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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
Kingdoms Reborn
Game offers complex resource logistics, city management, and strategic challenges with difficulty levels from easy to…
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+4.0
Nova Roma
Game offers layered strategy, resource management, and problem-solving challenges with feedback and progression.
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+4.0
Pillars of Eternity
Combat requires tactical skill, micromanagement, and strategic use of abilities; character builds and skill checks…
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+4.0
Project Silverfish
Game challenges players with lethal combat, tactical AI, and survival mechanics requiring skill and strategic thinking.
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+4.0
Savant - Ascent
Gameplay is challenging and skill-based with a learning curve; players improve through mastering dodging, aiming, and…
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+4.0
Shadow Warrior 2
The game offers a high skill ceiling with fast-paced combat, complex weapon upgrades, elemental resistances, and…
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+4.0
The Banner Saga
Combat is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful use of unique mechanics and thoughtful decision-making.
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+4.0
Thief Gold (1999)
The game challenges players with complex stealth mechanics, sound and light management, and requires skillful…
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+4.0
Tropico 6
Game involves overcoming complex economic and political challenges with a significant learning curve and skill…
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+4.0
ADEN
Gameplay requires skillful dodging, pattern recognition, and timing, especially in challenging boss fights that reward…
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+4.0
Aeruta
Combat requires skillful dodging, parrying, and boss learning; bakery and town upgrades provide measurable progress and…
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+4.0
Alabaster Dawn
Combat is skill-based with parrying, combos, and timing; puzzles require thinking and mastery of mechanics; feedback is…
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+4.0
Back in Service: a Metro Driver
Driving requires skillful braking and timing; players receive feedback via scores and rewards for precise stops.
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+4.0
Cleaning Up The Puzzle Gallery
The game offers skill-based puzzle solving with upgrades that improve effectiveness and challenge modes that test…
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+4.0
Copy Kitty
The game offers challenging boss fights, skill-based combat, and mastery of numerous weapon combos, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Demon Tides
The game offers a high skill ceiling with expressive movement and challenging platforming, rewarding player mastery and…
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+4.0
Escape from Ever After: Onboarding
Combat involves timing-based action commands and strategic planning; puzzles require use of character skills; players…
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+4.0
Fights in Tight Spaces (Prologue)
Game challenges players with strategic planning, positioning, and skillful card use; players report satisfaction from…
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+4.0
Grenouilles 3D
The game offers challenging platforming requiring skillful precision hopping and overcoming difficult jumps.
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+4.0
业火 Hellfire
Challenging combat and puzzles require skill and strategic thinking
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+4.0
Hex of Steel
Game offers challenging AI, complex tactical and strategic decisions, and rewards skillful play.
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+4.0
Kaze and the Wild Masks
The game offers challenging platforming with precise controls, pattern recognition, and skill mastery, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Larcin Lazer
The game challenges players' memory and puzzle-solving skills with increasing difficulty and new mechanics.
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+4.0
Paper Trail
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful spatial reasoning and problem solving, with a balanced…
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