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Banished cover artvsTransport Fever 2 cover art

BanishedvsTransport Fever 2

Banished leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Transport Fever 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
BanishedTransport Fever 2

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 2

Transport Fever 2 leans harder on execution: Track and route laying requires some careful placement precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 2

Banished leans harder on variance: weather, disease events

Optimization9 vs 9

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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Transport Fever 2