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Popular, well-rated games with a strong progression score.
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+4.0
Ale & Tale Tavern: First Pints
Players accumulate items, upgrades, and unlock new recipes and tavern expansions, showing clear progression.
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+4.0
Battle for Wesnoth
Unit leveling, experience carryover, and campaign progression provide strong sense of growth and accumulation.
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+4.0
Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander
Features resource gathering, ship upgrades, and career progression with increasing challenges and rewards.
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+4.0
DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION
Players accumulate items, power-ups, and achievements to progress through levels and improve abilities.
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+4.0
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1
Strong emphasis on leveling up, crafting, unlocking plans, and acquiring new equipment and dungeons.
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+4.0
Project Wingman
Players unlock new aircraft, weapons, and upgrades, progressing through campaign and conquest modes.
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+4.0
Strange Horticulture
Players accumulate plants, unlock encyclopedia entries, and progress through story branches and endings.
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+4.0
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
Players accumulate experience, unlock skills, buy cars, and upgrade their workshop.
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+4.0
Dead Space
Strong progression through weapon upgrades, item collection, and story advancement.
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+4.0
Death's Door
Players collect items, weapons, and upgrades that enhance abilities and unlock new areas.
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+4.0
Fallout Shelter
Strong emphasis on accumulating resources, upgrading rooms, and collecting items and dwellers.
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+4.0
Hyper Light Drifter
Players collect upgrades, currency, and unlock new abilities and areas, showing clear progression.
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+4.0
Luck be a Landlord
Players unlock floors, items, and essences, progressing through increasingly difficult challenges.
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+4.0
Super Auto Pets
Players accumulate pets, upgrades, and achievements, progressing through rounds and unlocking content.
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+4.0
Bing in Wonderland
Strong meta progression with unlocks, upgrades, and character development motivating continued play.
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+4.0
Blood™ Fresh Supply
Players accumulate weapons, ammo, and power-ups; progression through levels and unlocking new abilities is core to…
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+4.0
Cairn
Players accumulate items, upgrades, and unlock new routes, progressing through the mountain and story.
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+4.0
Cassette Beasts
Strong progression through monster collection, leveling, fusion upgrades, and story advancement.
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+4.0
Creeper World 4
Players accumulate resources, unlock units, and upgrade capabilities throughout campaign and custom maps.
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+4.0
Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Experience points, skill upgrades, unlocking new areas and abilities provide a clear sense of progression.
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+4.0
Esoteric Ebb
Character progression through leveling, acquiring items, spells, and unlocking new dialogue and story options.
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+4.0
FIND KITTENS: The last of cats
Clear progression by finding cats, unlocking achievements, and coloring map sections.
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+4.0
Funi Raccoon Game
Collecting items and unlocking new areas drives progression and player goals.
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+4.0
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Skill development, unlocking new story content, and collecting cards represent clear progression systems.
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