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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
Police Stories: The Academy
The game requires significant brain usage, tactical planning, and skillful execution with feedback on performance.
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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
Slayaway Camp
Puzzles increase in difficulty and complexity, requiring skillful planning and problem solving.
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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 Incident at Galley House
The game provides challenging deduction puzzles requiring logical reasoning and skillful information management, with…
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+4.0
Traditional Chinese Medicine Simulator
Success depends on understanding complex medical concepts and applying knowledge effectively.
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+4.0
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skill and creativity, with feedback through progression and…
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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
PICO PARK 2
Game challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles requiring skill, timing, and coordination.
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+4.0
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
The game involves mastering complex rice farming mechanics and skillful combat, with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Salt and Sanctuary
Challenging combat requiring skillful dodging, parrying, and boss pattern learning; progression through leveling and…
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+4.0
STAR OCEAN THE SECOND STORY R
Game offers deep skill systems, crafting, and combat mastery with feedback and challenges, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Atelier Sophie 2: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Dream
The game offers complex alchemy puzzles, strategic turn-based combat, and progression through skillful crafting and…
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+4.0
DEMON'S TILT
Game rewards skillful play, learning complex mechanics, and mastering fast-paced pinball action with boss fights and…
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+4.0
Hoop Land
Game offers skill-based gameplay with adjustable difficulty, shot timing mechanics, and deep management challenges that…
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+4.0
Levelhead
The game features challenging platforming requiring skill mastery, with a steep learning curve and rewarding…
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+4.0
Rodland of Pipes
The game requires skillful navigation, puzzle solving, and resource management with a challenging difficulty curve and…
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+4.0
Shigatari
Combat system is deep and skill-based with timing, stance mastery, and strategic decisions; players feel rewarded…
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+4.0
The Bard's Tale Trilogy
Game involves skillful party management, tactical combat, puzzle solving, and progression through challenging dungeons…
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+4.0
Timelie
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful planning, precise timing, and problem solving with clear…
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+4.0
Avorion
Requires skill in ship design, fleet management, combat, and economic strategy with meaningful feedback and progression.
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+4.0
Betrayal At Club Low
The game involves skillful dice manipulation, strategic resource management, and overcoming challenging dice-roll…
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+4.0
Cauldron
The game offers skill-based minigames that evolve and require mastery, plus strategic turn-based combat with meaningful…
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