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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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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Skulls of the Shogun
The game offers tactical depth, challenging AI, and requires skillful planning and positioning to succeed.
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+4.0
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Vegas 2
The game offers challenging AI, tactical gameplay, and a leveling system rewarding skillful play and strategy.
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+4.0
Black Closet
Gameplay involves skill checks, stat management, and tactical decision-making with feedback on success or failure.
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+4.0
Descent: Legends of the Dark
Challenging tactical combat requiring strategic use of character abilities and enemy weaknesses.
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+4.0
Morphblade
The game challenges players to think strategically and tactically, mastering tile synergies and enemy behaviors to…
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+4.0
Nexus 5X
Game involves strategic decision-making, optimization of limited actions, and skillful management of resources and…
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+4.0
OpenFront
Game requires strategic thinking, skillful timing, and resource management; players report a learning curve and skill…
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+4.0
The Dungeon Beneath
The game offers challenging tactical combat requiring skillful positioning and strategic team building with feedback on…
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+4.0
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
Game offers challenging AI, complex unit management, micromanagement, and strategic depth requiring skill and learning.
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+4.0
Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes
The game is challenging with tactical depth, requiring skillful unit management and strategic planning.
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+4.0
Villages & Dungeons
The game requires skillful deck construction, strategic planning, and adaptation to enemy builds, rewarding mastery and…
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+4.0
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
The game is challenging with complex combat and skill systems requiring mastery and strategic planning.
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+4.0
Gomoku Let's Go
The game offers multiple AI difficulty levels and challenging puzzles that test strategic skill and pattern recognition.
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+4.0
GROUND BRANCH
The game demands skillful tactical movement, aiming, and coordination; mistakes are punished quickly, requiring…
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+4.0
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS
The game requires skillful management of multiple unit types and complex strategies, with a steep learning curve.
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+4.0
Police Stories
The game is challenging with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful tactics, quick reactions, and mastery of…
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+4.0
Silent Hunter® III
High skill ceiling with manual torpedo targeting, navigation, and crew management; rewarding mastery.
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+4.0
SMITE®
The game demands skillful aiming, timing, and strategic itemization; mastery of many gods and builds is encouraged.
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+4.0
Card-en-Ciel
The game requires strategic planning, understanding complex card interactions, and mastering combos to succeed.
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+4.0
Cubot
Challenging puzzles require skillful planning and problem solving; feedback on move counts encourages mastery.
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+4.0
Dark Deity 2
Gameplay offers challenging tactical combat requiring skillful positioning, ability use, and strategic planning…
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+4.0
Dicefolk
The game challenges players to optimize dice sequences and team synergies, rewarding skillful planning and tactical…
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+4.0
HELLCARD
Game involves strategic planning, skillful card play, and overcoming challenging enemies with feedback on performance…
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+4.0
Legend Battles
The game demands skillful play with complex AI, tactical decision-making, mastery of specialists, and challenging…
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