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Evoland cover artvsNecromunda: Hired Gun cover art

EvolandvsNecromunda: Hired Gun

Evoland leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Necromunda: Hired Gun leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION3 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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Execution3 vs 7

Necromunda: Hired Gun leans harder on execution: Wall-running, grapple movement and gunplay set the pace

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 5

Evoland leans harder on optimization: Short, fully mappable progression gimmick

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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