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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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+4.0
Dead Estate
The game offers a fair but challenging difficulty curve, requiring skillful play and mastery of mechanics to progress…
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+4.0
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
The game offers challenging gameplay with skill trees, equipment upgrades, and strategic tower placement requiring…
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+4.0
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Skill progression and augmentations provide meaningful character development and mastery challenges.
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+4.0
Dicevaders
The game offers complex strategic depth, skillful dice and resource management, and meaningful feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Don't Starve Together
Game requires learning mechanics, mastering combat and survival skills, and provides feedback through repeated attempts…
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+4.0
dotAGE
The game offers complex strategic challenges, resource management, and requires skillful planning to overcome…
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+4.0
Dying Light
The game offers skill-based parkour and combat mechanics with progression and challenges, especially at night.
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+4.0
EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 4.1 The Shadow of New Despair
The game offers challenging combat, especially on higher difficulties, requiring skillful play, tactical adaptation…
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+4.0
Everhood
The game features challenging rhythm-based bullet hell battles that require skill and mastery, with no-hit achievements…
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+4.0
Final Fantasy X
The Conditional Turn-Based Battle system rewards strategic planning and skillful execution, with meaningful feedback…
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+4.0
Gnomes
The game offers a challenging tower defense experience with skillful resource management, mazing, and adapting to…
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+4.0
Halls of Torment
The game demands skillful positioning, aiming, and build optimization; players overcome challenging bosses and enemy…
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+4.0
Happy Wheels
Game requires mastering challenging physics and precise timing; players improve skills through trial-and-error and…
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+4.0
Hex of Steel
Game offers challenging AI, complex tactical and strategic decisions, and rewards skillful play.
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+4.0
Hitler Waifu
Gameplay involves skillful combat and challenging boss fights, described as 'Dark Souls' difficulty by users.
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+4.0
Horizon's Gate
The game features deep tactical combat with many classes and skills, rewarding skillful play and strategic thinking.
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+4.0
House of Necrosis
The game challenges players with difficult bosses, strategic combat, and resource management, rewarding skillful play…
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+4.0
Intergalactic Fishing
The game offers skill-based fishing mechanics, lure crafting, and progression through learning fish behaviors and…
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+4.0
Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!
Players feel effective as they learn to sort books and unlock spells.
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+4.0
LunarLux
Combat involves skillful timing, dodging, and strategic deck-building elements, providing a satisfying challenge and…
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+4.0
Mars First Logistics
The game challenges players to solve physics-based puzzles and optimize vehicle designs, providing skill feedback and…
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+4.0
Metroid Prime
The game challenges players with tactical combat, puzzle-solving, and platforming that require skill and mastery of…
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+4.0
My Card Is Better Than Your Card!
The game offers deep strategic challenges, requiring skillful deckbuilding, optimization, and tactical play against AI…
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+4.0
NERTS! Online
High skill ceiling with emphasis on speed, strategy, and quick reflexes; players receive immediate feedback on…
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