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Five Nights at Freddy's 2 cover artvsS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl cover art

Five Nights at Freddy's 2vsS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Five Nights at Freddy's 2S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl leans harder on execution: Ballistic gunplay punishes sloppy aim

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 5

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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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl