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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
Fortnite
The game features a steep skill ceiling especially with building mechanics and aiming, rewarding mastery and skillful…
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+4.0
Opus Magnum
The game challenges players to solve complex puzzles and optimize solutions, providing feedback and leaderboards.
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+4.0
Orcs Must Die!
The game offers increasing difficulty, requires skillful trap placement, aiming, and tactical thinking, with feedback…
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+4.0
Tiny Rogues
The game offers challenging boss fights and requires skillful dodging and aiming, rewarding player mastery.
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+4.0
Escape the Backrooms
Game involves challenging puzzles, significant brain usage, and skillful navigation; players report satisfaction from…
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+4.0
Bronzebeard's Tavern
Players face increasing difficulty, requiring skillful coordination and time management to succeed.
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+4.0
Jacksmith: Weapons and Warriors
The game requires skillful crafting and timing to produce effective weapons and overcome progressively tougher enemies.
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+4.0
Picayune Dreams
Requires skillful dodging in bullet hell bosses, strategic build crafting, and mastery of mechanics.
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+4.0
Sandustry
The game challenges players to optimize complex production chains and solve novel engineering problems with…
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+4.0
Nuclear Option
Game offers skill-based flight mechanics, realistic damage modeling, and tactical combat requiring mastery and…
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+4.0
Spaceflight Simulator
The game offers a challenging physics-based simulation requiring skillful rocket design and piloting to succeed.
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+4.0
Two Point Hospital
Game offers increasing difficulty, strategic challenges, and skill development in hospital management and optimization.
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+4.0
RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
Game involves skillful balancing of finances, coaster design with ride statistics, and park management challenges that…
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Gameplay is challenging with skill-based combat, boss fights, and build optimization requiring player mastery.
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+4.0
World of Goo
The game challenges players with physics-based puzzles requiring skill, planning, and precision, especially for OCD…
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+4.0
Splatoon 2
High skill ceiling with mastering movement, aiming, and weapon mechanics; multiplayer and Salmon Run modes provide…
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+4.0
DEVOUR
Game offers challenging AI, especially on higher difficulties, requiring skill, timing, and coordination to succeed.
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+4.0
MudRunner
Game demands skillful driving, problem solving, and mastery of realistic physics to overcome difficult terrain and…
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+4.0
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Game rewards skillful tracking, shot placement, and understanding of animal behavior; missions provide challenges.
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+4.0
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
The game challenges players to solve mysteries through logical deduction, evidence presentation, and argumentation.
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+4.0
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
The game features challenging and clever puzzles requiring problem-solving skills and logical thinking.
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+4.0
inbento
Puzzles progressively increase in difficulty, requiring skillful spatial reasoning and problem solving with feedback…
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+4.0
Species: Unknown
Players face challenging monsters with unique behaviors requiring skill and strategy; missions involve puzzle solving…
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+4.0
The Pedestrian
Puzzles progressively increase in difficulty, requiring logical thinking and skillful manipulation of game elements.
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