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Popular, well-rated games with a strong progression score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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Victoria II
Strong focus on accumulating industrial power, military strength, prestige, and territorial expansion.
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+5.0
Chronicon
Strong focus on leveling, item upgrades, mastery progression, and continuous character growth.
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+5.0
Doraemon Dorayaki Shop Story
Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, unlocking recipes, expanding shop, and collecting characters.
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+5.0
One Way Heroics
Strong progression system with unlockable classes, perks, dimensional vault for item carryover.
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+5.0
SNKRX
Strong progression through accumulating units, upgrades, and new game plus modes.
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+5.0
Songs of Syx
Strong focus on accumulating resources, population growth, technology, and territorial expansion.
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+5.0
Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
Strong progression through unlocking furniture, clothing, stickers, and new rooms.
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+5.0
System Shock® 2 (1999)
Strong emphasis on accumulating cybernetic modules, upgrading skills, and collecting weapons and items.
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+5.0
Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
Core gameplay revolves around accumulating upgrades, unlocking new stages, and progressing through evolutionary…
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+5.0
Dungreed
Strong meta-progression through leveling, unlocking items, NPCs, and skills.
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+5.0
Football Manager 2024
Strong emphasis on career progression, player development, and club growth over multiple seasons.
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+5.0
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga
Strong emphasis on collecting characters, upgrades, kyber bricks, and unlocking content.
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+5.0
Mad Games Tycoon 2
Strong focus on accumulating resources, IPs, upgrades, and expanding company influence.
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+5.0
Mortal Sin
Strong meta-progression with unlockable classes, weapons, combos, and upgrades that accumulate over multiple runs.
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+5.0
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Strong progression systems with upgrades, badges, skill trees, and collectible improvements.
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+5.0
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Strong progression through technology, culture, city development, and military power accumulation.
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+5.0
SnowRunner
Strong emphasis on unlocking vehicles, upgrades, and maps through completing tasks and earning experience.
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+5.0
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
Strong emphasis on accumulating better ships, equipment, ranks, and resources throughout gameplay.
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+5.0
X-COM: UFO Defense
Strong progression through research, equipment upgrades, soldier ranks, and base expansion.
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+5.0
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, new moves, weapons, and unlocking characters, driving a clear sense of…
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+5.0
Barony
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, and character development through runs.
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+5.0
Big Ambitions
Strong emphasis on accumulating wealth, items, upgrades, and expanding business empire.
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+5.0
Cave Story+
Strong progression through weapon upgrades, health increases, and story advancement.
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+5.0
Killing Floor 2
Strong progression system with leveling, unlocking skills, and acquiring weapons and cosmetics.
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