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Autonomy
Being in control of actions and decisions (e.g. freedom to play how you want)
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Autonomy + Strategy
A strong dose of autonomy and strategy in the same game.
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+4.0
Total War: EMPIRE – Definitive Edition
Players have significant control over empire building, diplomacy, military tactics, and technology research, allowing…
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+4.0
Battle for Wesnoth
Players have freedom to choose factions, units, strategies, and mod/custom content, allowing personal control over…
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+4.0
BlazBlue Centralfiction
Players choose from a large roster of unique characters each with distinct mechanics and playstyles, allowing personal…
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+4.0
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Players have extensive freedom to customize squads, unit classes, and army composition, enabling self-directed…
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+4.0
Bad North: Jotunn Edition
Players have control over unit deployment, positioning, and strategic decisions on each island, with freedom to adapt…
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+4.0
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Players have freedom to explore a large open world, choose their own party composition, and make meaningful decisions…
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+4.0
Super Auto Pets
Players have freedom to choose pets, build teams, and decide strategies each round with many viable options and pivots.
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+4.0
Cassette Beasts
Players have freedom to explore an open world, customize movesets freely, adjust difficulty, and choose companions and…
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+4.0
Creeper World 4
Players have freedom to build, position, and move towers, choose strategies, and solve puzzles in multiple ways.
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+4.0
Dungeons of Dredmor
Players have extensive freedom to customize characters with 7 skill trees chosen from dozens, enabling unique builds…
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+4.0
Rusted Warfare - RTS
Players have freedom to build bases, choose units, and customize gameplay with mods, enabling personal strategies and…
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+4.0
The Battle of Polytopia
Players freely choose tribes, strategies, map sizes, and game modes with many customization options.
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+4.0
Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers.
Players have freedom to choose cards and customize their runs, creating unique playstyles and strategies.
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+4.0
Pro Evolution Soccer 2015
Players have significant control over tactics, player positioning, and in-match decisions, emphasizing personal skill…
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+4.0
Chronigma
Players have control over their puzzle-solving approach and can experiment with different strategies and timing.
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+4.0
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
Players freely choose two guilds and decide building placement and strategy each run, allowing significant control and…
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+4.0
Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath
Players have freedom to choose factions, sub-factions, units, and strategies, including global conquest mode and…
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+4.0
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
Players have freedom to choose character stories order, customize jobs and party composition, and explore the world…
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+4.0
Omelet You Cook
Players have freedom to choose starting ingredients, difficulty levels, and play styles (slow and precise or fast and…
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+4.0
Spelunky
Players have full control over their actions and decisions in procedurally generated levels with many emergent…
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+4.0
Spelunky 2
Players have significant freedom to choose routes, decide how to interact with shops, enemies, and items, and explore…
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+4.0
The Long Dark
Players have high control over their survival strategies, exploration, and resource management with no linear forced…
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+4.0
Demon Lord: Just a Block
Players have full control over movement and decision-making in a turn-based system where the world moves only when the…
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+4.0
Intravenous 2
Players have freedom to choose stealth or loud approaches, customize weapons, and decide playstyle.
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