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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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+4.0
Rogue Lords
The game requires skillful planning and mastery of complex mechanics, including resource management, skill recharge…
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+4.0
SHRAPNEL
Game demands skillful gunplay, positioning, and tactical decision-making with quick time-to-kill and punishing mistakes.
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+4.0
Space Food Truck
Game challenges players to manage decks, coordinate roles, and overcome random events, requiring skillful planning and…
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+4.0
Summa Expeditionis
The game features a steep learning curve, complex management systems, and challenging survival and combat mechanics…
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+4.0
The Guild II - Pirates of the European Seas
The game is described as difficult with a steep learning curve and requires skill to manage economy, politics, and…
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+4.0
The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
The game features deep and complex systems with challenging combat and cultivation mechanics that reward skill and…
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+4.0
Age of Conan: Unchained
Combat system is skill-based with combos and positioning, requiring mastery and offering challenge; quests and…
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+4.0
Battlefield™ V
The game offers challenging gunplay, skill-based shooting, and tactical teamwork, with achievements requiring mastery…
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+4.0
DAIMON BLADES
Combat is skill-based with timing, positioning, parrying, and mastering weapon mechanics; runs require learning and…
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+4.0
For The King II
Players feel effective as they learn to manage combat mechanics and character builds.
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+4.0
Gears 5
The game offers challenging combat, skill-based multiplayer, and progression systems that reward player effectiveness…
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+4.0
Ghosts of Tabor
The game offers a steep learning curve, skill-based gunplay, tactical combat, and progression through reputation and…
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+4.0
Hellpoint: The Thespian Feast
Combat requires learning enemy movesets, timing, and strategic use of weapons and abilities; boss fights are…
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+4.0
Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis TD
High difficulty on Veteran and Impossible modes requires skillful strategy, micromanagement, and adaptation to…
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+4.0
Lost Lullabies: The Orphanage Chronicles
Game requires skillful observation, puzzle solving, and teamwork to identify ghosts and complete exorcisms.
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+4.0
Medieval: Total War™ - Collection
The game offers challenging AI, complex mechanics, and requires skillful management and tactical battle control…
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+4.0
Monster Hunter Wilds
Combat is skill-based with a high learning curve, requiring mastery of weapons and monster patterns; endgame content…
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+4.0
Mordheim: City of the Damned
High skill ceiling with complex tactical combat and character progression; success requires mastering mechanics and…
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+4.0
NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence - Ascension
The game offers complex city and castle management, strategic planning, and tactical battles requiring skill and…
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+4.0
PERISH
Game offers challenging combat requiring skillful dodging, blocking, and weapon mastery; players report satisfying…
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+4.0
Souls of Blades
The game features challenging combat requiring skillful timing, combo execution, and boss pattern recognition, though…
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+4.0
Surviving the Aftermath
The game challenges players with resource management, strategic planning, and adapting to disasters, requiring skillful…
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+4.0
The Hand of Merlin
The game offers challenging turn-based tactical combat requiring skillful planning and execution, with meaningful…
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+4.0
The Manga Works
Players improve skills, manage resources, and face strategic challenges in manga creation and career progression.
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