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Blue Prince cover artvsCitizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector cover art

Blue PrincevsCitizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Blue Prince leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Blue PrinceCitizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Blue Prince leans harder on execution: Placing rooms and navigating them needs no dexterity

Reads0 vs 1

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector leans harder on reads: NPCs follow branching scripts.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 8

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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