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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Competence + Strategy
A strong dose of competence and strategy in the same game.
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+4.0
Bad North: Jotunn Edition
The game offers challenging tactical depth, requiring skillful unit management and strategic planning, especially at…
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+4.0
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
The game features complex tactical combat requiring skillful use of spells, positioning, and party management, with a…
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+4.0
Super Auto Pets
Game offers strategic depth and skill mastery with meaningful decisions and feedback on team performance.
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+4.0
Cassette Beasts
Combat system is deep and strategic with unique elemental interactions and fusion mechanics, rewarding skill and…
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+4.0
Creeper World 4
Game offers challenging RTS and tower defense mechanics with skillful resource management and strategic planning.
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+4.0
Dungeons of Dredmor
The game offers challenging combat, skill mastery, crafting complexity, and requires strategic thinking to progress.
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+4.0
Rusted Warfare - RTS
Game offers skill-based challenges with AI difficulty levels, multiplayer competition, and strategic depth requiring…
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+4.0
The Battle of Polytopia
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, with strategic depth and skillful play rewarded.
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+4.0
Touhou Kouryudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers.
The game is challenging with complex bullet patterns and requires skill to master; players receive feedback through…
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+4.0
Pro Evolution Soccer 2015
The game demands skillful play, tactical understanding, and mastery of controls, rewarding effective decision-making…
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+4.0
Combolands: Roguelike Citybuilder
The game rewards skillful planning, understanding synergies, and optimizing combos, with increasing difficulty levels…
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+4.0
Command & Conquer™ 3: Kane’s Wrath
Game offers challenging missions, strategic planning, unit management, and skillful execution especially in harder…
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+4.0
Dishonored 2
The game offers challenging stealth and combat mechanics, requiring skillful use of powers and tactics, with feedback…
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+4.0
Divinity: Original Sin (Classic)
Challenging turn-based combat with strategic depth and environmental interactions requires skill and tactical thinking.
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+4.0
OCTOPATH TRAVELER II
Combat system is strategic and challenging, requiring skillful planning and mastery of mechanics; grinding is present…
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+4.0
Omelet You Cook
Game offers a high skill ceiling with strategic ingredient placement, synergy building, and time pressure challenges…
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+4.0
Demon Lord: Just a Block
The game demands skillful positioning, timing for parry and dodge, and mastery of weapon and ability synergies…
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+4.0
9 Kings
Game offers skillful strategic deckbuilding and tactical placement with meaningful feedback and challenge scaling.
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+4.0
Men of War: Assault Squad 2
High skill ceiling with complex micromanagement, tactical positioning, and detailed unit control requiring mastery.
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+4.0
Minion Masters
Game rewards skillful deck building, timing, and tactical play; players improve by learning counters and mastering…
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+4.0
One Way Heroics
Challenging roguelike gameplay with strategic turn-based combat and skillful resource management.
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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
Songs of Syx
The game features complex management systems and challenges that reward skillful planning and problem solving.
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+4.0
Zeus + Poseidon
Game challenges players with complex city management, logistics, resource balancing, and strategic problem solving.
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