Progression

Strong emphasis on accumulating resources, technologies, and expanding influence to achieve victory.

Players accumulate crew, provisions, and plunder to improve raid strength and scoring potential.

Players accumulate gold, unlock new classes and items, and improve gear across runs.

Players accumulate resources, build structures, and unlock civilizations and upgrades, showing clear progression.

Progression through acquiring dragons, leveling them, and upgrading skills and items is central to gameplay.

Clear progression through research, resource acquisition, building upgrades, and unlocking islands.

Clear progression through acquiring buildings, employees, consoles, and game engines.

Players accumulate hunters, weapons, cosmetics, and upgrades through gameplay and battle passes.

Character leveling, skill trees, and loot collection provide clear progression and growth.

Players accumulate resources, upgrades, and territory, progressing through tech trees and political power.

Strong progression through tech cards, city growth, and victory points accumulation.

Players accumulate weapons, armor, upgrades, and research new technology to advance.

Strong progression through unlocking chips, skills, characters, and climbing ranked ladders.

Strong meta-progression system unlocking new characters, carriages, cards, and upgrades over time.

Strong progression through hero leveling, skill trees, army upgrades, and town development.

Strong emphasis on city growth, technology advancement, army recruitment, and territorial expansion.

Players accumulate tech, units, and upgrades, advancing through a tech tree and building armies.

Players accumulate technologies, resources, colonies, and ship upgrades, progressing their empire over time.

Progression through fleet building, ship upgrades, and missile customization.

Players accumulate experience, upgrades, and unlock characters; progression is a core gameplay element.

Strong progression through unlocking new buildings, research levels, and upgrading population tiers.

Strong progression through leveling up dungeon masters, unlocking monsters, traps, and artifacts.

Players accumulate cards, upgrades, and improve decks over time to progress against bosses.

Unlocks new cards, relics, classes, and difficulty levels through progression and repeated runs.