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Valfaris: Mecha Therion
Strong progression through weapon upgrades, modules, and unlocking secrets.
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Victoria II
Strong focus on accumulating industrial power, military strength, prestige, and territorial expansion.
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+4.0
Virtua Unlimited Project
Players collect items, upgrades, cards, and extenders to enhance abilities and progress through the game.
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+4.0
Wars and Warriors: Joan of Arc
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrading characters, and recruiting troops.
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Wild Animal Sports Day
Progression through accumulating points, unlocking movies, and dethroning King Croc provides a clear sense of…
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AngerForce: Reloaded
Strong progression system with permanent upgrades, unlockable skills, and character growth incentivizes advancement.
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+4.0
Animal Shelter: Prologue
Players accumulate upgrades, expand shelter, and progress through adoption and care tasks.
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+5.0
Anode Heart
Strong emphasis on leveling, rebooting, breeding, and collecting upgrades and cards
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+4.0
Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky DX
Strong emphasis on item and equipment synthesis, character leveling, and unlocking story content.
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Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian
Strong emphasis on unlocking recipes, upgrading items, leveling town/shop, and character skill trees.
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+5.0
Avernum: Escape From the Pit
Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring items, and improving characters.
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Barony
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, and character development through runs.
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+4.0
Beach Buggy Racing 2: Island Adventure
Strong progression system with unlocking cars, drivers, upgrades, and achievements through gameplay.
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+4.0
Black Jacket
Meta progression and unlocks provide a sense of advancement and accumulation.
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+5.0
Bloodborne
Strong progression through collecting Blood Echoes, leveling up, and upgrading weapons and stats.
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+4.0
Book of Demons
Strong progression through card collection, upgrades, leveling, and unlocking new classes and difficulties.
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+5.0
BRAVELY DEFAULT FLYING FAIRY HD Remaster
Strong emphasis on leveling, job mastery, item collection, and unlocking abilities drives progression.
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+4.0
Car Mechanic Simulator 2018
Clear progression through leveling, unlocking tools, expanding garage, and acquiring cars.
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+4.0
Choo-Choo Charles
Strong focus on collecting scrap, upgrading train stats, and unlocking weapons.
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+4.0
City Bus Manager
Strong progression through acquiring buses, expanding routes, and upgrading facilities.
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Codename: Panzers, Phase One
Unit upgrades, experience, and resource management between missions provide clear progression.
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+5.0
Cosmodread
Strong progression through unlocking blueprints, modifiers, and improved equipment across runs.
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+5.0
CounterAttack: Uprising
Strong progression through unlocking and equipping hundreds of attachments and upgrades.
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+4.0
Crash Drive 3
Strong emphasis on earning money, unlocking and upgrading vehicles, and advancing through maps.
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