Progression

Strong focus on collecting Pokémon, earning badges, leveling up, and acquiring items and upgrades.

Players accumulate items, upgrades, and abilities, progressing through the story and challenges.

Strong progression through hero leveling, equipment upgrades, city development, and tech unlocks

Strong meta progression system with skill trees, unlocking classes, and gear upgrades driving advancement.

Progression through collecting bananas and mastering levels, though no complex item upgrades.

Strong progression through crafting, faction leveling, and market trading to acquire better parts and vehicles.

Strong progression through character leveling, equipment crafting, and unlocking new classes and abilities.

Players accumulate items, craft ammo and healing items, and unlock new floors and upgrades.

Players collect items, upgrade weapons, unlock skills, and enhance stats, showing clear progression and growth.

Players accumulate ranks, unlock characters, upgrade weapons, and earn cosmetic items through gameplay.

Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, artifacts, and leveling characters and camp facilities.

Strong emphasis on accumulating resources, upgrading technologies, and expanding territory.

Strong progression through unlocking and upgrading units, accumulating currency and items.

Clear progression through levels, skill trees, equipment upgrades, and story advancement.

Players accumulate weapons, mods, and ranks through gameplay and crafting; progression is a key motivator.

Players collect items (selfburns, blackboxes) and unlock new levels and story content.

Clear progression through unlocking items, expanding café space, and upgrading facilities.

Clear progression through research, unlocking technologies, vehicles, and factory expansions.

Strong emphasis on accumulating resources, items, upgrades, and advancing cultivation levels.

Players accumulate items, upgrades, and colony improvements as core gameplay.

Clear progression through technology unlocks, building upgrades, and population growth.

Players accumulate upgrades, affection points, and unlock new abilities and endings.

Players collect weapons, upgrades, and permanent stat boosts; episodic content adds to progression

Strong emphasis on accumulating resources, upgrading buildings, and expanding territory.