Progression

Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, items, achievements, and completing multiple campaign percentages.

Strong emphasis on accumulating skills, items, and character upgrades across generations.

Strong emphasis on accumulating experience, requisition points, new skills, and equipment to enhance squad power.

Strong meta-progression with unlocking cards, summoners, and artifacts across runs.

Clear progression through unlocking elements, technologies, and building increasingly complex machines.

Strong meta progression with unlocking new decks, treasures, and levels driving advancement.

Strong emphasis on acquiring new skills, upgrades, and items; leveling up and building combos are core to gameplay.

Core gameplay revolves around collecting currency and upgrading rocket parts to progress further.

Strong focus on accumulating items, upgrades, contracts, and increasing popularity.

Strong emphasis on accumulating upgrades, unlocking items, and character development.

Strong progression through unlocking ships, captains, skills, and accumulating wealth and experience.

Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, skills, and character power through runs.

Strong emphasis on accumulating relics, upgrades, and meta progression to enhance future runs.

Strong focus on acquiring weapons, upgrades, and leveling up character parts; build progression is central.

Central motivation is accumulating upgrades, loot, and skill points to enhance ships and builds.

Strong focus on accumulating money, upgrades, properties, and unlocking new mechanics and story content.

Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, and experience to enhance characters and unlock content.

Strong emphasis on accumulating cards, equipment, and upgrades to enhance characters.

Strong emphasis on gaining equipment, skills, and leveling up characters throughout the game.

Strong focus on accumulating upgrades, skill tree unlocks, and prestige bonuses to increase power.

Strong progression through unlocking characters, biomes, cards, relics, and meta upgrades.

Core gameplay loop centers on acquiring and upgrading items, skills, and mercs.

Core gameplay revolves around accumulating upgrades, achievements, and increasing stats.

Strong progression through unlocking new products, upgrades, and expanding to new store locations.