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Ghostrunner cover artvsHyper Demon cover art

GhostrunnervsHyper Demon

Ghostrunner leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); Hyper Demon leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION9 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
GhostrunnerHyper Demon

Axis by axis

Execution9 vs 9

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 2

Hyper Demon leans harder on variance: Slight spawn timing noise within a learnable structure

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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