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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
Quest for the Golden Candelabra
The game challenges players with tactical combat requiring skillful use of Pathfinder 2e mechanics and provides…
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+4.0
Withering Rooms
The game offers challenging combat and puzzles, rewarding skill development and mastery of mechanics, with meaningful…
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+4.0
Legend of Keepers: Prologue
The game involves strategic planning, skillful monster and trap management, and tactical combat requiring player skill…
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+4.0
Zombie Night Terror
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful timing and strategic planning, with increasing difficulty and…
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+4.0
Eslabong
Game involves strategic team building, skill customization, and tactical decision-making with feedback from combat…
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+4.0
.Forty-Five
The game offers strategic depth, skillful deckbuilding, and tactical combat challenges that require player mastery and…
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+4.0
HyperRogue
The game requires skillful tactical movement and planning several turns ahead to avoid being cornered, with a steep…
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+4.0
MARDEK
Combat involves timing-based reactions and strategic skill mastery, providing satisfying challenges and feedback.
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+4.0
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine
The game offers challenging stealth mechanics and level designs that require skill and planning, with a learning curve…
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+4.0
Pot's On!
The game challenges players to optimize inventory layouts and synergies, rewarding skillful planning and strategic…
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+4.0
Queens Casino
The game offers challenging card battles with unique rules per heroine and a skill system requiring strategic thinking.
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+4.0
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
The game requires skillful chess knowledge, strategic thinking, and mastery of shotgun mechanics to overcome…
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+4.0
Thief II: The Metal Age
The game challenges players with complex stealth mechanics, sound and light management, and large levels requiring…
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
The game requires skillful management of multiple systems under pressure, with unpredictable animatronic behavior and…
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+4.0
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
The game offers complex tactical challenges, skill trees, and requires strategic planning and execution, rewarding…
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+4.0
D&D Lords of Waterdeep
The game challenges players to manage resources, plan strategies, and outmaneuver opponents, with AI providing a decent…
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+4.0
Dicevaders
The game offers complex strategic depth, skillful dice and resource management, and meaningful feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
The game offers challenging tactical gameplay requiring skillful squad management, aiming, stealth, and strategy, with…
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+4.0
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't
The game offers challenging puzzles and strategic decision-making with escalating difficulty and skillful play rewarded.
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+4.0
Die in the Dungeon
The game offers a high skill ceiling with strategic dice placement, combo building, and overcoming challenging enemies…
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+4.0
Dogpile
Game offers strategic depth with deckbuilding, combo creation, and spatial puzzle challenges rewarding skill and…
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+4.0
Lootun
The game offers complex systems requiring skillful min-maxing, build optimization, and tactical planning, with…
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+4.0
Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms
Game involves strategic skill in managing campaigns and real-time battles; players overcome complex challenges.
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+4.0
Pharaoh + Cleopatra
The game offers challenging city management, balancing economy, defense, and monument building with feedback on…
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