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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden cover artvsRed Dead Redemption 2 cover art

Banishers: Ghosts of New EdenvsRed Dead Redemption 2

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Red Dead Redemption 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Banishers: Ghosts of New EdenRed Dead Redemption 2

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Red Dead Redemption 2 leans harder on variance: Some hunting and weather randomness, lightly hidden.

Optimization5 vs 4

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden leans harder on optimization: Gear upgrades, character swapping and decision routes are learnable

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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Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

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Red Dead Redemption 2