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DarkwoodvsThe Church in the Darkness

Darkwood leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); The Church in the Darkness leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
DarkwoodThe Church in the Darkness

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Darkwood leans harder on execution: night-defense reflexes under limited vision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Darkwood leans harder on optimization: barricade economy and routing are learnable

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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