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Baseball Mogul cover artvsSurviving Mars cover art

Baseball MogulvsSurviving Mars

Baseball Mogul leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Surviving Mars leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Baseball Mogul leans harder on reads: no adaptive opposing agent, just simulation

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Baseball Mogul

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Surviving Mars