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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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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Moros Protocol
Game offers challenging combat, boss fights, and skill-based dodging and stamina management with rewarding progression.
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+4.0
Primal Carnage
High skill ceiling with unique class mechanics, aiming, and team coordination required; players report learning curve…
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+4.0
Prime World: Defenders 2
The game requires strategic thinking, adapting to enemy types, and managing tower upgrades, providing skill challenges…
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+4.0
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Challenging combat and boss fights require skill and mastery; players receive feedback and improve over runs.
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+4.0
侠客风云传(Tale of Wuxia)
Requires skillful management of stats, strategic turn-based combat, and mastery of various mini-games
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+4.0
The Treasures of Montezuma 4
Game offers increasing difficulty, skillful chaining, and mastery of totem powers with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Unworthy
The game demands skillful combat mastery, pattern recognition, and boss fight strategy, rewarding player effectiveness.
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
High skill ceiling with challenging combat and progression; players improve through mastering mechanics and builds.
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+4.0
WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers
Combat requires skillful dodging, parrying, and timing; bosses provide challenging tests of player ability.
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+4.0
Arcana Heart 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!
The game has a high skill ceiling with complex mechanics like homing, arcana selection, and advanced combos…
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+4.0
Emily Wants to Play Too
The game demands mastering complex enemy behaviors and survival mechanics, rewarding skillful observation and reaction…
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+4.0
Fraymakers
Gameplay is skill-based with a high skill ceiling, combo mechanics, and technical movement; players report rewarding…
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+4.0
LIFE EFFECT
Game is challenging with high skill demands, complex crafting, and difficult combat requiring learning and adaptation.
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+4.0
NBA 2K26
The game offers a challenging basketball simulation with skill-based shooting and strategic defense, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Nimbatus - The Space Drone Constructor
Game challenges players to build effective drones, program logic, and optimize designs, requiring skill and problem…
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+4.0
Skautfold: Shrouded in Sanity
Combat is challenging and rewarding, requiring skillful parrying, stamina management, and learning enemy patterns.
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+4.0
Tails of Iron 2: Whiskers of Winter
Combat is challenging and rewarding, with skillful timing, boss pattern learning, and equipment optimization required.
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+4.0
Revhead
Game challenges players to diagnose, repair, and optimize cars; racing requires skill and tuning knowledge.
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+4.0
The Ratline
The game challenges players with complex deduction puzzles requiring skillful analysis and logical reasoning.
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+4.0
Banzai Escape 2: Subterranean
Game features skill-based combat with smart AI, tactical cover mechanics, and increasing difficulty loops that…
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+4.0
Battlerite Royale
High skill ceiling with emphasis on aiming, positioning, and ability usage; players report rewarding skill-based…
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+4.0
Boogeyman
Game requires skillful listening, timing, and resource management to survive increasingly difficult nights.
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+4.0
Chasm: The Rift
The game challenges players with difficult combat, requiring tactical weapon use, dismemberment strategies, and…
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+4.0
Evospace
The game involves mastering complex production chains, energy management, and factory optimization, providing a strong…
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