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Kingdom Come: Deliverance cover artvsRock of Ages cover art

Kingdom Come: DeliverancevsRock of Ages

Kingdom Come: Deliverance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Rock of Ages leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Kingdom Come: DeliveranceRock of Ages

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 5

Kingdom Come: Deliverance leans harder on execution: Directional sword combat, real timing needed

Reads2 vs 3

Rock of Ages leans harder on reads: Versus humans, anticipating defence placement gives an edge

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

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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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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Rock of Ages