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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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High competence scores, with story at +0 or below.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
You Have to Win the Game
The game is challenging with precise platforming, timing, and skillful dodging required; players improve through…
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+4.0
Chronicon
Game offers deep skill trees, complex item crafting, and challenging endgame content requiring skill and strategy.
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+4.0
I wanna be the Creator
The game features challenging platforming requiring skill, precision, and learning from failure, rewarding player…
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+4.0
SNKRX
Game offers skill-based challenges in positioning, build optimization, and resource management with feedback through…
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+4.0
Sudoku Universe / 数独宇宙
The game offers a range of difficulties from easy to hard, including challenging puzzles that require logical thinking…
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+4.0
Clockwork Cleanup
Game requires skillful spatial logic, puzzle solving, and strategic planning to optimize builds and overcome challenges.
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+4.0
Day of Defeat: Source
The game has a steep learning curve, requires skillful aiming and recoil control, and rewards tactical play and…
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+4.0
Mad Games Tycoon 2
Game involves overcoming complex management challenges, optimizing game features, and strategic decisions to succeed.
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+4.0
Pictopix
Puzzles require logical deduction and skillful problem solving with increasing difficulty and challenge.
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+4.0
Vital Shell
The game is skill-focused with challenging waves and bosses, requiring player mastery of movement, aiming, and build…
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+4.0
Waves
The game challenges players with increasing difficulty, requiring skillful movement, aiming, and combo management…
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+4.0
Wizard of Legend
The game is challenging with a high skill ceiling; players improve by mastering combos, dodging, and timing, receiving…
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+4.0
Worms Armageddon
The game features a high skill ceiling with nuanced physics, weapon mastery, and strategic depth, rewarding player…
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+4.0
Banished
The game is challenging with complex resource balancing and survival mechanics requiring skillful management and…
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+4.0
Gamble With Your Friends
Players feel effective when they successfully navigate gambling mechanics.
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+4.0
APE OUT
Game requires skillful timing, quick reflexes, and mastering mechanics like grabbing, throwing, and positioning to…
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+4.0
Dungeon Warfare
The game offers challenging levels with strategic trap placement, upgrades, and modifiers that require skillful…
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+4.0
Lazerbait
Game offers skill-based challenges with AI difficulty levels and requires strategic multitasking and micromanagement.
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+4.0
Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game
High skill ceiling with challenging parkour mechanics and rewarding mastery; players improve through practice and…
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+4.0
Software Inc.
Game involves complex management, skillful delegation, and strategic decision-making with feedback on software quality…
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+4.0
Space Pirate Trainer
Game challenges players to improve aiming, dodging, and weapon switching skills with increasing wave difficulty and…
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+4.0
Wheelchair Wizards
Game features skill-based fast-paced combat with strategic spell combos and upgrades.
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+4.0
Zeepkist
Game features a high skill ceiling with challenging tracks and precise physics requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Fishing Planet
Game involves skillful fishing mechanics, equipment management, and learning fish behavior; players receive feedback…
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