Progression

Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring upgrades, and collecting resources.

Strong emphasis on acquiring items, crafting upgrades, and improving survival capabilities.

Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring items, skills, and completing quests; progression is a core gameplay element.

Clear progression through unlocking items, sushi recipes, and improving store reputation.

Strong progression through item upgrades, unlocking perks, and ranked advancement.

Clear progression through levels, unlocking new buildings, leaders, and DLC content.

Strong emphasis on collecting badges, leveling up, acquiring new abilities, and unlocking story chapters.

Strong emphasis on leveling up, acquiring personas, improving stats, and unlocking social links and abilities.

Players collect coins, unlock characters, upgrades, and achievements, showing clear progression.

Strong emphasis on leveling, unlocking, and upgrading weapons and gear, though pay-to-win accelerates progression for…

Clear progression through unlocking new biomes, abilities, crafting recipes, and building upgrades.

Players accumulate ingredients, potions, upgrades, and relationship ranks to progress through the story and challenges.

Extensive character leveling, skill unlocking, item collection, and multiple endings reflect strong progression.

Players accumulate weapons, unlock emoticons, and complete achievements, showing clear progression.

Strong focus on accumulating wealth, upgrading trains, expanding networks, and acquiring companies.

Strong progression through unlocking cards, relics, star upgrades, and increasing difficulty levels.

Collecting Lums, unlocking characters, and progressing through levels provide a strong sense of advancement.

Strong meta-progression system with unlockable bonuses and upgrades that persist between runs.

Strong progression through unlocking and upgrading hydrojets, tricks, and characters.

Strong meta progression with unlocking new units, upgrades, and difficulty levels after runs.

Players accumulate money, upgrades, decorations, and unlock story content as they progress.

Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, unlocking abilities, and improving stats across runs.

Strong meta-progression system with character leveling, unlocks, and upgrades driving long-term advancement.

Strong progression through item acquisition, upgrades, and dungeon completion.