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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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+4.0
Sword Rogue
Challenging gameplay requiring skill, precision, and strategic choices with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
The Darkest Files
The game challenges players to carefully analyze evidence, interrogate witnesses, and prove cases, requiring skillful…
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+4.0
Thronefall
The game offers a challenging experience with a steep learning curve, rewarding skillful play, strategic planning, and…
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+4.0
Timberborn
The game challenges players with complex water and resource management, requiring skillful planning and adaptation to…
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+4.0
Touhou Crisis
Game challenges players with bullet hell patterns and boss fights requiring skill, precision, and learning attack…
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+4.0
東方幕華祭 TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival
The game offers challenging bullet hell patterns and spellcards requiring skillful dodging and mastery, with feedback…
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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
Windowkill
The game offers skill-based bullet hell gameplay with upgrades and boss fights requiring mastery and strategic play.
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+4.0
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The game features complex puzzles and challenging dungeons that require skill and problem-solving, rewarding player…
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+4.0
APE OUT
Game requires skillful timing, quick reflexes, and mastering mechanics like grabbing, throwing, and positioning to…
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+4.0
ASTRAL COURT DX
The game is described as challenging with precise platforming and bullet hell elements requiring skill and pattern…
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+4.0
Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe
The game challenges players with timed combat and puzzle cooking requiring skillful combos and strategic equipment…
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+4.0
Black Ice
The game involves skillful FPS combat, strategic hacking, and character progression with feedback from loot and…
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+4.0
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
The game features satisfying gunplay, skill upgrades, challenging duels, and rewards precision and combo building…
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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
COCOON
Puzzles provide satisfying challenges that ramp up in complexity, rewarding skillful problem solving and logical…
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+4.0
Contradiction: Spot The Liar
Players engage in skillful deduction, spotting contradictions in testimonies and piecing clues together, requiring…
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+4.0
Creaks
Puzzles provide a satisfying challenge with a fair difficulty curve and rewarding problem solving.
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+4.0
Creeper World 4
Game offers challenging RTS and tower defense mechanics with skillful resource management and strategic planning.
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+4.0
DEAD LETTER DEPT.
Typing skill and accuracy are important, with feedback on WPM and accuracy; gameplay challenges increase with…
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+4.0
Doll Explorer Prologue
Challenging puzzle gameplay requiring precise planning and execution to achieve optimal solutions.
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+4.0
Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories
Puzzles are challenging, require logical thinking, and provide satisfying feedback upon solving.
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+4.0
异常 | Exception
The game challenges players with increasingly complex programming puzzles requiring logical thinking and problem…
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Game offers significant brain usage, skill challenges, and some difficult minigames requiring mastery.
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