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Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup cover artvsYu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories cover art

Dungeon Crawl Stone SoupvsYu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE7 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Dungeon Crawl Stone SoupYu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans harder on execution: Browser-playable turn-based game; no execution axis at all

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance7 vs 7

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization9 vs 8

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup leans harder on optimization: Species/background synergies and god choice form a deep solvable system

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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