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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup cover artvsRimWorld cover art

Dungeon Crawl Stone SoupvsRimWorld

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); RimWorld leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE7 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 1

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 1

RimWorld leans harder on reads: Storyteller AI is randomised, not adaptive to you.

Variance7 vs 7

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 9

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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