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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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+4.0
Card-en-Ciel
Strong meta-progression system with upgrades, unlocks, and increasing difficulty levels.
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+4.0
Colt Canyon
Unlocks of characters, weapons, and upgrades provide clear progression incentives.
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+4.0
Dicefolk
Strong progression through unlocking chimeras, equipment, and trial modes with increasing difficulty.
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+4.0
Dustland Delivery
Strong focus on acquiring items, upgrades, and expanding settlements.
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+4.0
Embr
Players accumulate money, unlock tools, upgrades, and cosmetics to improve gameplay and personalization.
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+4.0
Euro Truck Simulator
Players accumulate money, trucks, licenses, and unlock new areas, showing clear progression.
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+4.0
First Racer
Clear progression system with currency, car unlocks, and upgrades motivates players to advance.
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+4.0
Gas Guzzlers Extreme
Players accumulate money, cars, upgrades, and unlock new content throughout the campaign.
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+4.0
Goblin Sushi
Strong progression through unlockable upgrades, perks, and new recipes that enhance gameplay each run.
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+4.0
Gunk
Clear progression through upgrades and leveling that enhance player power and abilities.
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+4.0
Halcyon Days at Taoyuan
Players accumulate items, upgrades, and unlock recipes; contribution system replaces traditional currency.
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+4.0
HELLCARD
Strong meta-progression with unlockable cards, artifacts, and character upgrades that persist between runs.
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+4.0
High School Odyssey
Clear progression through stats, relationships, achievements, and story milestones.
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+4.0
How a Retired Strategist Saved the Country
Clear progression through unlocking skill trees, upgrading buildings, and expanding territory.
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+4.0
Intake
Unlockable power-ups, music tracks, and modes provide a sense of advancement and accumulation.
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+4.0
Joyquarium
Clear progression through unlocking fish species, tanks, and decorations, with accumulation of in-game currency and…
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+4.0
Knights of Pen and Paper 2
Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring items, unlocking classes, and crafting to enhance party power.
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+4.0
Lost Nova
Clear progression through resource collection, upgrades, and story advancement.
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+4.0
Luma Island
Clear progression through professions, tool upgrades, and unlocking new areas.
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+4.0
MISHA
Clear progression through collecting and unlocking increasingly rare cosmetic items.
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+4.0
Mosaic of the Strange
Players accumulate solved puzzles, unlock story elements, and progress through locations and difficulty levels.
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+4.0
Nexomon
Strong focus on leveling up, evolving, collecting Nexomon, and completing achievements.
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+4.0
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD
Players accumulate money, upgrades, and ammo types to improve their bounty hunting capabilities.
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+4.0
OHV
Players accumulate vehicle parts, upgrades, and complete tasks to progress; clear sense of advancement.
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