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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 (2011)
Game offers skill-based shooting, tactical gameplay, and challenging veteran difficulty; players report satisfaction…
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+4.0
Cosmic Star Heroine
Combat system is strategic and challenging, especially on higher difficulties, requiring skillful planning and…
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+4.0
Crysis 2 Remastered
The game offers challenging combat, skill upgrades, and requires tactical thinking, especially on higher difficulties.
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+4.0
FPV Freerider
The game challenges players to develop real FPV flying skills with realistic physics and control calibration, providing…
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+4.0
Gone Rogue
Game requires skillful stealth, timing, and strategic use of tools; progression and skill trees reward mastery.
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+4.0
HoloBall
Challenging AI with increasing difficulty levels requiring skillful timing and precision; players report feeling skill…
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+4.0
Holopoint
The game has a learning curve with skillful aiming, dodging, and timing required to progress and achieve high scores.
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+4.0
Immortal Redneck
The game is challenging with skill-based fast-paced FPS combat, requiring mastery of movement and weapon use, and…
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+4.0
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days
Game is challenging with skillful stealth, resource management, and combat requiring player mastery.
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+4.0
Jagged Alliance 3
Challenging tactical combat with smart AI and skill-based mechanics; requires learning and mastery.
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+4.0
Keeper's Toll
The game offers skill-based combat with meaningful boss fights and tactical positioning, rewarding player mastery and…
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+4.0
Knight Club +
High skill ceiling with technical combat, timing, and strategic use of character traits and weapons.
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+4.0
Knightfall: A Daring Journey
The game features a high skill ceiling with satisfying gunplay, horse drifting mechanics, and tactical racing to towns.
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+4.0
Midnight Fight Express
Combat is skill-based with a learning curve; players improve through mastering combos, counters, and weapon use…
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+4.0
Multiplayer Platform Golf
The game challenges players with difficult platforming and golf shots requiring skill, timing, and precision…
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+4.0
NETHER HEROES
Game offers challenging bosses and requires skillful pattern recognition and reaction, with some complaints about…
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+4.0
No Creeps Were Harmed TD
The game offers challenging strategic and tactical gameplay with a steep learning curve and skill-based tower…
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+4.0
Oxygen: First Breath
Game challenges players with resource management, survival mechanics, and weather events requiring skillful planning…
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+4.0
Pawnbarian
The game challenges players with strategic puzzles requiring skillful planning and execution, rewarding mastery and…
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+4.0
Please, Don’t Touch Anything
The game challenges players with puzzles requiring observation, logic, and deduction, rewarding skillful problem…
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+4.0
Pocky & Rocky Reshrined
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful play and pattern memorization to progress and…
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+4.0
Project Hardline
Players report skill-based gunplay, weapon balancing challenges, and tactical map knowledge; some guns require mastery…
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+4.0
Puzzle Agent
Puzzles vary in difficulty from easy to challenging, requiring skill and logical thinking, with feedback via scoring…
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+4.0
Resonance
The game features challenging and logical puzzles that require critical thinking and skillful use of inventory and…
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