Find your kind of game
Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
Explore another motivation
Less story
High competence scores, with story at +0 or below.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Competence affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
-
+4.0
Airport CEO
The game demands significant skill in planning, problem-solving, and managing complex systems, with a steep learning…
-
+4.0
Arma Reforger
The game challenges players with realistic combat mechanics, tactical coordination, and skillful gunplay; players…
-
+4.0
Ashes of the Singularity
The game challenges players with large-scale strategic planning, resource management, and tactical execution, rewarding…
-
+4.0
Asphalt: Nitro
The game requires mastering technical skills like perfect nitro timing, drifting, and avoiding wrecks, with increasing…
-
+4.0
Mini Militia - Doodle Army 2
The game rewards skillful jetpack management, aiming, and strategic play; mastery improves performance and is…
-
+4.0
Orbital Gear
High skill ceiling with challenging gravity-based movement and weapon mastery; players report rewarding skill…
-
+4.0
Spider Solitaire
The game offers significant strategic challenge, especially in 2- and 4-suit modes, rewarding skillful planning and…
-
+4.0
Temple Run
The game requires quick reflexes and hand-eye coordination with escalating difficulty and skill-based survival.
-
+4.0
Traffic Rider
The game challenges players with timing, reflexes, and skillful maneuvering through traffic, rewarding mastery and…
-
+4.0
WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Party Games!
The game challenges players' reflexes and quick thinking with rapidly increasing speed and difficulty, providing…
-
+4.0
Assembly Planter
The game challenges players to optimize production lines, manage resource flow, and solve logistic puzzles with…
-
+4.0
Interloper
Game requires skillful micro-management, quick thinking, and strategic planning to succeed.
-
+4.0
Skewer Squad
The game features escalating difficulty, requiring skillful micro-management and build optimization to succeed.
-
+4.0
Time Rifters
Players engage in skillful shooting, strategic planning, and optimizing runs to achieve 100% completion and high scores.
-
+4.0
Variables 2
The game offers challenging strategic and tactical decisions, especially at higher difficulties, requiring skill and…
-
+4.0
F1® Manager 2024
The game requires strategic thinking, managing multiple complex systems, and overcoming challenges like car development…
-
+4.0
Calculate It
The game challenges players with limited button uses and complex calculations, requiring skillful mental math and…
-
+4.0
Drift Phonk 666
The game demands precision, quick adaptation, and mastery of a unique drifting mechanic, providing a challenging…
-
+4.0
illWill
Combat requires skillful aiming, weapon switching, and enemy pattern recognition; difficulty modes and modifiers add…
-
+4.0
Neptunia Shooter
The game is challenging and requires skillful dodging and character switching to progress.
-
+4.0
Osmos
The game offers challenging physics-based puzzles and requires skillful maneuvering and strategic planning, especially…
-
+4.0
Power Fantasy
The game offers challenging runs, skill-based dodging, and requires strategic upgrade choices, with feedback on…
-
+4.0
Verlet Swing
Game requires mastering challenging swinging mechanics and precise timing, with skill improvement rewarded by better…
-
+4.0
Block N Load
High skill ceiling with tactical depth, mastery of unique classes, aiming, building, and strategic planning required.
Same motivation, different experiences
Your way to play
Explore different sides of competence, grouped by what players enjoy.
Fine-tune your next game
A little more you
Mix in another motivation, or find an experience with less of something else.
