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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
Super Sus
Players feel effective when identifying impostors and using roles strategically.
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+4.0
Tactic Boxing
The game has a steep learning curve, rewarding skillful timing, distance management, and strategic play, with players…
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+4.0
Uninitialized
The game offers challenging objectives and requires skillful play and strategic planning to complete missions and earn…
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+4.0
Way of the Samurai 3
Combat requires skillful timing, parrying, and mastering different weapon styles; progression involves upgrading…
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+4.0
WRC 5 FIA World Rally Championship
Game offers skill challenges with realistic driving physics, damage management, and AI difficulty settings.
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+4.0
50 Floors: The Paranormal Investigators Prologue
Game challenges observation skills and memory with increasing difficulty and unique anomalies, requiring careful…
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+4.0
After Long Night
The game features a steep difficulty curve and requires strategic planning and skillful management to survive…
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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
Cross Blitz
The game offers challenging roguelike and story modes requiring skillful deckbuilding, strategic play, and adapting to…
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+4.0
Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless
Game involves skillful tactical combat, strategic planning, and overcoming challenging enemies with feedback on…
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+4.0
Making History: The Great War
The game offers complex management of resources, economy, military, and diplomacy, requiring skill and strategic…
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+4.0
Minutescape
Game requires skillful dodging and reflexes combined with strategic upgrade choices; players feel effective as they…
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+4.0
MXGP2 - The Official Motocross Videogame
Game offers a challenging learning curve with realistic physics and AI difficulty, rewarding skillful riding and tuning.
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+4.0
Pixel Heroes: Byte & Magic
The game offers challenging turn-based combat requiring strategic thinking and equipment management.
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+4.0
Pro Cycling Manager 2018
The game offers challenging AI, skillful race management, and rider progression systems that reward effective play and…
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow
The game challenges players with stealth mechanics, AI reactions, and mission complexity requiring skill and precision.
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+4.0
UnderMine 2
The game is challenging, requiring skillful play, deliberate tactics, and mastery of mechanics; players receive clear…
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+4.0
Agarest: Generations of War Zero
Combat system is challenging and strategic, requiring skillful positioning and combo mastery; grinding and crafting add…
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+4.0
Aven Colony
Requires skillful resource management, balancing workforce, and responding to environmental challenges.
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+4.0
City of Gangsters
The game involves complex resource management, strategic planning, and overcoming logistical challenges with feedback…
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+4.0
Cossacks: European Wars
The game requires skillful management of economy, military tactics, and micromanagement of large armies with complex…
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+4.0
Dragon Nest
Combat is skill-based and requires reflexes and strategy, with challenging PvE and PvP content that rewards mastery.
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+4.0
Fantastic Contraption
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skillful construction and understanding of physics, with feedback from…
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+4.0
Flinthook
Game demands skillful platforming, aiming, and use of grappling hook and time-slow mechanics; players improve through…
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