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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
Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX
The alchemy crafting system and battle mechanics provide skill challenges and require planning and experimentation.
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+4.0
CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut
Engages players in challenging combat, inventory management, and puzzle solving with feedback on performance and…
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+4.0
Kaizen: A Factory Story
Engages players in challenging puzzles requiring skillful optimization and problem solving.
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+4.0
New Star™ GP
The game offers a challenging AI with adaptive difficulty, requiring skillful driving, strategic pit stops, and…
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+4.0
Super Mega Baseball 3
Game offers a challenging skill-based experience with pitching, batting, and fielding mechanics that reward mastery and…
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+4.0
7 Days to End with You
The game challenges players to decipher a new language through puzzles and context clues, requiring skill and problem…
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+4.0
Awesomenauts
Skill-based gameplay with character mastery and strategic item choices; learning curve noted.
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+4.0
BioShock™ Remastered
Gameplay offers skill-based combat, strategic use of plasmids and weapons, and challenging enemy encounters, especially…
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+4.0
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
The game features a deep and complex fighting system with tutorials, challenge modes, and skill-based combo execution…
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+4.0
Bounty of One
Game offers skill-based challenges with unique mechanics like shooting only when stationary and dodging, plus a…
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+4.0
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES
The game offers challenging stealth mechanics and AI requiring skillful play and rewards mastery with ranks and…
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+4.0
OXXO
Puzzles progressively increase in difficulty, requiring skillful spatial reasoning and logical thinking with feedback…
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+4.0
Remnant: From the Ashes
The game offers challenging combat, boss fights requiring skill and strategy, and progression through gear upgrades and…
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+4.0
Rune Factory 4 Special
Game offers skill leveling in many areas, crafting complexity, combat challenges, and progression through dungeons
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+4.0
TerraScape
The game involves strategic planning, puzzle solving, and mastering building combinations to maximize points, providing…
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+4.0
The Classrooms
The game requires skillful navigation, puzzle solving, and learning unique entity behaviors, providing challenging and…
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+4.0
The Evil Within
The game demands skillful resource management, precise aiming, and strategic use of stealth and traps, with challenging…
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+4.0
Voids Vigil
Game offers a high skill ceiling with challenging dodging, resource management, and build optimization; difficulty…
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+4.0
Alchemy Factory
The game offers complex automation challenges, requiring skillful factory design, optimization, and problem solving…
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+4.0
Blue Prince
Game challenges players with complex puzzles and strategic resource management requiring skill and learning.
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+4.0
Doll Impostor
Game challenges players with puzzle-solving, deduction, and memory tasks that increase in difficulty.
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+4.0
Fortix 2
The game features a challenging difficulty curve, especially on higher levels and impossible mode, requiring precise…
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+4.0
Ghost Watchers
Game involves skillful use of tools, identifying ghost types, managing sanity, and completing complex tasks to weaken…
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+4.0
HUMANITY
Puzzles require skillful execution, problem solving, and progressively complex mechanics, rewarding player mastery.
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