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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Competence + Growth
A strong dose of competence and growth in the same game.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Dead Estate
The game offers a fair but challenging difficulty curve, requiring skillful play and mastery of mechanics to progress…
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+4.0
Ember Knights
The game offers challenging combat with skill-based dodging and timing, rewarding mastery and progression through…
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+4.0
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
The game adapts difficulty to player skill, challenging typing speed and accuracy, with skill upgrades and…
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+4.0
Idols of Ash
The game has a skill-based grappling mechanic with a learning curve and challenging movement requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Melatonin
Game offers skill challenges with tight timing windows, hard modes, and perfect score goals.
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+4.0
SCP – Containment Breach
The game challenges players to learn SCP behaviors, manage resources, and master mechanics like blinking and stamina to…
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+4.0
Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers.
The game is challenging with complex bullet patterns and requires skill to master; players receive feedback through…
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+4.0
UNDERDOGS
The game offers challenging combat requiring skillful movement and timing, with feedback on hits and damage, and boss…
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+4.0
Pro Evolution Soccer 2015
The game demands skillful play, tactical understanding, and mastery of controls, rewarding effective decision-making…
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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
AVICII Invector
Game offers multiple difficulty levels with challenging rhythm mechanics requiring skill and coordination.
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+4.0
Axelay
The game requires mastering complex enemy patterns, weapon management, and precise maneuvering, providing a rewarding…
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+4.0
BONEWORKS
The game offers challenging physics-based puzzles, combat, and movement that require skill and mastery, with…
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+4.0
Braid
The game features challenging puzzles that require skillful timing, problem solving, and mastery of unique time-based…
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+4.0
Cannon Fodder
The game requires skillful tactical planning, precise control, and mastery of mechanics to overcome challenging levels.
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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
Dishonored 2
The game offers challenging stealth and combat mechanics, requiring skillful use of powers and tactics, with feedback…
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+4.0
Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)
Challenging turn-based combat with strategic depth and environmental interactions requires skill and tactical thinking.
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+4.0
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
Combat system is strategic and challenging, requiring skillful planning and mastery of mechanics; grinding is present…
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+4.0
Omelet You Cook
Game offers a high skill ceiling with strategic ingredient placement, synergy building, and time pressure challenges…
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+4.0
Prey
The game offers challenging combat, skill progression, and problem-solving that reward player mastery and strategic…
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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
V Rising
Challenging boss fights requiring skill and strategy; progression through defeating bosses and upgrading gear.
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