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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Phoenix Point leans Variance (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
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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 7

Phoenix Point leans harder on variance: Body-part hit location and mutation pools drive heavy RNG swings

Optimization6 vs 7

Phoenix Point leans harder on optimization: Research priority, vehicle builds, and faction balance are deeply optimizable

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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