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Crisol: Theater of Idols cover artvsKilling Floor cover art

Crisol: Theater of IdolsvsKilling Floor

Crisol: Theater of Idols leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Killing Floor leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Crisol: Theater of IdolsKilling Floor

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Killing Floor leans harder on execution: Headshots on zeds, kiting, weld timing

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Crisol: Theater of Idols leans harder on variance: Unknown enemy placements and scares until the island is learned

Optimization6 vs 6

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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Crisol: Theater of Idols

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Killing Floor