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Circle of Blood cover artvsHatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star cover art

Circle of BloodvsHatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star

Circle of Blood leans Optimization (Light / Casual); Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star leans Optimization (Light / Casual).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Circle of BloodHatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Circle of Blood leans harder on execution: no physical skill, point-and-click

Reads0 vs 1

Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star leans harder on reads: Characters are scripted, not adaptive

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 3

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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Circle of Blood

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Hatoful Boyfriend: Holiday Star