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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
Hotel Renovator
Players accumulate items, unlock furniture sets, and improve hotel star ratings, showing clear progression and upgrades.
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+4.0
How to Build a Magnificent Kingdom
Heavy emphasis on accumulating resources, upgrading equipment, unlocking skills, and advancing story.
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+4.0
HumanitZ
Players accumulate items, upgrades, skills, and build bases as part of survival progression.
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+4.0
Kingpin — Life of Crime
Strong emphasis on accumulating money, weapons, upgrades, and recruiting allies to increase power.
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+4.0
Lunacid - Tears of the Moon
Players collect weapons, spells, and upgrades, progressing through the story and dungeons.
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+4.0
Mana Spark
Players accumulate items, upgrades, and unlock new characters and abilities through meta progression.
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+4.0
Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition
Strong emphasis on acquiring weapons, armor, upgrades, and completing missions to advance.
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+4.0
Mirror of Heaven
Strong emphasis on metaprogression, unlocking skills, weapons, and upgrades through repeated playthroughs.
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+4.0
Narita Boy
Players accumulate new combat abilities and upgrades; story progression unlocks new areas.
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+4.0
NEODUEL: Backpack Monsters
Strong progression through collecting, fusing, and evolving monsters, as well as unlocking passive perks and ranking up.
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+4.0
ONRAID
Strong progression through unlocking characters, crafting gear, and leveling up, though grind and RNG can slow…
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+4.0
Per Aspera
Strong focus on accumulating resources, research, and upgrades to advance terraforming and colony.
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+4.0
Piggy Poggy Pog
Players collect items (acorns), unlock abilities, and progress through increasingly difficult levels.
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+4.0
Pumpkin Days
Game features item collection, upgrades, and unlocking new content as core motivators.
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+4.0
Sengoku Dynasty
Strong emphasis on accumulating resources, upgrading tools, buildings, and unlocking new technologies and regions.
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+4.0
Soccer Manager 2026
Strong emphasis on player development, transfers, and club upgrades as core gameplay elements.
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+4.0
SpellForce 3 Versus Edition
Hero leveling, skill upgrades, and resource accumulation provide clear progression systems.
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+4.0
Starsand Island
Players accumulate items, upgrades, skills, and unlock new areas and features progressively.
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+4.0
Stygian: Outer Gods
Players accumulate items, weapons, upgrades, and skill cards, progressing through the story and character development.
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+4.0
Supermarket & Internet Cafe Simulator
Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, items, and expanding business capabilities.
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+4.0
Sword Art Online Re: Hollow Fragment
Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring weapons and armor, unlocking skills, and completing achievements.
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+4.0
Tallowmere 2: Curse of the Kittens
Players accumulate weapons, upgrades, and kitten-based buffs to grow stronger through runs.
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+4.0
The Surge 2
Strong emphasis on acquiring and upgrading weapons, armor, and implants.
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+4.0
Utawarerumono: Past and Present Rediscovered
Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring new weapons, skills, and upgrades throughout the game.
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