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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 growth in the same game.
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+4.0
Kena: Bridge of Spirits
Combat and boss fights provide challenging skill tests, especially on higher difficulties; players receive clear…
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+4.0
Sanctum 2
The game requires skillful shooting, strategic tower placement, and adapting to enemy types; challenging especially at…
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+4.0
The Riftbreaker
The game offers skill-based combat, strategic base building, and a large tech tree providing challenges and feedback on…
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+4.0
Transport Fever 2
Requires significant brain usage, strategic planning, and skill to optimize supply chains and transport routes.
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+4.0
Amanda the Adventurer
Engaging and challenging puzzles require attention, lateral thinking, and problem solving, with some requiring external…
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+4.0
Bento Blocks
Puzzles require spatial reasoning and strategic planning with increasing difficulty, rewarding skillful and efficient…
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+4.0
Dawnsbury Days
The game offers challenging tactical combat encounters requiring skillful planning and execution, especially on higher…
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+4.0
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
The game features challenging combat and hacking mechanics requiring skill, experimentation, and mastery, with…
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+4.0
Escape Memoirs: Questionable Side Stories
Puzzles are challenging, require logical thinking, and provide satisfying feedback upon solving.
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+4.0
Intravenous 2: Mercenarism
Game offers significant skill challenge with tactical stealth, AI awareness, and weapon customization requiring mastery.
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+4.0
ISLANDERS: New Shores
The game offers strategic depth, skillful placement challenges, and feedback through scoring and achievements…
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+4.0
Juufuutei Raden™'s Guide for Pixel Museum
The game offers challenging puzzles up to 40x30 grids with quality of life features and feedback, supporting skill…
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+4.0
Loop-Loop DX
The game offers skill challenges, bullet hell mechanics, and achievement-based goals that provide feedback on player…
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+4.0
Maiden and Spell
The game offers skill-based bullet hell combat with a learning curve, challenging boss fights, and multiplayer…
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+4.0
Mosa Lina
The game challenges players to master complex physics and item interactions, rewarding skillful and creative problem…
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+4.0
Ragnarock
Game rewards precise timing and skillful drumming; high difficulty levels are challenging and require mastery.
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+4.0
Submachine: Legacy
The game offers challenging puzzles that require skill, observation, and note-taking, with rewarding feedback upon…
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+4.0
NHL 17
The game offers skill-based gameplay with precise puck control, goalie mechanics, and strategic net battles; adaptive…
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+4.0
AI LIMIT
Combat requires skillful timing, parrying, and learning enemy patterns; bosses provide challenging tests of player…
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+4.0
Amnesia: The Bunker
Game requires skillful resource management, strategic planning, and mastering monster AI behavior to survive.
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+4.0
Burger Shop 2
Game offers challenging time-management and multitasking tasks with increasing difficulty and achievement hunting.
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+4.0
Cave Crawlers
The game offers challenging combat, boss fights, and skill progression that rewards mastery and learning.
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+4.0
CrossCode
The game requires skillful combat, puzzle solving, and platforming with increasing difficulty, providing strong…
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+4.0
Escape from Ever After
Combat is challenging and strategic with timing-based action commands, puzzles require clever thinking, and players…
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