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Jurassic World: The Game cover artvsThe Sinking City cover art

Jurassic World: The GamevsThe Sinking City

Jurassic World: The Game leans Optimization (Systems & Chaos); The Sinking City leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Jurassic World: The GameThe Sinking City

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 2

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 0

Jurassic World: The Game leans harder on reads: Battle rock-paper-scissors vs AI is mostly pattern, barely predictive

Variance4 vs 3

Jurassic World: The Game leans harder on variance: Card packs gate dinosaur acquisition behind RNG

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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Jurassic World: The Game

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The Sinking City