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Progression
Accumulating items or upgrades
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+4.0
Stacklands
Strong emphasis on unlocking cards, crafting recipes, and expanding the village.
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+4.0
SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER
Players accumulate weapons, upgrades, and unlock new worlds and challenges.
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+5.0
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Strong progression through collecting stars, unlocking new levels, and acquiring power-ups.
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+5.0
Tennis Elbow 4
Career mode features extensive progression through ranking, skill upgrades, and tournament achievements.
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+4.0
The Great Rebellion
Strong progression system with permanent upgrades, unlocks, and in-run item acquisition.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Strong progression through acquiring items, upgrades, new abilities, and unlocking new areas.
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+5.0
The Planet Crafter
Clear and satisfying progression through unlocking items, upgrades, and terraforming milestones.
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+4.0
The Roottrees are Dead
Players accumulate knowledge, unlock family members, and complete the family tree as a form of progression.
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+5.0
Tiny Rogues
Strong meta progression system with unlockable characters, permanent perks, and in-run upgrades.
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+4.0
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Strong emphasis on accumulating experience, upgrading skills and weapons, and collecting items.
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+5.0
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia
Strong focus on leveling up, acquiring new skills, fusing characters, and collecting items.
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+4.0
Tower of Mask
Character progression through leveling, equipment upgrades, and inventory expansion.
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+5.0
Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrades, and character growth throughout the game.
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+5.0
Turing Complete
Players accumulate increasingly complex components and capabilities, progressing from gates to full CPUs.
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+4.0
Twin Shot Deluxe
Players accumulate coins, unlock hats, skins, and power-ups, and progress through increasingly challenging levels.
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+5.0
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
Strong meta-progression with unlocking characters, cards, upgrades, and evolving decks.
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+4.0
WAR RATS: The Rat em Up
Strong emphasis on collecting currency, upgrading weapons, unlocking blueprints, and advancing through levels.
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+4.0
Waterpark Simulator
Clear progression through star ratings, upgrades, and park expansion.
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+5.0
WitchSpring R
Strong emphasis on accumulating items, upgrading weapons, and character stat growth.
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+5.0
Withering Realms
Strong focus on acquiring weapons, upgrades, and leveling up character parts; build progression is central.
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+5.0
Withering Rooms
Strong progression system with item acquisition, leveling, and build development over multiple runs.
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+5.0
AETHUS
Strong sense of progression through unlocking new tools, upgrades, and story milestones.
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+5.0
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
Strong emphasis on resource gathering, technology upgrades, and unit progression.
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+5.0
ASTLIBRA Revision
Extensive item collection, equipment mastery, and character upgrades drive progression.
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