Find your kind of game
Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
Explore another motivation
Focused on competence
Games where competence stands out from the other motivations.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Competence affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
-
+4.0
Arma 3
High skill ceiling with complex mechanics, realistic ballistics, and challenging gameplay requiring mastery.
-
+4.0
Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator
Players engage in skillful management of ship systems, coordination, and tactical combat requiring learning and mastery.
-
+4.0
Arthurian Legends
Combat requires skillful melee timing, blocking, and resource management; difficulty scales and rewards mastery.
-
+4.0
Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~
Complex alchemy system with deep mechanics and strategic combat requiring skillful preparation and execution.
-
+4.0
Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy
The game offers skill-based crafting and combat systems with meaningful progression and feedback.
-
+4.0
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
The game offers challenging turn-based tactical combat with skill trees and character development requiring strategic…
-
+4.0
Avorion
Requires skill in ship design, fleet management, combat, and economic strategy with meaningful feedback and progression.
-
+4.0
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Combat is tactical and challenging, requiring skillful party management, spell preparation, and strategic thinking.
-
+4.0
Banquet for Fools
The game features challenging combat with a learning curve, requiring skillful party management and tactical…
-
+4.0
Batman™: Arkham Knight
The game features challenging combat, stealth, puzzles, and vehicle control with skill progression and feedback…
-
+4.0
Borderlands 2
Game offers skill challenges with boss fights, character builds, and requires tactical play especially at higher…
-
+4.0
Civilization IV®: Warlords
The game challenges players with complex strategic and tactical decisions, including managing resources, combat, and…
-
+4.0
DARK NIGHT WITH FLOPPA
Game challenges players with increasing AI difficulty and requires skillful navigation and resource management.
-
+4.0
Delivery & Beyond
The game offers challenging mechanics, requiring skillful teamwork, timing, and learning enemy behaviors.
-
+4.0
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Challenging tactical combat requiring strategic use of character abilities and enemy weaknesses.
-
+4.0
DEVOUR
Game offers challenging AI, especially on higher difficulties, requiring skill, timing, and coordination to succeed.
-
+4.0
Dig or Die
Game requires skillful resource management, building with physics constraints, and combat tactics.
-
+4.0
Dishonored 2
The game offers challenging stealth and combat mechanics, requiring skillful use of powers and tactics, with feedback…
-
+4.0
Doomsday Hunters
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful dodging, aiming, and mastery of complex…
-
+4.0
Dream Quest
The game challenges players with complex deck synergy, enemy counters, and strategic resource management, rewarding…
-
+4.0
Dungeon Warfare 2
The game offers challenging levels requiring skillful trap placement and strategy, with feedback through progression…
-
+4.0
Dungeons of Eternity
Combat is challenging and skill-based with physics-driven mechanics; players report satisfying mastery and difficulty…
-
+4.0
Duskers
Game requires skillful command input, strategic planning, and adaptation to unpredictable situations, rewarding mastery…
-
+4.0
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
The game requires strategic thinking, skillful planning, and mastery of complex job and ability systems.
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.