[AnotXOR]

Wondering this as well. Most games do use spacial memory although some shooters are pretty mindless and navigating requires very little thought or effort (think Diablo 3's more linear maps where it's see enemy, shoot, move forward, see enemy, shoot, move forward, etc).

It seems to me like games like Portal / Talos Principle / Amnesia would rely on spacial memory more than most games out there. Can anyone confirm or deny if this hypothesis is correct?

[zitterbewegung]

Playing counter strike professionally requires spatial memory. Even regular competitive play does this. So does Titanfall.

[drngdds]

Yeah. I would expect all competitive gaming to have a much heavier mental load than lower-level gaming.