reviews2018
    Dev: ALEKSANDER CHEPAIKIN
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 51%

    We transform science into delightful gamesFor decades, researchers have created tasks that measure cognitive abilities. We’ve adapted some of these tasks and made some of our own, creating cognitive games. It makes you smarter!

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  31. #31 Triblaster
    80% matchMostly Negative32% of 34 reviews2014
    Dev: oeFun, Inc.
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Pew pew pew RETRO STYLE! Shoot enemies, survive, gain lives and achieve the highest scores possible all in an old school vector style game.

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  32. #32 Frogvale
    67% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pablo Mendizábal
    Windows

    The same day that Marco was fired, he found out that he'll be a father. The only job he can get for the time being is as a bus driver. Manage his passengers, money and relationships to ensure his family's future.

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  33. #33 A Game For You, Josh
    75% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2019
    Dev: Snotwurm
    Windows · Mac

    this game is for josh

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  34. #34 Crystal Catacombs
    78% matchMixed44% of 88 reviews2015
    Dev: Levels or LivesPub: Crescent Moon Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 12 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 28%

    Crystal Catacombs is a challenging, retro inspired “Megavanian” love letter that utilizes Rogue-like procedurally generated levels/enemies/items with a heavy emphasis on classic 2D platforming.

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  35. #35 The General Retreats
    76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: Incandescent Workshop LLC
    Windows

    The General Retreats is a puzzle game. Steer your vehicle through a dangerous battlefield, avoiding bombs, artillery, and enemy tanks. Every attempt plays out exactly the same way, so you can learn the fastest safe path to the goal. The game has ten levels and five unique vehicles to drive.

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  36. #36 Save Them
    76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: Black Void Media
    Windows

    A Minimalist horror-themed Platformer. Guide your way through increasingly twisted landscapes as the mysterious narrative unfolds. Not everything is as it seems - your journey to Save Them begins here.

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  37. #37 Miner Mike
    64% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: RedRoket Games
    Windows

    Miner Mike is a 2D mining game, where Mike has to gather enough resources to buy a rocket. With that rocket, Mike can finally figure out what is really going on up on the Moon.

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  38. #38 Ultra Pig
    74% matchMixed56% of 27 reviews2018
    Dev: LillyWelland inc.Pub: Bitlock Studio
    Windows

    This is a fun and mobile pixel pig platformer. The task of the pig is picking up coins at levels, passing extermination of biting dogs and trying not to fall from the ledge down.

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  39. #39 TrivaTune
    74% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2019
    Dev: Muttley1968Pub: Dragon Tech Soloutions
    Windows

    TrivaTune is a music Trivia game where users compete in a multiplayer world to prove they are the music king, you will be asked questions with multiple choice options and possibly even get an audio question where a track is played to you and you have to guess who the artist is or what the title or album are and maybe even the release year

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  40. #40 Super Goribei
    75% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2018
    Dev: CPGeneric
    Windows

    Super Goribei is a retro style platformer with small comic like story. Super Goribei is what could be called a pixelated animated mess but with lots of care to the mess all made by the dev. and is right for your faces with this mario clone that now has 46 levels and 2 boss battles for the good of pixel man kind and more to come.

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  41. #41 Dimetrosaur
    72% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2018
    Dev: Grade 9 Games
    Windows

    Sneak around dinosaurs and enemy soldiers in a single player story. Explore the island, find the hidden laboratory, rescue the Doctor and avoid becoming lunch in Dimetrosaur. Similar to retro games.

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  42. #42 City Escaper
    73% matchMostly Negative27% of 37 reviews2018
    Dev: PatatEj
    Windows
    Median: 18 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 40%

    City escaper is a game based on a gangster escaping from police. City Escaper is a 2D game, dodge the obstacles, run away as long as you can and beat your own highscore!

