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BattleBlock Theater cover artvsUnruly Heroes cover art

BattleBlock TheatervsUnruly Heroes

BattleBlock Theater leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Unruly Heroes leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
BattleBlock TheaterUnruly Heroes

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Unruly Heroes leans harder on execution: Acrobatic platforming and combat timing lead throughout

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 3

BattleBlock Theater leans harder on optimization: Gem routes and weapon picks 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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