Skill & Precision Games · 66

Precision games expose controller differences quickly: latency, dead zones and key rollover can matter when the challenge is measured in tiny timing windows. That connects nicely with a historical detail. One-button games are a design stress test: when the input vocabulary is tiny, timing and level design have to provide almost all the depth. The cruelest leaderboard position is second because it comes with exact instructions for what still hurts.