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Clive Barker's Undying cover artvsPayday: The Heist cover art

Clive Barker's UndyingvsPayday: The Heist

Clive Barker's Undying leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Payday: The Heist leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
Clive Barker's UndyingPayday: The Heist

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Clive Barker's Undying leans harder on reads: Horrors follow scripted patterns despite feeling malevolent

Variance3 vs 4

Payday: The Heist leans harder on variance: Drill failures and objective locations shuffle

Optimization5 vs 5

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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Clive Barker's Undying

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