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Hollow Knight cover artvsProject CARS cover art

Hollow KnightvsProject CARS

Hollow Knight leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Project CARS leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION8 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Hollow KnightProject CARS

Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 8

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Project CARS leans harder on reads: Online racecraft against humans adds light positional prediction

Variance1 vs 2

Project CARS leans harder on variance: Dynamic weather injects some session randomness

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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Hollow Knight

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Project CARS