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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Popular, well-rated games with a strong competence score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Tony Stewart's Sprint Car Racing
The game offers a challenging AI and requires skillful car control and setup tuning, rewarding player improvement and…
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+4.0
TOP DOG
Game is challenging with skill-based dogfighting, requiring mastery of controls and strategic upgrades.
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+4.0
Ultimate Racing 2D
The game offers challenging AI, skillful driving mechanics, tire management, and strategic pit stops that test player…
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+4.0
变量 Variables
The game requires skillful planning of tower placement, path design, and build optimization with complex upgrade and…
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+4.0
Wayout 2: Hex
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful logical thinking and planning to solve.
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+4.0
Yao-Guai Hunter
The game demands tactical thinking, managing energy and deck reshuffling, and mastering unique character mechanics…
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+4.0
Blazing Beaks
Game is challenging and skill-based with tactical combat, enemy patterns, and risk management; players report learning…
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+4.0
Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers
The game demands skillful calculation of odds, strategic deck building, and adapting to enemy gimmicks, providing a…
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+4.0
Fortune Mill
Players feel effective as they progress and unlock upgrades.
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+4.0
Train Sim World® 2
The game offers challenging scenarios requiring skillful operation of trains with realistic physics and detailed…
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+4.0
Urban Trial Freestyle
Game challenges players with skillful bike control, timing, and precision to complete levels and earn stars; repeated…
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+4.0
Waveform
Game is easy to learn but difficult to master, requiring skillful control and timing to achieve high scores and perfect…
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+4.0
9 Monkeys of Shaolin
Combat is skill-based with fluid controls, combos, and difficulty scaling that rewards mastery and timing.
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+4.0
Age of Wonders II: The Wizard's Throne
The game is challenging with complex mechanics, requiring skillful management of units, spells, and strategy to…
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+4.0
Ahnayro: The Dream World
The game challenges players with difficult puzzles requiring skillful research, logical deduction, and puzzle-solving…
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+4.0
Alien Cat
The game requires precise timing, reflexes, and mastery of sensitive controls, especially with gravity inversion and…
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+4.0
Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender
The game offers increasing difficulty, requiring skillful shooting, dodging, and protecting miners, with feedback…
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+4.0
Coin Crypt
Game requires skillful management of coins and quick decision-making under pressure; challenging but rewarding.
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+4.0
Craftlings
The game offers complex logistics puzzles and optimization challenges requiring skillful planning and execution, with…
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+4.0
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down
The game is punishingly difficult, requiring skillful tactics, positioning, and coordination to succeed.
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+4.0
Disc Space
Game offers skill-based play with strategy and coordination, especially against skilled players, requiring mastery of…
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+4.0
Epigraph
The game challenges players with complex linguistic puzzles requiring skillful deduction and reasoning; progress is…
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+4.0
Esports Godfather: The Legend Begins
The game demands strategic thinking, learning hero synergies, counters, and adapting to evolving meta and patch rules…
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+4.0
Evil Tonight
Game requires skillful resource management, combat timing, and puzzle solving with feedback from challenging boss…
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