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Gothic II cover artvsSteamWorld Heist II cover art

Gothic IIvsSteamWorld Heist II

Gothic II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); SteamWorld Heist II leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION4 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Gothic IISteamWorld Heist II

Axis by axis

Execution4 vs 5

SteamWorld Heist II leans harder on execution: aiming shots with ricochet trajectory precision

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

SteamWorld Heist II leans harder on variance: cover destruction and hit-chance randomness

Optimization8 vs 8

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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