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Autonomy
Being in control of actions and decisions (e.g. freedom to play how you want)
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Play style 05
Players have significant control over strategic decisions, resource allocation, unit movements, and tactical planning, requiring personal freedom and decision-making.
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Cataclismo
Players have high control over building their castles brick by brick and customizing defenses, with freedom to choose…
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+4.0
Populous™: The Beginning
Players directly control the shaman and make strategic decisions, including terrain manipulation and spellcasting…
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+4.0
Golfing Over It with Alva Majo
Players have control over their shots and decisions, but once the ball hits a surface, control is lost until it stops…
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+4.0
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines
Players control a squad of commandos with unique skills and must plan and execute their own strategies, showing high…
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+4.0
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Players have significant control over pizzeria design, pizza customization, and strategic decisions in managing the…
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+4.0
of the Devil
Players have control over investigation and courtroom actions, including strategic betting and evidence presentation…
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+4.0
Wireworks
Players have significant control over building and wiring their own unique defensive systems and can adjust parameters…
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+4.0
There Came an Echo
Players have significant control over issuing commands via voice, allowing personal freedom in directing squad actions…
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+4.0
Bardbarian
Players control the bard's movement and decisions on summoning units and using buffs, allowing freedom in tactics and…
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+4.0
Fight School Simulator
Players manage their dojo with freedom to customize training philosophy, student development, and combat style…
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+4.0
Crisis in the Kremlin
Players have extensive freedom to direct political, economic, and diplomatic decisions shaping the USSR's fate.
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+4.0
Wrestling Revolution 3D
Players have significant control over their wrestler's career, booking matches, negotiating contracts, and customizing…
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+4.0
Prison Simulator
Players have freedom to choose how to act as a guard, including being corrupt or lawful, deciding how to handle…
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+4.0
I'm on Observation Duty 5
Players have control over their observation and reporting decisions, with freedom to choose how to scan cameras and…
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+4.0
Hexguardian
Players have significant control over map building via tile placement and strategic decisions on tower/unit upgrades…
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+4.0
Blacksmith Master
Players have significant control over managing their blacksmith shop, hiring staff, assigning tasks, and customizing…
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+4.0
KallaX
Players have freedom to direct their own actions and roles in cooperative furniture assembly, with asymmetric…
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+4.0
Chocolate Factory Simulator
Players have control over detailed chocolate-making processes, ingredient measurements, and factory management…
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+4.0
Catizens
Players experience limited direct control as cats have their own personalities and often act independently, requiring…
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+4.0
Knights of Honor II: Sovereign
Players have significant freedom to run their kingdom as they choose, including diplomacy, war, espionage, and economic…
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+4.0
Gold Gold Adventure Gold
Players indirectly control heroes by issuing quests and managing the town, with some direct influence via spells and…
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+4.0
Sumerians
Players direct city layout, zone areas, and manage resources but inhabitants autonomously build and work within zones.
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+4.0
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising
Players have significant freedom to control units directly or issue strategic orders; can pilot any vehicle or delegate…
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+4.0
Stranded: Alien Dawn
Players manage survivors with indirect control, setting priorities and tasks but not direct control except in combat.
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