Progression

Strong emphasis on researching technologies, producing equipment, and upgrading forces.

Strong emphasis on unlocking ships, weapons, pilots, and upgrades to enhance power and abilities.

Career mode involves unlocking upgrades, improving cars, and advancing through ranks.

Strong emphasis on leveling, skill unlocking, gear upgrading, and base building progression.

Strong meta-progression system with unlocking upgrades, new characters, and skills between runs.

Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring gear, base upgrades, and unlocking new abilities.

Players progress through levels, unlock bonus stages, and collect stars as achievements.

Players accumulate upgrades, new ships, and resources to strengthen their fleets and advance.

Players progress by unlocking new areas, acquiring new abilities, and solving puzzles to advance the story.

Players accumulate items, unlock ships, weapons, and abilities through faction progression and gameplay.

Players accumulate upgrades, skills, and inventory to grow their business and capabilities.

Leveling, mastery unlocking, item collection, and village rank systems provide strong progression incentives.

Strong emphasis on acquiring better ships, weapons, and skills to advance.

Strong sense of progression through crafting, base building, and upgrading gear

Progression through item acquisition, skills, and blueprints is core to gameplay

Strong focus on leveling up characters, acquiring gear, and upgrading the outpost.

Strong meta-progression through unlocking skills, spirits, and character builds across runs.

Players unlock new traps and upgrade them within levels, progressing through increasingly difficult stages.

Equipment, talismans, and leveling provide ongoing progression and power accumulation

Clear progression through crafting better tools, building larger structures, and expanding village capabilities.

Clear progression through leveling, talent points, crafting research, and gear upgrades.

Strong progression through card collection, deck building, leveling factions, and unlocking content.

Strong progression through military rank, troop upgrades, economic development, and territorial expansion.

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