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Competence
Feeling effective and skillful (e.g. overcoming challenges, mastering mechanics)
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Competence + Growth
A strong dose of competence and growth in the same game.
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+4.0
Anyland
Players engage in complex building, scripting, and animation challenges with feedback and skill growth.
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+4.0
Avorion
Requires skill in ship design, fleet management, combat, and economic strategy with meaningful feedback and progression.
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+4.0
Betrayal At Club Low
The game involves skillful dice manipulation, strategic resource management, and overcoming challenging dice-roll…
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+4.0
Clanfolk
The game offers challenging survival mechanics, especially preparing for winter, requiring skillful resource management…
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+4.0
Depth
The game requires skillful aiming, teamwork, and strategic use of equipment and abilities, with a notable learning…
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+4.0
Die in the Dungeon
The game offers a high skill ceiling with strategic dice placement, combo building, and overcoming challenging enemies…
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+4.0
Dogpile
Game offers strategic depth with deckbuilding, combo creation, and spatial puzzle challenges rewarding skill and…
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+4.0
Driving Rogue
Driving mechanics reward skillful drifting, near misses, and combo management; players improve through practice and…
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+4.0
Happy Wheels
Game requires mastering challenging physics and precise timing; players improve skills through trial-and-error and…
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+4.0
Horizon Chase Turbo
Game offers skill-based racing with challenging AI, requiring memorization of tracks and precise driving to win and…
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+4.0
Kero Blaster
The game offers challenging platforming and shooting with skill-based boss fights and a difficulty curve that rewards…
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+4.0
LUMINES REMASTERED
High skill ceiling with challenging puzzles, missions, and modes; players report learning curves and mastery over time.
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+4.0
Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms
Game involves strategic skill in managing campaigns and real-time battles; players overcome complex challenges.
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+4.0
Pharaoh + Cleopatra
The game offers challenging city management, balancing economy, defense, and monument building with feedback on…
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+4.0
PIPE by BMX Streets
Game has a steep learning curve with nuanced controls and physics that reward skill mastery and trick execution.
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+4.0
Quest Master
The game offers complex puzzle design, combat challenges, and a powerful editor that rewards skillful use and mastery.
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+4.0
Renowned Explorers: International Society
The game involves mastering complex tactical combat, skill checks, and strategic resource management, rewarding…
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+4.0
ROGUE LIGHT DECK BUILDER
Players experience skill growth through mastering hammer physics, perfect nail hits, and speedrunning challenges.
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+4.0
Stonemachia
Combat requires skillful parrying and dodging with satisfying feedback; bosses offer challenge and reward mastery.
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+4.0
The Rise of the Golden Idol
The game offers challenging puzzles requiring skillful deduction and reasoning, with feedback on correct or incorrect…
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+4.0
There Are No Orcs
Game offers strategic depth, skillful building placement, and commander mastery with feedback through progression and…
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+4.0
Town of Salem
High skill ceiling involving social deduction, lying, and strategic thinking with feedback from player interactions.
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+4.0
UnderMine
Game requires skillful combat, learning enemy patterns, and strategic use of relics; players feel effective as they…
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+4.0
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Anniversary Edition (Classic)
The game requires tactical skill, micromanagement, and strategic use of abilities, with a high skill ceiling especially…
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