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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Competence + Growth
A strong dose of competence and growth in the same game.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Swords and Sandals Immortals
Combat requires tactical thinking, skill builds, and overcoming challenging opponents with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Trickster VR: Co-op Dungeon Crawler
Combat requires skillful timing, aiming, and strategy with varied enemy types and difficulty progression.
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+4.0
Tricky Doors
Game offers a range of puzzles with varying difficulty, requiring skill and logical thinking; players report feeling…
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+4.0
Wild Growth
The game requires skillful timing, resource management, and strategic upgrades to overcome increasingly difficult…
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+4.0
Xenopurge
Game challenges players with tactical decision-making, quick command input, and adapting to evolving threats.
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+4.0
Zero Division
The game demands strategic thinking, planning, and skillful execution to overcome varied and challenging encounters.
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+4.0
The Age of Decadence
The game demands skillful specialization and mastery of complex mechanics; failure is common without competence.
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+4.0
Chromosome Evil 2
The game requires skillful resource management, tactical combat, and strategic planning with meaningful feedback and…
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+4.0
Grapple Dog
Game offers skill-based platforming with a high skill ceiling, challenging time trials, and rewarding mastery of…
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+4.0
Occlude
The game challenges players to solve puzzles by figuring out hidden win conditions and mastering solitaire variants.
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+4.0
Pro Cycling Manager 2022
The game offers a challenging learning curve, requires strategic thinking, and rewards skillful management and race…
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+4.0
Protolife
The game demands skillful execution, quick thinking, and mastery of complex tower-building patterns, with challenging…
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+4.0
Roots of Yggdrasil
The game offers challenging strategic puzzles, skillful building placement, deck management, and resource optimization…
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+4.0
Shiro Enkai
High skill ceiling with challenging combat, requiring mastery of timing, stances, and mechanics; players improve…
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+4.0
Shufflepuck Cantina Deluxe
The game offers a challenging skill curve with unique opponent special shots and requires learning patterns and precise…
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+4.0
Smack Studio
The game offers a challenging and skillful fighting experience plus a complex character creation tool that rewards…
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+4.0
STATIONflow
The game challenges players with complex logistics and increasing difficulty, requiring skillful planning and…
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+4.0
Strata
Puzzles require skillful planning and problem solving with increasing difficulty and feedback on performance
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+4.0
STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®
Fast-paced, skillful combat with responsive controls and challenging bosses requiring pattern recognition and mastery.
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+4.0
The Legend of Bum-Bo
The game requires skillful planning and strategic thinking to overcome challenging enemies and bosses.
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+4.0
The Talos Principle VR
The game offers challenging puzzles that require logical thinking and skill, with a progression from easy to difficult…
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+4.0
Touge Shakai
High skill ceiling with challenging physics and driving mechanics; players improve through practice and mastering…
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+4.0
Castlevania Anniversary Collection
Games are challenging platformers requiring skill and pattern learning; save states help but do not remove difficulty.
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+4.0
Gladio Mori
The game offers a high skill ceiling with complex physics-based combat and a challenging moveset editor that rewards…
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