Find your kind of game
Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
Explore another motivation
Play style 06
The game has a steep learning curve, requires skillful management of limited skill uses, strategic planning, and mastery of complex mechanics.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Competence affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
-
+4.0
Airships: Conquer the Skies
Game involves skillful ship design, tactical combat, resource management, and strategic conquest requiring learning and…
-
+4.0
Particle Fleet: Emergence
The game is simple to learn but difficult to master, requiring strategic planning, ship design, and tactical execution…
-
+4.0
Pirate's Gambit
The game offers a steep learning curve with complex card and dice synergies, rewarding skillful play and strategic…
-
+4.0
Shovel Knight Dig
The game requires skillful platforming, quick reactions, and strategic use of items and relics, with a learning curve…
-
+5.0
Silent Hunter®: Wolves of the Pacific U-Boat Missions
The game demands skillful play with a steep learning curve, realistic submarine simulation mechanics, and provides…
-
+4.0
Skull Hotel
Game requires skillful observation, quick reactions, and learning from repeated attempts to succeed.
-
+4.0
Grindstone
Game offers increasing difficulty, strategic puzzle solving, and skillful combo chaining with feedback on performance.
-
+5.0
TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge 2
Steep learning curve with challenging physics and AI; players improve through practice and skill mastery.
-
+4.0
Not For Broadcast: Prologue
The game requires multitasking skills, timing, and managing multiple mechanics simultaneously, providing a challenging…
-
+4.0
KROSMAGA
Game requires strategic thinking, positioning, and deck building skill; players report deep tactical gameplay and…
-
+4.0
There Are No Orcs
Game offers strategic depth, skillful building placement, and commander mastery with feedback through progression and…
-
+4.0
BattleBit Remastered
Gameplay is skill-based with a learning curve, weapon recoil, vehicle control, and tactical coordination requiring…
-
+4.0
Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Game demands skillful aiming, movement, and knowledge of weapon mechanics; described as easy to learn but hard to…
-
+4.0
All About Chopsticks
The game demands skillful fine motor control and mastery of a challenging physics system, rewarding player improvement.
-
+4.0
How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country
Game requires strategic thinking, resource management, and timing to succeed; skill trees impact gameplay effectiveness.
-
+4.0
Battlefield 1942
The game offers skill-based vehicle control, class roles, and strategic objectives that challenge player effectiveness.
-
+4.0
Carrier Command 2
The game requires significant skill to manage multiple systems, micromanage units, and learn complex controls…
-
+4.0
Train Sim World® 4
The game offers a challenging learning curve with realistic train controls, signaling, and scenario planning that…
-
+4.0
Breakout
The game requires skillful paddle control, mastering curve shots, timing, and strategic use of power-ups to overcome…
-
+4.0
Genome Guardian 2
The game offers complex build crafting and strategic choices that reward skillful experimentation and mastery, with…
-
+4.0
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, with skill-based controls, combos, and scoring rewarding player improvement.
-
+4.0
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
Gameplay involves skillful parkour, combat mechanics with weighty feedback, and progression through skill upgrades and…
-
+4.0
Weable
Game demands skillful control, timing, and precision; players report challenge and learning curve.
-
+5.0
Minesweeper Online
The game demands skillful logical deduction, pattern recognition, and fast input techniques; players receive feedback…
Same motivation, different experiences
Your way to play
Explore different sides of competence, grouped by what players enjoy.
Fine-tune your next game
A little more you
Mix in another motivation, or find an experience with less of something else.