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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Competence + Strategy
A strong dose of competence and strategy in the same game.
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+4.0
City Life 2008
The game challenges players with complex social dynamics, economic management, and balancing multiple factors…
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+4.0
Monster Slayers
The game offers meaningful skill-based deckbuilding, strategic card play, and progression requiring learning and…
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+4.0
Pixel Gladiator
The game requires skillful shooting, dodging, and strategic planning to survive waves and bosses, with feedback on…
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+4.0
Convoy
Combat requires tactical positioning, weapon management, and micromanagement; players improve skills over repeated…
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+4.0
Eternal Dread 3
Combat requires timing, dodging, stamina management, and strategic skill use; progression and skill mastery are…
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+4.0
Iron Marines
Game offers challenging missions, especially on higher difficulties, requiring skillful micro and strategy.
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+4.0
PGA TOUR 2K23
Game offers challenging swing mechanics, skill trees, and realistic physics rewarding player skill and mastery.
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+4.0
Pizza Express
The game offers a challenging balance of fast-paced pizza making and strategic management, requiring skillful…
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+4.0
The Blackout Club
The game requires skillful stealth, teamwork, and strategic use of gadgets, with a learning curve and challenge…
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+4.0
The Surge
Challenging combat requiring skill, timing, and learning enemy patterns; progression through upgrades and mastery of…
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+4.0
Dungeon Siege II
The game offers skill-based combat, tactical decisions, and character progression with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Fast and Low
Game is challenging with skill-based shooting, tactical decision making, and requires significant brain usage.
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+4.0
Gallipoli
Gunplay is challenging with realistic recoil, suppression effects, and ballistics requiring skill and tactical thinking.
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+4.0
Kingpin — Life of Crime
The game is challenging with punishing combat requiring skill, strategy, and mastery of mechanics; players receive…
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+4.0
Mana Spark
Combat is skill-based with timing and positioning important; players learn enemy patterns and improve through repeated…
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+4.0
R.I.P. - Reincarnation Insurance Program
Game offers skill-based combat with dodge rolls, aiming mechanics, and build optimization; players feel rewarded by…
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+4.0
Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens
The game demands skillful timing, strategic weapon use, and mastery of shield mechanics; deaths are fair and…
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+4.0
The Marvellous Miss Take
Challenging stealth gameplay with skillful timing, use of gadgets, and overcoming randomized guard patterns.
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+4.0
The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
The game features deep and complex systems with challenging combat and cultivation mechanics that reward skill and…
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+4.0
The Surge 2
Challenging combat with skill-based directional parrying and boss fights requiring mastery of mechanics.
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+4.0
The Timeless Child - Prologue
Puzzles are challenging and require skillful communication and logical thinking, with feedback through puzzle…
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+4.0
Ghost Exorcism INC.
The game requires skillful use of tools, understanding ghost behaviors, and strategic exorcism, with a learning curve…
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+4.0
Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
The game challenges players to optimize complex node-based attack algorithms and master dodging hordes, rewarding…
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+4.0
Shadow Fight 2
The game rewards skillful timing, strategy, and mastery of different weapons and combos, especially in boss fights and…
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