Find your kind of game
Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
Explore another motivation
Recent releases
Newer releases, in the order selected for this motivation.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Competence affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
-
+4.0
The Last Flame: Prologue
The game offers deep strategic challenges, requiring skillful team building, positioning, and adapting to enemy types…
-
+4.0
Summoners War
The game involves strategic turn-based combat, rune optimization, and skillful team building with a high learning curve.
-
+4.0
Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
The game demands mastering complex economic, diplomatic, and tactical systems, rewarding skillful management and…
-
+5.0
Shipwrecked 64
The game demands high skill in puzzle solving, observation, and platforming, with complex challenges and rewarding…
-
+4.0
Grapple Tournament
High skill ceiling with complex movement (grappling, double jumps), aiming, and weapon mastery; players report learning…
-
+4.0
Fairytale Fables
High skill ceiling with strategic depth, complex synergies, and regular balance patches; learning curve acknowledged…
-
+5.0
Leap up no Justu: Double
The game is described as challenging, requiring skillful timing and reflexes, with a steep difficulty curve and…
-
+4.0
Few Nights More: Genesis
Game offers challenging tactical combat and strategic base building requiring skillful planning and adaptation, though…
-
+4.0
Garten of Banban 6
Puzzles are challenging and require problem solving; players report brain usage and difficulty, indicating skill…
-
+4.0
The Enjenir: The Engineering Physics Building Simulator
Game challenges players with complex physics puzzles and building tasks requiring skill and problem solving.
-
+4.0
Trinity Fusion
The game offers challenging combat requiring skillful timing, dodging, and strategic use of combos and abilities, with…
-
+5.0
Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Speech
The game challenges players to learn and recall hiragana, vocabulary, and grammar through typing battles and quizzes…
-
+4.0
(the) Gnorp Apologue
The game involves skillful planning, optimization, and overcoming strategic challenges rather than repetitive tasks.
-
+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Game offers significant brain usage, skill challenges, and some difficult minigames requiring mastery.
-
+4.0
Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising
The game offers a low skill floor with accessible inputs but also a high skill ceiling with deep mechanics, rewarding…
-
+5.0
Knight's Path: The Tournament
Combat is challenging, skill-based, and rewards mastery and adaptation to enemy tactics.
-
+4.0
DemonStar
The game requires skillful pattern recognition, precise movement, and mastery of weapon power-ups; difficulty ramps up…
-
+4.0
Against the Storm
Game offers a steep but satisfying learning curve with complex resource management and strategic decision-making.
-
+4.0
THE FINALS
High skill ceiling with balanced weapons and mechanics; players report learning curve and skill expression through…
-
+5.0
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
The game requires mastering complex instruments, multitasking, and tactical planning, providing a challenging…
-
+4.0
The Last Soldier of the Ming Dynasty
Combat requires skillful timing, pattern recognition, and mastery of a unique parry system, rewarding player…
-
+4.0
Blood West
Game rewards skillful stealth, precise aiming, and tactical planning with meaningful progression and feedback.
-
+4.0
Picayune Dreams
Requires skillful dodging in bullet hell bosses, strategic build crafting, and mastery of mechanics.
-
+4.0
Soulash 2
Game involves skill progression, learning mechanics, overcoming challenges, and mastering complex systems like crafting…
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.