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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 cover artvsGuardian Tales cover art

Five Nights at Freddy's 2vsGuardian Tales

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Guardian Tales leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Five Nights at Freddy's 2Guardian Tales

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Guardian Tales leans harder on optimization: Team comps, gear, and puzzle solutions

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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