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Emily Wants to Play cover artvsFive Nights at Freddy's 2 cover art

Emily Wants to PlayvsFive Nights at Freddy's 2

Emily Wants to Play leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION3 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE5 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Emily Wants to PlayFive Nights at Freddy's 2

Axis by axis

Execution3 vs 4

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans harder on execution: Mask, flashlight, and music box juggling demands fast hands

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance5 vs 6

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans harder on variance: More stalkers, more hidden movement rolls

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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