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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--season-journey
type: mechanic
id: rpg-grind--season-journey
lang: en
title: Seasonal progression journey
summary: >-
  Actions during a season advance a sequence of goals and rewards. The next
  milestone and the requirements for progress remain visible.
updatedAt: '2026-10-21'
status: active
url: 'https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--season-journey/'
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  https://gamemechanics.pro/content/knowledge/en/mechanic/rpg-grind--season-journey.md
aliases:
  - Season progression track
tags:
  - RPG grinding
  - Collections and metaprogression
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  - source-0a031a39aeeef0d8
sources:
  - id: source-0a031a39aeeef0d8
    title: Deep Rock Galactic
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/'
    verifiedAt: null
relations: []
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  - catalogId: rpg-grind
    id: season-journey
    title: RPG grinding
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supersededBy: []
attributes:
  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-21'
    title: Season progression track
    description: >-
      Actions during a season advance a sequence of goals and rewards. The next
      milestone and the requirements for progress remain visible.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/drg-season-rewards.webp
      width: 1440
      height: 810
      game: Deep Rock Galactic
      sourceUrl: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/'
      originalUrl: >-
        https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/548430/16b75c6d2a231b45b56328abe335fde8cee9ebe4/ss_16b75c6d2a231b45b56328abe335fde8cee9ebe4.1920x1080.jpg?t=1792497307
      credit: Ghost Ship Games / Coffee Stain Publishing
      rights: © Ghost Ship Games / Coffee Stain Publishing. All rights reserved.
      caption: Season challenges and reward track
      alt: >-
        Deep Rock Galactic: the season panel shows challenges, current level 3
        and a sequence of upcoming rewards.
      markers:
        - x: 10
          'y': 83
          label: Current level and progress
        - x: 51
          'y': 83
          label: Upcoming reward track
    tips:
      - Place a milestone’s requirement beside its reward.
      - Explain what happens to unfinished progress when the season ends.
    examples:
      - title: Deep Rock Galactic
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/'
endsAt: null
provenance: >-
  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
license: CC-BY-4.0
codeLicense: MIT
attribution: gamemechanics.pro contributors
catalogKey: catalog/rpg-grind
---
# Seasonal progression journey

id: rpg-grind--season-journey
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--season-journey
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--season-journey/

Actions during a season advance a sequence of goals and rewards. The next milestone and the requirements for progress remain visible.

## At a glance

![Deep Rock Galactic: the season panel shows challenges, current level 3 and a sequence of upcoming rewards.](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/drg-season-rewards.webp)

[Deep Rock Galactic](https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/) · © Ghost Ship Games / Coffee Stain Publishing. All rights reserved.

1. Current level and progress
2. Upcoming reward track

- Place a milestone’s requirement beside its reward.
- Explain what happens to unfinished progress when the season ends.

- [Deep Rock Galactic](https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/)

## How it works

A set of repeated and one-off tasks organizes a season into a sequence of goals.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="season-journey-options"></a>

- Complete chapters of seasonal goals. <a id="season-journey-option-1"></a>
- Accumulate seasonal experience on a reward track. <a id="season-journey-option-2"></a>
- Choose seasonal goals matching a preferred play style. <a id="season-journey-option-3"></a>

## Design example

A seasonal journal asks players to learn new crafting, clear trials and earn a commemorative appearance.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Deep Rock Galactic](https://store.steampowered.com/app/548430/) (id: source-0a031a39aeeef0d8)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors