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Autonomy
Being in control of actions and decisions (e.g. freedom to play how you want)
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Autonomy + Strategy
A strong dose of autonomy and strategy in the same game.
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Realm Grinder
Players have significant control over faction choice, builds, and strategies, allowing personal playstyle customization.
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+4.0
Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
Players have extensive control over fleet commands, mission editing, and modding, allowing personal strategic decisions…
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+4.0
XCOM® 2
Players have significant control over squad composition, soldier customization, tactical decisions, and strategic base…
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+4.0
Battle Brothers
Players have freedom to manage their mercenary company, choose contracts, recruit and develop characters, and decide…
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+4.0
Battle Realms: Zen Edition
Players have significant control over unit training, army composition, and strategic decisions, with branching…
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+4.0
EMERGENCY 4 Deluxe
Players have significant control over dispatching units, strategic planning, and decision-making in dynamic emergency…
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+4.0
Esports Godfather
Players have significant control over team composition, training, drafting, and in-match card play, allowing freedom in…
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+4.0
FINAL FANTASY XII THE ZODIAC AGE
Players have significant control over character builds via the job system and gambit programming, allowing strategic…
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+4.0
Insurgency: Sandstorm
Players have freedom to customize loadouts, choose classes, and employ various tactics; gameplay rewards personal…
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+4.0
Intruder
Players have freedom to choose tactics, routes, gadgets, and stealth approaches, with open-ended map design and…
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+4.0
Magic Research 2
Players have freedom to choose elements, builds, and strategies; multiple paths and active management encouraged.
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+4.0
NEO Scavenger
Players have freedom to choose skills, playstyles, and approaches to survival and combat, with many emergent options.
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+4.0
Ring of Pain
Players have meaningful choices in movement and item selection, shaping their own strategies and builds.
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+4.0
4D Minesweeper
Players have full control over game settings, board size, dimensions, and modes, allowing self-directed play and…
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+4.0
Bombe
Players create their own logical rules to solve puzzles, directing the solver's actions with high freedom.
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+4.0
House of Necrosis
Players have freedom to choose when to flee, what gear to use, and how to approach combat and resource management, with…
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+4.0
Merge Maestro
Players have significant control over deckbuilding choices, token selection, and strategic decisions each turn…
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+4.0
Voidspire Tactics
Players have freedom to explore a non-linear world, choose party composition, switch classes anytime outside combat…
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+4.0
ABI-DOS
Players have freedom to design their own solutions from scratch with open-ended puzzle solving and optimization.
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+4.0
Aethermancer
Players have freedom to build teams, choose monsters, and adapt strategies each run with many build options and…
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+4.0
Disgaea 2 PC
Players have extensive freedom to choose characters, strategies, and grinding approaches, with many mechanics allowing…
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+4.0
Helen's Mysterious Castle
Players freely choose weapons and strategies in combat, deciding how to approach each fight with a variety of equipment…
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+4.0
Heroes of the Three Kingdoms
Players have significant control over strategic decisions, troop deployment, and battle tactics, with options to manage…
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+4.0
King's Bounty: Crossworlds
Players have freedom to explore multiple islands in any order, choose army composition, and develop hero skills with…
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