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Growth
Learning or personal development
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Top picks
Popular, well-rated games with a strong growth score.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Growth affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
RollerCoaster Tycoon®: Deluxe
Players develop skills in management, coaster design, and strategic planning through progressive challenges.
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+4.0
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
Players develop skills, learn mechanics, and progress through meta-progression and character upgrades.
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+4.0
World of Goo
Players develop problem-solving skills, spatial reasoning, and mastery of physics mechanics.
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+4.0
Splatoon 2
Progression systems and skill development in multiplayer and single-player support learning and improvement.
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+4.0
Bloons TD Battles
Players develop skills, learn strategies, and unlock towers/upgrades over time.
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+4.0
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Players develop skills in traversal, combat, and logistics; game rewards learning and mastery over time.
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+4.0
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Skill development and mastery over complex mechanics is a key motivation.
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+4.0
MudRunner
Players develop driving skills, map knowledge, and problem-solving abilities over time.
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+4.0
Orcs Must Die! 2
Players develop skills and upgrade traps and weapons, showing clear progression and learning.
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+4.0
Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter
Players develop skills in aiming, movement, and tactical prioritization.
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+4.0
theHunter: Call of the Wild™
Players develop hunting skills, knowledge of animal behavior, and progress through skill trees.
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+4.0
Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition
Players develop strategic skills, learn historical tactics, and improve gameplay proficiency.
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+4.0
Total War: SHOGUN 2
Players develop skills in strategy and tactics, and progress generals and units through experience.
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+4.0
A Taste of the Past
Players experience emotional growth and learning about grief, heritage, and self-acceptance.
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+4.0
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
Players develop reasoning skills and learn to solve complex mysteries through gameplay progression.
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+4.0
Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
Players learn combat mechanics, develop strategies, and experience character and story growth.
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+4.0
Cast n Chill
Players learn fishing mechanics, species behavior, and improve gear progressively.
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+4.0
DICEOMANCER
Players learn complex mechanics, improve strategies, and unlock new cards and relics through progression.
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+4.0
Emberward
Players develop skills in strategy, tower placement, and maze building; meta-progression adds learning.
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+4.0
Empires of the Undergrowth
Players learn game mechanics, improve strategies, and develop colony management skills
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+4.0
Epic Battle Fantasy 4
Players develop characters through leveling, skill acquisition, equipment upgrades, and strategic learning.
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+4.0
FINAL FANTASY
Players develop characters through leveling, acquiring spells and equipment, and improving skills.
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+4.0
Griftlands
Players develop skills, unlock cards, and improve characters through meta-progression
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+4.0
inbento
Players develop spatial reasoning and puzzle-solving skills progressively through increasingly complex levels.
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