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Five Nights at Freddy's 4 cover artvsUnderMine cover art

Five Nights at Freddy's 4vsUnderMine

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 leans Variance (Systems & Chaos); UnderMine leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Five Nights at Freddy's 4UnderMine

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

UnderMine leans harder on execution: Pickaxe-throw combat and dodging in real time

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

UnderMine leans harder on optimization: Relic synergies and permanent meta upgrades compound

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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