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Jötunnslayer: Hordes of Hel cover artvsRisk of Rain cover art

Jötunnslayer: Hordes of HelvsRisk of Rain

Jötunnslayer: Hordes of Hel leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); Risk of Rain leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE6 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
Jötunnslayer: Hordes of HelRisk of Rain

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 6

Risk of Rain leans harder on execution: Dodging projectiles and platforming under scaling pressure.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance6 vs 6

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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