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Ozymandias: Bronze Age Empire Sim
Players accumulate resources, upgrades, and crowns to achieve victory; progression is central to gameplay.
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Populous™: The Beginning
Progression through unlocking spells, units, and advancing campaign levels is a core motivator.
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+4.0
Primal Planet
Strong progression through leveling, skill unlocking, crafting, and village development.
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+4.0
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube
Progression through levels, unlocking new cube types and worlds, and collecting hidden items.
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+4.0
Quake 4
Players collect weapons, ammo, and upgrades; campaign progression is structured and rewarding.
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+4.0
Ratopia
Strong focus on accumulating resources, upgrades, and expanding the colony.
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+4.0
Ratropolis
Players unlock new cards, leaders, and advisors, and progress through waves and ascension levels.
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+4.0
Regiments
Players accumulate upgrades, new units, and resources across operations and campaigns, enhancing their forces.
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+4.0
Rise of the Third Power
Clear progression through leveling, talent upgrades, crafting, and gear enhancement.
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+4.0
Sang-Froid - Tales of Werewolves
Strong emphasis on accumulating experience, items, and upgrades to improve effectiveness.
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+4.0
Serious Sam 3: BFE
Players accumulate weapons, ammo, and upgrades; unlocking new difficulties and DLC content.
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+4.0
Shadow Corridor 2 雨ノ四葩
Players collect magatamas, souls, and unlock karuta cards and items to enhance future runs.
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+4.0
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition
Players collect items, upgrades, and unlock new abilities to advance through the game.
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+4.0
Slow living with Princess
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrading shop, skills, and equipment to advance.
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+4.0
Spellbound & Shelved
Strong focus on accumulating upgrades, unlocking new areas, and improving workforce capabilities.
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+4.0
STAR WARS™ Battlefront™ II
Players unlock weapons, abilities, and cosmetics through gameplay milestones and experience.
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+4.0
Steredenn: Binary Stars
Players accumulate weapons, upgrades, and score through runs, with meaningful progression between stages.
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+4.0
Stirring Abyss
Players accumulate resources, upgrade submarine, develop characters, and unlock new abilities and mutations.
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+4.0
Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return
Players accumulate upgrades, affection points, and unlock new abilities and endings.
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+4.0
Sword of the Stars: Complete Collection
Players accumulate technologies, ship upgrades, and territorial control throughout the game.
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+4.0
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
Players collect keys, clues, and items to unlock new areas and advance the story.
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+4.0
The Last Plague: Blight
Players accumulate resources, craft upgrades, and build bases to advance survival capabilities
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Time Rifters
Weapon upgrades and gold accumulation provide clear progression and power growth.
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+4.0
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!
Character leveling, unlockables, and item collection provide clear progression.
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