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Competence
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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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Tomb Raider II (1997)
The game requires skillful platforming, combat, and puzzle solving with challenging jumps and enemy encounters.
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+4.0
360 No Scope Arena
The game emphasizes skillful aiming and timing of 360 no-scope shots, with a learning curve and improvement over time…
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+4.0
Angry Penguin
The game offers a challenging die-and-retry platforming experience requiring skill, timing, and learning from failures.
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+4.0
Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation
The game offers challenging platforming and boss fights requiring skill and timing, with feedback on performance and…
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+4.0
Death Crown
Game offers a skill challenge with fast-paced RTS mechanics, requiring quick decisions and adaptation to AI and map…
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+4.0
Electronic Super Joy 2
The game is described as brutally hard with challenging platforming requiring skill and precision, rewarding mastery…
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+4.0
In Falsus
The rhythm game is challenging with a high skill ceiling and complex controls, rewarding skill development and mastery.
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+4.0
Inside the Backrooms
Challenging puzzles requiring significant brain usage and skillful avoidance of entities provide a strong sense of…
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+4.0
Lithium City
Game challenges players with precise aiming, dodging, and strategic use of weapons; skillful play is rewarded.
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+4.0
MannaRites
The game features challenging combat with skill-based timing, combos, blocking, and positioning, requiring mastery and…
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+4.0
Sinister Night 2
Game involves complex social deduction, strategic item use, and skillful deception requiring attentive observation and…
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+4.0
The Light Brigade
Challenging combat with skill-based gunplay, boss fights, and progression systems that reward mastery.
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+4.0
The Three Kingdoms: The Tales of Jian An
The game offers challenging difficulty levels with strategic depth, requiring skillful planning and tactical execution.
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+4.0
BRAIN / OUT
Game rewards skillful play, aiming, and tactical thinking; players report satisfying gunplay and challenging stealth…
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+4.0
Jets'n'Guns Gold
The game offers challenging gameplay with a steep learning curve, requiring skillful maneuvering and strategic weapon…
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+4.0
Requiem of Reuinis
The game challenges players with strategic planning, optimization, and resource management, rewarding skillful build…
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+4.0
Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe
The game challenges players with complex logistics, supply management, combat tactics, and strategic planning…
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+4.0
Super 3-D Noah's Ark
The game is challenging with difficult enemies and bosses requiring skillful play and resource management.
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+4.0
The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful timing and coordination, with feedback on performance and…
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+4.0
The Ship: Murder Party
Requires skillful stealth, tracking, and strategic planning to succeed; players receive feedback through arrests…
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+4.0
TOKOYO: The Tower of Perpetuity
High skill requirement for precise platforming, timing, and route memorization; players improve through trial and error.
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+4.0
X-COM: Apocalypse
The game offers complex tactical challenges, strategic management, and adaptive AI requiring skillful play and…
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+4.0
12 is Better Than 6
Game requires skillful aiming, reloading mechanics mastery, and strategic planning to overcome challenging one-hit kill…
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+4.0
Isonzo
High skill ceiling with realistic gunplay, tactical gameplay, and progression system rewarding mastery.
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