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Kingdom: New Lands cover artvsMajotori cover art

Kingdom: New LandsvsMajotori

Kingdom: New Lands leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Majotori leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 1

Kingdom: New Lands leans harder on execution: Just riding and coin-dropping under time pressure

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 4

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization8 vs 7

Kingdom: New Lands leans harder on optimization: Expansion order and economy timing decide survival

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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