You have 4 kinds of modes which you use, to discover, gather and extract resources or take coins from pins on a map. The upgrades you buy in a round are used to make all these processes faster and more efficient.

The permanent upgrades allow you to get higher scores in each run by increasing multipliers, decreasing downtime or increasing the number of pins.

Try to optimize your strategy to get the most amount of XP in a run, or just simply relax.