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Five Nights at Freddy's 4 cover artvsKeep Talking and Nobody Explodes cover art

Five Nights at Freddy's 4vsKeep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Five Nights at Freddy's 4Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 3

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 leans harder on execution: Reacting to breath audio cues within tight windows matters

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 5

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 leans harder on variance: Random animatronic positions stay hidden behind audio cues

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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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes