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A Hat in Time cover artvsDead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball cover art

A Hat in TimevsDead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

A Hat in Time leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
A Hat in TimeDead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball leans harder on reads: Versus humans adds light shot prediction

Variance1 vs 2

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball leans harder on variance: Partner mood and gift systems behave semi-randomly

Optimization3 vs 3

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball