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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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+4.0
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
Players accumulate experience, unlock new moves, fatalities, and characters, showing clear progression.
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+4.0
Natural Selection 2
In-game progression through upgrades, resource control, and evolving alien lifeforms.
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+4.0
NHL 26
Strong emphasis on player and team progression through career mode, Ultimate Team, and skill upgrades.
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+4.0
Omega Strikers
Players accumulate character levels, unlock cosmetics, and progress through ranked ladders; in-match item awakenings…
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+4.0
Pokémon Scarlet
Progression through collecting badges, defeating bosses, and acquiring items is central to gameplay.
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+4.0
POLYBIUS
Players accumulate shields, power-ups, and advance through levels, showing clear progression.
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+4.0
Roadside Research
Players accumulate upgrades, unlock new items and expand their gas station and alien abilities.
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+4.0
Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Colonization
Strong focus on accumulating resources, upgrading colonies, recruiting settlers, and advancing towards independence.
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+4.0
Sniper Elite 5
Players accumulate weapons, upgrades, skills, and unlockables through gameplay and challenges.
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+4.0
Snow Bros.
Players accumulate power-ups, upgrades, and advance through levels and bosses, reflecting clear progression.
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+4.0
Songs of Conquest
Strong progression through hero leveling, research, town building, and unit upgrades.
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+4.0
Space Haven
Players accumulate resources, research technologies, and upgrade ships and crew capabilities.
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+4.0
Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions
Strong progression system with upgrades, unlockable moves, and challenges driving advancement.
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+4.0
Super Drift Blade
Features layered progression with upgrades, unlocking shortcuts, and collecting items to enhance runs.
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+4.0
Teamfight Manager
Players accumulate upgrades, unlock champions, and progress through leagues and seasons.
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+4.0
True Crime: Streets of LA
Strong emphasis on earning badges and reward points to unlock upgrades and new abilities.
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+4.0
Void Sols
Clear progression through weapon upgrades, stat allocation, and item acquisition; builds evolve over time.
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+4.0
Wasteland Bites
Players accumulate upgrades and unlock new areas, improving capabilities and advancing through the game.
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+4.0
Well Dweller
Collecting trinkets, upgrades, and abilities drives progression and power growth.
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+4.0
1bitHeart
Progression is tied to accumulating friends, items, and unlocking multiple endings.
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+4.0
60 Parsecs!
Progression through acquiring items, crafting upgrades, and unlocking multiple endings.
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+4.0
Ale Abbey - Monastery Brewery Tycoon
Clear progression through research, monastery upgrades, unlocking new beer types, and expanding the abbey.
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+4.0
Backrooms Cleanup Crew
Players accumulate upgrades, unlock cosmetics, and improve ratings, showing clear progression.
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+4.0
Barn Finders: The Pilot
Players accumulate items, upgrade shops, and unlock new tools and locations, showing clear progression.
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