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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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+4.0
Friday Night Funkin'
The game challenges players with increasingly complex note patterns requiring skillful timing and hand-eye…
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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
Jeopardy!
Players engage in challenging trivia questions requiring knowledge and quick recall, with feedback on correctness.
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+4.0
Linelight
Puzzles progressively increase in difficulty, requiring skillful timing, planning, and problem solving.
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+4.0
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
The game offers a wide variety of challenging puzzles that require skillful pattern recognition, logic, and deduction…
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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
东方试闻广纪 ~ Perfect Memento of Touhou Question
The game challenges players with difficult and obscure trivia questions, requiring skill and knowledge to succeed.
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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
Shell Shockers
The game rewards skillful aiming, positioning, and strategic play with a high skill ceiling and feedback on performance.
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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
Slayaway Camp
Puzzles increase in difficulty and complexity, requiring skillful planning and problem solving.
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+4.0
SNØ: Ultimate Freeriding
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, with skill-based controls, combos, and scoring rewarding player improvement.
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+4.0
Space Pirates and Zombies
Combat requires skillful piloting and tactical positioning; progression involves overcoming increasingly difficult…
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+4.0
THE CANON OF BALLS
The game offers challenging physics-based platforming requiring skill mastery and precise control, with feedback…
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+4.0
The Incident at Galley House
The game provides challenging deduction puzzles requiring logical reasoning and skillful information management, with…
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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
vivid/stasis
Game offers a wide difficulty range with skill-based challenges and rewarding progression, appealing to both beginners…
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+4.0
Fate/EXTELLA LINK
Gameplay involves mastering combos, active skills, and strategic use of abilities with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
The game offers challenging mechanics, especially on later nights, requiring skill and mastery.
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+4.0
God of War Ragnarök
The game offers challenging combat requiring skillful timing, parrying, and strategy, especially on higher…
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+4.0
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
The game offers a challenging bullet hell experience requiring skillful dodging and pattern memorization, with…
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+4.0
PICO PARK 2
Game challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles requiring skill, timing, and coordination.
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+4.0
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Challenging gameplay with difficult bullet-hell levels requiring skill and mastery; players receive feedback and can…
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