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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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High competence scores, with story at +0 or below.
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+4.0
Super Auto Pets
Game offers strategic depth and skill mastery with meaningful decisions and feedback on team performance.
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+4.0
Timberman
Game requires skillful timing and speed to avoid branches and beat high scores; players report improving and mastering…
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+4.0
Bing in Wonderland
Gameplay requires skillful combat, timing, and build optimization; difficulty ramps up and players feel tested.
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+4.0
Rusted Warfare - RTS
Game offers skill-based challenges with AI difficulty levels, multiplayer competition, and strategic depth requiring…
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+4.0
The Battle of Polytopia
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, with strategic depth and skillful play rewarded.
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+4.0
7 Days to Die
The game features skill trees, crafting complexity, base building with physics, and challenging zombie hordes that…
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+4.0
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
The game rewards skillful planning, understanding synergies, and optimizing combos, with increasing difficulty levels…
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+4.0
RUNNING TRAIN | 走ル列車！
The game requires skillful driving, precise stopping, and adherence to signals and timetables, with a scoring system…
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+4.0
Unnamed Space Idle
Game involves skillful optimization, strategic decision making, and overcoming exponential growth challenges, with…
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+4.0
Door Kickers: Action Squad
The game offers challenging levels requiring skillful play, strategic planning, and mastery of different classes and…
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+4.0
FrostRunner
The game offers skill-based challenges with time trials, leaderboards, and increasingly difficult levels requiring…
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+4.0
Windowkill
The game offers skill-based bullet hell gameplay with upgrades and boss fights requiring mastery and strategic play.
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+4.0
Minion Masters
Game rewards skillful deck building, timing, and tactical play; players improve by learning counters and mastering…
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+4.0
SimplePlanes
The game requires skill and knowledge in aerodynamics and engineering to build effective flying or driving machines…
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+4.0
Space Engineers
The game features complex engineering challenges, physics-based building, resource management, and survival mechanics…
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+4.0
Upload Labs
Game involves significant problem solving, optimization, and skillful management of complex systems with feedback on…
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+4.0
You Have to Win the Game
The game is challenging with precise platforming, timing, and skillful dodging required; players improve through…
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+4.0
Chronicon
Game offers deep skill trees, complex item crafting, and challenging endgame content requiring skill and strategy.
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+4.0
I wanna be the Creator
The game features challenging platforming requiring skill, precision, and learning from failure, rewarding player…
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+4.0
SNKRX
Game offers skill-based challenges in positioning, build optimization, and resource management with feedback through…
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+4.0
Sudoku Universe / 数独宇宙
The game offers a range of difficulties from easy to hard, including challenging puzzles that require logical thinking…
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+4.0
Clockwork Cleanup
Game requires skillful spatial logic, puzzle solving, and strategic planning to optimize builds and overcome challenges.
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+4.0
Day of Defeat: Source
The game has a steep learning curve, requires skillful aiming and recoil control, and rewards tactical play and…
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+4.0
Mad Games Tycoon 2
Game involves overcoming complex management challenges, optimizing game features, and strategic decisions to succeed.
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