Upgrade Games: Level Up Your Gear, Weapons and Business

Every game here starts you off weak — a blunt pickaxe, a single lemonade stand, a fighter who runs out of breath — and lets you spend what you earn on getting stronger. That loop ties together more than twenty titles, from idle clickers and business sims to racing, boxing and survival action.

If you like running a business, try Food Empire: you sell lemonade, pizza and ice cream, then widen the menu as the money comes in. PrintMaster 3D: Printing Tycoon begins with one printer and grows into a workshop full of new machines and materials, while Gas Station 24: Simulator turns a small fuel stop into a modern station. Prefer a fight? In PunchBox 3D you raise your boxer's strength, speed, stamina and defense between bouts, and Crazy Survival drops you in with low health and a slow weapon that soon gets much better.

For a slower pace there's Block Craft, stripped down to digging blocks and upgrading tools, and Voxel Crusher with its hundred models to feed into an industrial shredder. Speed fans can head to Drag Race in the Flow, grab cash between lanes of traffic and trade up to faster cars.