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Kingdom: New Lands cover artvsNo Man's Sky cover art

Kingdom: New LandsvsNo Man's Sky

Kingdom: New Lands leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); No Man's Sky leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION8 /10
Kingdom: New LandsNo Man's Sky

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

No Man's Sky leans harder on execution: Light shooter and flight inputs

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance4 vs 3

Kingdom: New Lands leans harder on variance: Island layouts and vendor spawns randomise

Optimization8 vs 8

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: New Lands

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