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Kingdom Come: Deliverance cover artvsSalt and Sanctuary cover art

Kingdom Come: DeliverancevsSalt and Sanctuary

Kingdom Come: Deliverance leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Salt and Sanctuary leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION6 /10READS2 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION6 /10
Kingdom Come: DeliveranceSalt and Sanctuary

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 6

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads2 vs 2

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization6 vs 7

Salt and Sanctuary leans harder on optimization: Skill tree builds and gear routing

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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Salt and Sanctuary