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Dungeon Keeper 2 cover artvsGolden Lap cover art

Dungeon Keeper 2vsGolden Lap

Dungeon Keeper 2 leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Golden Lap leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION3 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Dungeon Keeper 2Golden Lap

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 3

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

Golden Lap leans harder on variance: race incident and weather randomness

Optimization7 vs 7

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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Dungeon Keeper 2

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Golden Lap