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FortifiedvsOrcs Must Die!

Fortified leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Orcs Must Die! leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Fortified leans harder on execution: Third-person shooting between waves keeps hands busy

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 8

Orcs Must Die! leans harder on optimization: Trap placement and kill-corridor economics are the game

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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