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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Competence + Growth
A strong dose of competence and growth in the same game.
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+4.0
Havsala: Into the Soul Palace
Puzzles require intellectual challenge, logic, and interpretation of complex clues, providing satisfying skill-based…
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+4.0
HELLCARD
Game involves strategic planning, skillful card play, and overcoming challenging enemies with feedback on performance…
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+4.0
How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country
Game requires strategic thinking, resource management, and timing to succeed; skill trees impact gameplay effectiveness.
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+4.0
Inverted Angel
The game demands skillful reasoning and interpretation of subtle narrative cues, with challenging puzzle-solving and…
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+4.0
Legend Battles
The game demands skillful play with complex AI, tactical decision-making, mastery of specialists, and challenging…
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+4.0
Logic Town
The game offers a range of puzzle difficulties, tests logical deduction skills, and provides feedback on mistakes…
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+4.0
Mega Mosaic
The game requires logical deduction and skillful reasoning to solve a massive, complex puzzle with feedback on errors.
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+4.0
Mosaic of the Strange
The game offers logical deduction puzzles with increasing complexity and multiple difficulty settings that challenge…
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+4.0
Odallus: The Dark Call
The game offers challenging combat and boss fights that require learning patterns and skillful execution, rewarding…
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+4.0
Pale Coins
Combat is challenging and requires skillful timing and strategy; progression through leveling, attribute allocation…
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+4.0
Pray Game
Combat is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful resource and ability management, with a steep learning curve…
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+4.0
Scoot
Game offers challenging trick execution and skill mastery; players report difficulty and learning curve.
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+4.0
ShapeHero Factory
Game challenges players to optimize factory layouts and resource management under time pressure, rewarding skillful…
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+4.0
Space Gladiators
The game is challenging with a high skill ceiling, requiring mastery of combat mechanics, enemy patterns, and strategic…
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+4.0
Star Realms
Game requires skillful deck building, strategic card purchasing, and tactical play to overcome opponents and…
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+4.0
Stella Sora
Combat requires skillful dodging, timing, and strategic team building; players receive feedback through challenging…
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+4.0
The Ninja Saviors: Return of the Warriors
The game demands skillful timing, positioning, and mastery of character moves; difficulty ramps up and rewards player…
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+4.0
Dead by Daylight
High skill ceiling with mind games, mechanical skill, and strategic thinking required; players report learning curves…
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+4.0
ENDLESS Space™ 2
Complex 4X mechanics with strategic depth, tech trees, ship design, and political systems challenge player skill
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+4.0
THE FINALS
High skill ceiling with balanced weapons and mechanics; players report learning curve and skill expression through…
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+4.0
World War Z
The game offers a challenging difficulty curve, skill trees, weapon upgrades, and requires tactical teamwork, providing…
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+4.0
Clash: Artifacts of Chaos
Combat requires skillful timing, combo chaining, and mastery of mechanics; challenging bosses and progression.
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+4.0
Globesweeper
The game challenges players with logic puzzles of varying complexity and sizes, rewarding skillful deduction and…
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+4.0
Grapple
The game features a steep learning curve and requires skillful timing and precision to master swinging and grappling…
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