level grinding
Experience point accumulation
Level grinding is the practice in video games of repeatedly performing routine tasks—killing enemies, completing minor quests—to accumulate experience points and raise a character's level.
The process is often tedious but necessary to survive harder content: I spent three hours grinding levels before the boss fight.
Sometimes shortened to just grinding.
- farmingCultivating land for food
- mobsChaotic, lawless gatherings
- respawnReappear after dying digitally
- dungeonSubterranean prison chamber
- statsNumerical information, abbreviated
hit points · experience · skill tree · boss · loot · rare drops · repetition · tedious · random encounters · skills · endgame · quests · side quests · JRPG · health bar · spawn points · overworld · turn-based combat
- RPGsDungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy, Skyrim, GM, Baldur's Gate
- strategy gameschess, strategy, checkers, go, Go
- random battlessurprise attack, preemptive strike, battle
- engagement hooksSkinner box, dopamine hits, near misses, loot boxes, gacha
- gaming marathonsspeedrun, charity stream, endurance run, all-nighter
level grindingspeedrunning
Completing games fastest possible
story mode · critical path · linear progression · muscle memory · campaign mode
level, levels, leveled, leveling, leveler, grind, grinds, ground, grinding