Progression

Strong focus on acquiring items, upgrading skills, and completing quests to advance.

Players collect souls to unlock new characters and gain items; character quests add progression layers.

Legacy campaign involves accumulating buildings, upgrades, and victory points that carry over between games.

Strong emphasis on character leveling, unlocking moves, collecting items, and completing quests.

Players accumulate reputation, affection points, unlock dates, and collect outfits and achievements.

Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, unlocking monsters, and prestige mechanics.

Players accumulate items, unlock characters, and gain upgrades across runs, supporting a sense of progression.

Strong progression through unlocking characters, acquiring upgrades, and improving abilities.

Players progressively unlock mosaic sections and achievements, accumulating visual and informational rewards.

Unlocking new classes, weapons, skills, and companions drives player progression across runs

Strong emphasis on accumulating money, prestige points, skills, and upgrades.

Strong meta progression system with unlockable characters, weapons, and upgrades motivates continued play.

Strong progression through unlocking equipment, skills, and buffs that persist across runs.

Players accumulate prestige points to buy and upgrade units, and units gain experience to improve over campaigns.

Strong emphasis on leveling characters, unlocking skills, upgrading weapons, and collecting items.

Strong sense of progression through leveling, unlocking abilities, upgrading towns, and completing quests.

Strong emphasis on accumulating experience, leveling units, acquiring artifacts, and unlocking abilities.

Strong focus on accumulating gold and upgrading stats to progress through levels and achievements.

Career mode features rank advancement, upgrades, and crew development.

Strong meta progression system with permanent upgrades and unlocking new characters and skills.

Players accumulate resources, skills, buildings, and influence over settlements.

Strong emphasis on acquiring weapons, upgrades, and unlocking new abilities through repeated runs.

Strong progression through unlocking upgrades, new floors, staff types, and contracts.

Players accumulate upgrades, abilities, and items to progress through the game.