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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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A strong dose of competence and thrill in the same game.
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+4.0
Call of Duty®: WWII
The game offers challenging combat, especially on higher difficulties, with rewarding progression and skill improvement.
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+4.0
Descenders Next
The game has a high skill ceiling with challenging controls, requiring mastery of speed management, carving, and…
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+4.0
Exoblast
Game is easy to learn but hard to master, with a high skill ceiling and rewarding skillful play.
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+4.0
SKIBIDI GYATROOMS
The game offers challenging boss fights and skill-based mechanics like click speed and dodging, requiring player skill…
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+4.0
Swarm Grinder
Game challenges players with managing resources, enemy spawns, and build synergies; requires skillful play and…
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+4.0
Need for Speed: ProStreet
The game demands skillful driving, gear shifting, and tuning knowledge, with challenging race types and a damage system…
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+4.0
Somewhere in the Shadow
The game features challenging puzzles and requires skillful cooperation to progress, providing feedback and a sense of…
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+4.0
Battlefield 3™
The game offers skill-based gunplay, vehicle mastery, and tactical teamwork with feedback, challenging players to…
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+4.0
Leenie Boog
The game requires skillful listening, quick reactions, and learning enemy patterns to succeed, providing a challenging…
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+4.0
Rosenkreuzstilette
The game is challenging with precise platforming and difficult bosses requiring pattern learning and skillful execution.
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+4.0
Wreckfest 2
Driving physics and damage models are complex and realistic, requiring skillful control and offering satisfying…
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+4.0
Contra Anniversary Collection
Games are challenging with pattern memorization and skillful play required; save states help but mastery is rewarded.
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+4.0
Road Scars: Origins
Game is described as challenging with a high difficulty curve, requiring skillful driving and combat to succeed…
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+4.0
Spectral Scream
The game offers a challenging experience requiring skillful use of items, strategic planning, and learning enemy…
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+4.0
WASTED
Challenging gameplay with skill-based combat, learning curve, and strategic resource management
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+4.0
Need for Speed: Carbon - Own the City
Challenging AI and skill-based racing with a learning curve and importance of timing wingman assists.
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+4.0
2Dark
The game requires skillful stealth, puzzle solving, and strategic planning with challenging AI and punishing mechanics.
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+4.0
Gangs of Space
Game involves skillful dodging in bullet hell, strategic leveling, and overcoming challenging bosses.
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+4.0
Garten of Banban 6
Puzzles are challenging and require problem solving; players report brain usage and difficulty, indicating skill…
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+4.0
Gears 5
The game offers challenging combat, skill-based multiplayer, and progression systems that reward player effectiveness…
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+4.0
Bouncy Goat Climb
The game is highly challenging and punishing, demanding precise skill and timing to progress.
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+4.0
Nin Online
Combat is skill-based with a high skill ceiling; players report rewarding progression and strategic PvP.
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+4.0
Subsistence
Game is challenging with skill needed to survive, hunt, build, and manage resources; players report learning curve and…
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+4.0
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
The game challenges players with stealth mechanics, noise control, and asthma management requiring skill and careful…
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