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DarkwoodvsWesterado: Double Barreled

Darkwood leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Westerado: Double Barreled leans Variance (Twitch Chaos).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
DarkwoodWesterado: Double Barreled

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 4

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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Westerado: Double Barreled