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Candy Crush Jelly SagavsCitizen Sleeper

Candy Crush Jelly Saga leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Citizen Sleeper leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Candy Crush Jelly SagaCitizen Sleeper

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Candy Crush Jelly Saga leans harder on execution: Tapping and swapping tiles needs no physical skill

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Citizen Sleeper leans harder on optimization: Action allocation and clock management dominate.

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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