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Mind
Strong progression through unlocking parts, upgrades, and permanent meta currency; builds evolve over runs.
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+4.0
Movies Tycoon
Clear progression through unlocking buildings, upgrading staff, and producing better movies.
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+4.0
Niffelheim
Strong focus on acquiring resources, crafting better gear, upgrading base and skills.
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+4.0
Orake Classic
Strong focus on leveling skills, acquiring gear, and completing quests.
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+4.0
Paranautical Activity: Deluxe Atonement Edition
Players collect items, upgrades, and unlock characters and modes through achievements and gameplay.
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+4.0
Pinball Storm: Lokanta
Strong roguelike progression with unlockable marbles, upgrades, and permanent enhancements.
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+4.0
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands™
Players collect experience points to upgrade abilities and unlock new powers.
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+4.0
Race for Tuning
Strong emphasis on earning money, upgrading cars, and unlocking parts to advance.
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+4.0
Racine
Strong emphasis on accumulating permanent stat boosts and unlocking cards and relics over runs.
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+4.0
Railroad Corporation 2
Players accumulate resources, upgrades, research, and expand their railroad empire progressively.
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+4.0
Rec Center Tycoon - Management Simulator
Players unlock new equipment and research, expanding and upgrading their rec center.
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+5.0
Rencounter
Strong progression through acquiring loot, upgrading equipment, and developing character stats and talents.
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+4.0
ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8 REMAKE
Strong emphasis on accumulating skills, items, relationships, and territorial control.
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+4.0
Satellite Reign
Strong progression through acquiring money, research, gear, and agent upgrades.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Railroads!
Progression through unlocking better trains, upgrading stations, and expanding networks.
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+4.0
Soulfire
Progression through acquiring weapons, upgrades, and cosmetics; ranked ladder progression present.
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+4.0
Spirit of the Island
Progression through skill leveling, crafting better gear, unlocking new islands and buildings is central.
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+4.0
STAR OCEAN™ - THE LAST HOPE -™ 4K & Full HD Remaster
Strong emphasis on leveling, item acquisition, skill upgrades, and unlocking character endings.
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+4.0
Steel Artery: Train City Builder
Clear progression through research, train upgrades, and resource chain expansion.
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+4.0
Tank Squad
Players accumulate tanks, upgrades, and resources, and manage their company over missions.
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+5.0
The Sims 2
Strong progression through career advancement, skill development, aspiration fulfillment, and item acquisition.
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+4.0
Transport Fever 3
Players accumulate vehicles, upgrades, and expand their transport empire over time.
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+5.0
Tribal Wars
Strong emphasis on accumulating villages, troops, and upgrades over time.
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+4.0
Truck & Logistics Simulator
Clear progression through earning money, buying vehicles, and unlocking new cargo types.
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