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Progress Game

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

Experience Progress in its purest form as an Idle-Game!

What works

  • Free to play
  • Simple and accessible mechanics
  • Idle gameplay suitable for casual play
  • Progression system with gear upgrades and mastery
  • Developer actively updating (at least initially)

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited content and short gameplay
  • Crude graphics and ui issues
  • Repetitive grinding and upgrade mechanics
  • Lack of multiplayer or social features
  • Some technical bugs and crashes reported

What to play next

Top picks

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Less idle-friendly

Games that feels like Progress Game but with less of an idle filler feel

Less violent

Games that feels like Progress Game but with less combat and destruction

More leadership-focused

Games that feels like Progress Game but with more leadership over others

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Progress Game. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Progress Game. These titles are not in What to play next.

Progress Game: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Story, Exploration, Creativity, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Thrill.

Last update: 23/08/2026