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Citizen Sleeper cover artvsCurious Expedition 2 cover art

Citizen SleepervsCurious Expedition 2

Citizen Sleeper leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Curious Expedition 2 leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION0 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Citizen SleeperCurious Expedition 2

Axis by axis

Execution0 vs 1

Curious Expedition 2 leans harder on execution: Menu-driven turns - no twitch demands

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Citizen Sleeper

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Curious Expedition 2