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  43. #43 Burn, Clown, Burn!
    73% matchMixed63% of 40 reviews2017
    Dev: Gameplay Ltd.Pub: KuKo
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 18 minMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 39%

    Everybody knows that killer clowns dwell in the depths of hell. But what happens when an ordinary clown is thrown into hell by accident? Perform insane stunts and help the clown to avoid the fiery furnace of hell! The crowning achievement of human civilization. Period.

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  44. #44 Let's Go There And Wander Nowhere
    72% matchMixed57% of 51 reviews2018
    Dev: Polychroma Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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  45. #45 Oika
    61% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Omniscopic
    Windows

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    71% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2018
    Dev: Matchup-GamedesignPub: Tobias Gaertner
    Windows

    A badass, adrenaline pumping twinstick-shooter!

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  47. #47 Town
    73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
    Dev: 牛学者
    Windows

    Tianmin town because of what has changed, Tianmin town villagers one after another death behind what hidden secret. The protagonist because the country's reform into the town of Heaven, what will happen?

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  48. #48 Brain Booster
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 41 reviews2016
    Dev: AbsQual Studio
    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Are you ready to pump up your brains? Then Brain Booster is for you! Unique intellectual tasks, several levels of difficulty will force your brains move. You will not just choose correct answers, you should create them by yourself! It seems challenging? Just try it!

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  49. #49 Initiation
    71% matchMixed63% of 19 reviews2018
    Dev: Alexandre RousseauPub: Share Dreams Family
    Windows

    Lost for far too long, he’s drowning in his loneliness looking for a lean comfort by remaining close to the same rock. His feelings elude leaving him in oppressive despair. How to find the spark to lit the darkness? In which form will it come to you?

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  50. #50 Trials of the Gauntlet
    70% matchMixed53% of 59 reviews2018
    Dev: Patrick O'ConnorPub: Broken Dinosaur Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 24 minMean: 2.3 hrs≥1hr: 29%

    In Trials of the Gauntlet, You wake up in the courtyard of a Steampunk mansion, your arm replaced with an electric grappling hook. You use your new arm to solve puzzles, traverse the mansion and fight your way to the top of the clock tower where you confront the mad scientist who did this to you.

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  51. #51 Blinky - Rise to the Top
    58% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

    Speedrunning 3D Platforming game, learn to traverse short yet challenging levels, then try climbing up the Leaderboard!

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  52. #52 Puzzle Blocks
    70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
    Dev: Lemon Jam Studio
    Windows

    Puzzle Blocks is a creative puzzle game with beautiful minimalistic presentation.

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  53. #53 PICNIC
    69% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2018
    Dev: A.D. Klumpp
    Linux

    PICNIC is a surreal digital labyrinth - an anti-game - a nightmare (including very loud noises, falling off the map, nightmarish slow walking speed) - an essay about the surrealist Raymond Roussel - an avant-garde composition - a text labyrinth - a noise labyrinth (depending on the game play).

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    70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2016
    Dev: Rovio Sweden ABPub: War Child Gaming
    Windows

    Splash Bash is a hectic local multiplayer brawler, where up to 4 players tries to bash each other into the water using physics based gameplay!

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  55. #55 Generic Jumper
    68% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
    Dev: Sasha C. Gervais-TourangeauPub: Asphe Games
    Windows

    Jump through a quiet land and learn of it's past. What really happens when a chosen one saves the world? Experience challenges that emerge from simple blocks; Discover new uses for the ubiquitous crate; and Platform your way to the end of a story.

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  56. #56 Pound of Flesh
    56% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
    Dev: Tonye Amienyo
    Windows

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    55% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dual Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    COLOR invites you to tackle the physics of light by using additive color theory to solve over 100 solo and co-op puzzles, each designed to challenge you with deep, intertwining puzzle mechanics and skill-based gameplay, all presented in a sleek, minimalistic art style.

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    66% matchMostly Positive79% of 38 reviews2018
    Dev: tamationgames
    Windows

    The official third installment in the You Have 10 Seconds series! Dodge spikes, lasers and solve puzzles to make it to the exit before time runs out! Over 300 new levels, brand new gameplay mechanics and more!

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    65% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2019
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