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Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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High competence scores, with relaxation at +0 or below.
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+4.0
Anger Foot
Game requires skillful execution, pattern recognition, and mastery of mechanics with challenging levels and boss fights.
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+4.0
Peace, Death!
Game tests players' skill in quick observation, memory, and decision-making under time pressure.
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+4.0
CAPTURED
The game requires skillful observation, memory, and quick reactions to avoid enemies and correctly identify anomalies…
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+4.0
Police Stories: The Academy
The game requires significant brain usage, tactical planning, and skillful execution with feedback on performance.
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+4.0
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate
The game requires skillful chess knowledge, strategic thinking, and mastery of shotgun mechanics to overcome…
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+4.0
Swarmlake
Game demands skillful movement, swarm management, and score optimization with clear feedback and leaderboards.
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+4.0
THE CANON OF BALLS
The game offers challenging physics-based platforming requiring skill mastery and precise control, with feedback…
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+4.0
Traditional Chinese Medicine Simulator
Success depends on understanding complex medical concepts and applying knowledge effectively.
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
The game requires skillful management of multiple systems under pressure, with unpredictable animatronic behavior and…
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+4.0
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
The game offers challenging mechanics, especially on later nights, requiring skill and mastery.
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+4.0
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
The game offers a challenging bullet hell experience requiring skillful dodging and pattern memorization, with…
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+4.0
Max Payne 3
The game offers challenging gunplay, skillful use of bullet time, and tactical cover mechanics requiring player skill.
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+4.0
PICO PARK 2
Game challenges players with increasingly difficult puzzles requiring skill, timing, and coordination.
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+4.0
Salt and Sanctuary
Challenging combat requiring skillful dodging, parrying, and boss pattern learning; progression through leveling and…
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+4.0
1982
The game offers challenging gameplay with skill expression, requiring players to learn enemy patterns and strategize…
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+4.0
Afterbeat (Project Arrhythmia)
Challenging gameplay with difficult bullet-hell levels requiring skill and mastery; players receive feedback and can…
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+4.0
Boomerang X
The game challenges players with skill-based aiming, movement mastery, and combo execution.
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+4.0
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint
The game offers complex tactical challenges, skill trees, and requires strategic planning and execution, rewarding…
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+4.0
DEMON'S TILT
Game rewards skillful play, learning complex mechanics, and mastering fast-paced pinball action with boss fights and…
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+4.0
Hidden & Dangerous 2: Courage Under Fire
The game offers challenging tactical gameplay requiring skillful squad management, aiming, stealth, and strategy, with…
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+4.0
Rodland of Pipes
The game requires skillful navigation, puzzle solving, and resource management with a challenging difficulty curve and…
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+4.0
Alien Hominid HD
The game is challenging and requires skill, focus, and persistence to progress, with players reporting satisfaction in…
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+4.0
Clea
The game challenges players with stealth, timing, puzzle-solving, and requires skillful use of sound cues and limited…
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+4.0
Depth
The game requires skillful aiming, teamwork, and strategic use of equipment and abilities, with a notable learning…
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