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Defend Your Castle cover artvsThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt cover art

Defend Your CastlevsThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Defend Your Castle leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Defend Your CastleThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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