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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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+5.0
Steel Assault
High skill ceiling with challenging boss fights and hardcore arcade modes requiring mastery and practice.
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+5.0
Throne of Lies®: Medieval Politics
High skill ceiling with complex roles, strategic thinking, social deduction, and learning curve requiring mastery.
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+4.0
MotoGP™23
Game offers challenging physics and requires skill mastery; players report rewarding improvement and difficulty in…
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+4.0
Swing Dunk
The game has a high skill ceiling with challenging mechanics and a learning curve; players report mastering tricky…
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+5.0
Pike and Shot : Campaigns
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful planning and mastery of complex mechanics; AI…
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+5.0
Punch A Bunch
The game is skill-based with a steep learning curve, rewarding mastery of controls and strategy against challenging AI…
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+4.0
Brawlout
The game offers a skill-based fighting system with combos, tech, and a rage mechanic rewarding mastery and technical…
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+4.0
Escape
The game focuses on precision, timing, and skill mastery with challenging platforming and puzzle elements requiring…
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+4.0
TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT
The game offers challenging platforming and combat requiring skill and mastery of controls, with difficulty ramping up.
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+4.0
Velocity®Ultra
The game requires skillful navigation, precise teleportation, and mastery of mechanics to achieve gold medals and high…
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+4.0
World of Subways 2 – Berlin Line 7
Driving the trains requires learning complex controls and mastering braking and signaling, providing a skill challenge.
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+5.0
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter
The game requires mastering complex instruments, multitasking, and tactical planning, providing a challenging…
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+5.0
Duelyst II
The game demands skillful deckbuilding, positioning, and tactical play with a steep learning curve and high skill…
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+5.0
VAIL
High skill ceiling with realistic gunplay, tactical gameplay, and competitive modes requiring significant brain usage…
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+4.0
Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China
The game rewards skillful stealth and combat, with a significant challenge and scoring system encouraging mastery.
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+4.0
Solar Flux
The game challenges players with precise timing, skillful navigation, and mastery of physics-based controls to achieve…
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+5.0
63 Days
The game is highly challenging, requiring skillful planning, precise execution, and mastery of complex stealth and…
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+4.0
100 Doors Game - Escape from School
Game challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles requiring logic, knowledge, and problem-solving skills.
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+4.0
Breakout
The game requires skillful paddle control, mastering curve shots, timing, and strategic use of power-ups to overcome…
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+5.0
Automachef
The game provides challenging puzzles requiring skillful optimization, logical thinking, and programming to achieve…
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+5.0
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition
Game requires skillful hand-eye coordination, fast reflexes, and mastery of upgrade and weapon systems to progress.
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+4.0
Bubsy Two-Fur
The game is challenging with high difficulty, requiring skillful platforming and memorization, rewarding mastery and…
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+4.0
NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD: Typing of The Net
Challenging typing and platforming sections with skill-based S-rank achievements and boss fights.
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+5.0
Frozen Cortex
High skill ceiling with deep tactical gameplay and challenging AI requiring mastery.
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