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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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+5.0
Dungreed
Strong meta-progression through leveling, unlocking items, NPCs, and skills.
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+5.0
Football Manager 2024
Strong emphasis on career progression, player development, and club growth over multiple seasons.
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+5.0
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga
Strong emphasis on collecting characters, upgrades, kyber bricks, and unlocking content.
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+5.0
Mad Games Tycoon 2
Strong focus on accumulating resources, IPs, upgrades, and expanding company influence.
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+5.0
Mortal Sin
Strong meta-progression with unlockable classes, weapons, combos, and upgrades that accumulate over multiple runs.
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+5.0
Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo
Strong progression systems with upgrades, badges, skill trees, and collectible improvements.
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+5.0
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Strong progression through technology, culture, city development, and military power accumulation.
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+5.0
SnowRunner
Strong emphasis on unlocking vehicles, upgrades, and maps through completing tasks and earning experience.
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+5.0
Space Rangers HD: A War Apart
Strong emphasis on accumulating better ships, equipment, ranks, and resources throughout gameplay.
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+5.0
X-COM: UFO Defense
Strong progression through research, equipment upgrades, soldier ranks, and base expansion.
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+5.0
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity
Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, new moves, weapons, and unlocking characters, driving a clear sense of…
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+5.0
Barony
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, and character development through runs.
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+5.0
Big Ambitions
Strong emphasis on accumulating wealth, items, upgrades, and expanding business empire.
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+5.0
Cave Story+
Strong progression through weapon upgrades, health increases, and story advancement.
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+5.0
Killing Floor 2
Strong progression system with leveling, unlocking skills, and acquiring weapons and cosmetics.
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+5.0
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, land, and power throughout the game.
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+5.0
Shawarma Legend
Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, improving equipment, and advancing through the game.
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+5.0
Soulstone Survivors
Heavy meta progression with unlockable characters, skill trees, runes, weapons, and achievements.
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+5.0
Charlie Murder
Strong focus on accumulating experience, leveling up, unlocking characters, and collecting gear and relics.
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+5.0
Crypt Custodian
Strong progression through upgrades, abilities, collectibles, and story advancement.
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+5.0
Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten (DX edition)
Strong emphasis on accumulating experience, items, and upgrades to strengthen characters and advance.
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+5.0
Drova - Forsaken Kin
Strong sense of progression through acquiring gear, skills, and faction membership; rewarding power growth.
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+5.0
Dungeon Warfare
Strong progression system with trap upgrades, experience, gems, and unlockable content.
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+5.0
Software Inc.
Clear progression through company growth, software development, market share, and building expansion.
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