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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Popular, well-rated games with a strong competence score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Air Defender
The game challenges players with complex radar management, threat identification, and tactical decision-making…
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+4.0
Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China
The game rewards skillful stealth and combat, with a significant challenge and scoring system encouraging mastery.
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+4.0
Bridge Constructor
The game challenges players with physics-based puzzles requiring skillful design and iterative testing to succeed.
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+4.0
Car Mechanic Simulator
The game involves skillful diagnosis, repair, and progression through increasingly complex jobs with feedback on…
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+4.0
Cart Racer
The game is challenging with difficult controls and physics, requiring skill and persistence to succeed.
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+4.0
Commander: The Great War
Game requires strategic thinking, resource management, and tactical planning with challenging AI and meaningful…
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+4.0
Cricket 26 - The Official Game of the Ashes
Gameplay is challenging with improved batting difficulty and tactical bowling, requiring skill and providing feedback.
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+4.0
Devil of the Plague
The game challenges players with escalating difficulty, requiring skillful coordination and adaptation to survive…
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+4.0
Dimensionals
Game offers skill-based turn-based combat with strategic decision-making and progression through unlocking and…
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+4.0
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh
Challenging puzzles and platforming require skill and problem solving; some puzzles noted as very difficult.
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+4.0
ECHO
Gameplay challenges players to master stealth, puzzle-solving, and tactical decision-making with feedback from AI…
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+4.0
Final Factory
The game involves overcoming complex challenges like stability, heat management, and logistics, requiring skill and…
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+4.0
Forgotten Mines
High skill ceiling with challenging tactical combat requiring precise positioning and resource management; learning…
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+4.0
IGTAP: an Incremental Game That's Also a Platformer
The game demands skillful platforming and optimization of routes, rewarding mastery and mechanical improvement.
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+4.0
Magic Rune Stone
Game demands skillful play with reactive combat, dodging, and build mastery; bosses require learning attack patterns…
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+4.0
MotoGP™18
Game offers a challenging AI, skill-based bike handling, and tuning mechanics that reward player improvement.
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+4.0
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City
Challenging AI and skill-based racing with a learning curve and importance of timing wingman assists.
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+4.0
Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2
The game features complex movesets, skill-based mechanics like slime meter cancels, and a steep skill curve praised by…
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+4.0
OrbusVR: Reborn
Combat and crafting require skill and practice; players report rewarding mastery of combos, spell drawing, and physical…
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+4.0
Power of Ten
The game requires skillful piloting, resource management, and strategic decision-making; players report a satisfying…
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+4.0
Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood
Game involves skillful dodging, managing upgrades, and overcoming challenging bosses with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Rise of Piracy
The game offers challenging naval and land combat with tactical controls such as cannon angle and powder load…
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+4.0
Seraph
Game challenges players with skill-based acrobatic movement and dodging; difficulty scales with player performance…
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+4.0
Shing!
Combat requires skillful timing of parries, dodges, and directional attacks; mastering controls and enemy patterns is…
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