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

EXECUTION4 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Five Nights at Freddy's 2Void Bastards

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 4

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 leans harder on reads: RNG-driven animatronics, not adaptive opponents

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Void Bastards leans harder on optimization: Resource chain planning and technology tree progression are the defining axes

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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