Progression

Collecting weapons, items, and unlocking mutators provide a sense of advancement.

Leveling classes, acquiring gear, crafting, and unlocking abilities provide clear progression.

Strong focus on acquiring parts, upgrading ships, and improving status through salvaging and trading.

Strong emphasis on accumulating better gear, leveling characters, and unlocking new content.

Players accumulate weapons, armor, and upgrades; level up and improve stats.

Players unlock new technologies, robots, recipes, and planets as they progress.

Strong focus on accumulating items, upgrading gear, leveling pets, and unlocking skills.

Players accumulate experience, skill points, and unlock customization items through gameplay.

Strong emphasis on collecting, upgrading, and crafting runes to improve decks and power.

Strong progression through character leveling, card upgrades, and train expansion.

Strong progression through career mode, player collection, team upgrades, and unlocking content.

Players accumulate weapons, gadgets, and skill upgrades as they advance through the story.

Strong emphasis on leveling characters, acquiring items, upgrading equipment, and unlocking new abilities.

Strong meta-progression with unlockable weapons, blueprints, and skill trees driving advancement.

Clear progression through research, product launches, political influence, and agenda points toward victory.

Clear progression via tiers, HQ upgrades, artifacts, and cosmetic unlocks.

Players collect currency and unlock multiple upgrades and skills, progressing character abilities and tools.

Players accumulate resources, technologies, military units, and territorial control over time.

Strong meta progression with permanent upgrades and in-run build advancement.

Strong emphasis on accumulating skills, items, and unlocking endings

Strong focus on accumulating resources, upgrading buildings, and advancing through missions.

Strong progression through acquiring items, upgrading store, vehicles, and expanding business.

Strong RPG elements with character upgrades, skill points, and unlocking special abilities.

Strong emphasis on accumulating parts, upgrades, and research to improve mech capabilities.